With the new changes imposed, during the safety demo on the 747, there are now no crew covering doors 5. They are standing at the front of E zone.
During start up and taxi when generally there is a higher probability of things going wrong like an engine fire, why have BA decided to leave these doors unguarded? A recent point of case was the Phoenix evacaution which occurred just after start up. If crew are at the front of E zone, they would be unable to reach the doors at the back if there was an emergency evacuation due to panicking passengers blocking the aisles.
This is not the first time BA have compromised safety to reduce crew. They and one other airline (KLM I think), were the only two to deactivate the emergency exits at 3 left and right on the 747-100's and 200's.
Last edited by Fume Event; 23rd Nov 2009 at 18:21.