Another question... the call bell.
Had horrible flight back from Helsinki to Heathrow on Sunday on Finnair... miserable hatchet faced old dears doing the service.
Drinks trolley comes down thru economy approaching our row which is 5 from the back... all of a sudden it disappears! We look around, and crew are in galley stocking up the trolley, or so we thought! Trolley comes back but this time has tea and coffee and shoots off straight past us back to the front of the cabin.
It's now 1 hour 20 minutes since we took off and i've eaten, but had nothing to drink. I look around, everybody else has drinks except our row. So, a little annoyed I ring the call bell to ask what's going on. FIVE MINUTES later stewardess comes along with one of those ''how dare you ring the call bell'' faces and apologises but tries to make out it's our fault for not saying anything. Now getting more annoyed(along with 5 other pax in our row)... I point out that I rang the bell 5 minutes ago and nobody came...
And here's the punchline: She says that there is nobody in the galley and therefore they would not have heard the bell ringing...
Please can somebody tell me that this is bollocks? I'm sure the whole point of it is that it can be heard anywhere in that cabin... was she just patronising me? Anyway I always thought it was good practice when somebody complains (6 people in our row in this case!!) to pile drinks on them... she didn't seem bothered that we weren't happy at all!!
Last edited by atco-matic; 30th May 2002 at 23:12.