I was cabin crew for a few years and then managed to very luckily get sponsorship (after10 yrs trying)
I enjoyed cc very much and had lots of fun both on flights and downroute.
Becoming fd was always my aim and am grateful to have achieved it but working aas crew has given me the additional insight as to what goes on behind me so I am very aware of the pressures that apply to the crew that i work with and can hopefuly give what little help that I can.
still miss the gossip though!
Edited cos I just reread your post.
Adavantages:
More money (if your that way inclined but I suppose it helps)
Not treated like a child by managers
Less hours -but doesnt feel like it in right now
Doing my dream job
Happy going to work as Cabin Crew but ecstatic as Flight deck
Parents are more proud than you are
Long term more career options available
Job satisfaction-when everything is t**s up everywhere and absoloute chaos and you get home safe and sound by doing your job right and making the right calls it is a nice feeling thinking I/we did alright there without feeling big headed
Disadvantages:
More responsibility=more stress, night cfu- fecking awful place
Sim check every six months-potentially could lose job if not up to scratch (flying is the one of the few proffesions that you are checked on a regular basis)
Medical check up every year/six months depending on age again could lose job if you fail loads of people are diagnosed diabetic for no reason.
seniority system if you move jobs you go to the bottom so have to wait longer for command or the best aircraft fleets it really is like starting over again
At the moment due to economics the lifestyle is being eroded /pay and conditions but that is the same for cabin crew i guess as well. (pilots wish they were on half the money their neighbours think they earn)!
and finally being stuck for 10 hrs 2ft away from someone in the middle of the night that you dont really like who farts belches has BO no personality whatsover but still thinks thay are gods gift to aviation and the entire female population that inhabits this good earth- thank god for CRM (you can tell them they are a w**ker but you are only doing for the sake of CRM)
But for me all the advantages greatly outweigh the disadvantages
every day no matter how bad the guy next to me smells!
Last edited by fantum farter; 21st August 2002 at 05:51.