Overwing - in response to your post of lack of safety in loco's, I would just like to say that BA cabin crew do their annual refresher training on a computer, which they can download the questions and answers at home, and practice at home several months before their exams, where all other airlines dont get this 'luxury' and have to read manuals and study hard in order to pass the exam. BA have 150 questions they can practise on, out of which get asked something like 40 out of that 150 on the day. How can this be safe???? do they read manuals??? or just learn the answers???
They dont learn location diagrams and get examined on them. Other airlines do. Safety in NOT comprimosed on any airline be it full service or loco, but loco's have a reputation to keep up and if they have an accident, their name wil be in tatters , hence why safety is their main priority no matter what cost to the company. Do you ever see main carrier cabin crew stop the demo to get pax to be quiet and pay attention??? i think not because their demo's are on video screens and cant be paused once started. Dont think that BA, Virgin or and big name carriers are safer than the loco's because this simply isnt true. Look at how many ryanair / easyjet flights there are every year opposed tp ba/virgin flights per year and see who has more incidents...........Think you will be very suprised.
P.s Your G&T isn't free.......... you paid £20 for it in your ticket!!lol