Originally Posted by
Maus
The "old us and them mentality" was not purely an LHR thing. I agree with you that it was almost solely a Longhaul thing as the shorthaul pilots work as hard as the cabin crew and there is more face-to-face contact, resulting in a better feeling of 'comraderie'.
There is a better feeling of cameraderie, but I can assure you the EF crew don't work anything like as hard as the Airbus crews. Lots of Compass and CAT turnarounds, no fixed links, the famous one out- standover - one back HEL trip, a third of all trips involving a single sector day. Hmmmmm
I still don't believe you about the allegations of SEP instructors at Gatwick. It certainly wasn't taught in my day, and anything in the rumour mill makes its way to the BASSA website pretty quickly - and that would be far too juicy for people to keep to themselves...
Which is part of the problem. You never get told anything bad by BASSA. I tried to tell somebody about the LRBL being built in the wrong location recently, they called me a liar! You do know about that, don't you? I don't blame the crew for the lack of feedback, it's weak IFS management who don't like to feed anything negative back. As for the no first class food thing, it's all over the BASSA forum. Have a dig in the SFG forum.
