wobble2plank - you carry on believing just what you want to believe.
CFC, sorry but I don't understand what your point is?
Do you actually wish to add to the debate or just knock your head against the wall?
My point is that, throughout this entire affair, BASSA have misrepresented the majority of their membership. If you feel or know differently then please post a polite, sensible and reasoned answer which furthers the thread.
Otherwise you are not doing yourself any favours.
Now, on with the debate.
Runway vacated - you just forgot to mention dealing with the crap onboard IFE system, placating premium pax who have been mishandled by BA, placating many non premium pax mishandled by BA, help in the CW service, etc, etc. And thats just the first few hours of EVERY flight.
...and not always the highest paid cabin crew member on board.
What about the gate staff who have to deal with irate pax, the check in staff dealing with pax with too many bags. The customer service staff and flight connection staff who deal, day in day out, with the 'irate' passengers.
It is part of the job.
As to the poor IFE, come sometimes and look at how our workload in the front goes up when we are faced with some of the harder Acceptable Deferred Defects (ADD) in the aircraft. No complaints as it is what we, as pilots, are paid to do.