Cabin Crew Ratios-The Kuwait Experience
The following is an extract from the Kuwait CAA web site
"For example, the number of cabin crew members necessary on any particular flight is normally related to the number of passengers – such are the international safety standards. But Kuwait DGCA policy requires there be at least one cabin crew member per main exit door. So, in the unlikely event of an emergency there is always someone to guide and assist passengers to the safest and nearest exits."
It makes you wonder if CASA has forgotten that it is funded by the public and is not an arm of IATA the airline trade body.
Suggest to those that you care about that they make a submission to the NPRM asking CASA:
How do the proposed changes to the legislation provide an equivalent level of safety?
How has CASA demonstrated that they can ensure that 1:50 has an equivalent level of safety?
Suggest they tell CASA the retain the current 1:36 ratio and to cancel all the dispensations.