EK Cabin Crew Resignations.
Just under 150 cabin crew leaving in January. That's approximately 18% PA attrition rate, far higher than the company is used to.
There is now a shortage in every grade. Courses to cover just the attrition (let alone the expansion) are due to start early Feb, but the approval to send the contracts to these ppl has not yet been received..supposedly "in the pipeline" but somehow our senior managers seem to think you can recruit new crew with only a couple of weeks notice; it ain't gonna happen!
So the spiral continues; more work, not enough crew...fatiqued crew, more resignations.
Why are they leaving in the first place?...when you work ppl this hard, issue warning letters for calling sick too often (no such thing as fatique for CC), sneak in illegal patterns because junior crew are too naive or scared to challenge them, and treat 30 year olds like school children, no wonder they are leaving in droves.
Yes, we pilots have our own complaints, but remember the poor cabin crew are having the same if not worse issues, and they don't have the ability to tell the roster clerks that they are simply too tired to go to work.