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Old 8th Dec 2010, 22:00
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I'm no supporter of BASSA, but with all due respect VWO you are talking about something of which you know nothing. You do not regularly work throughout the night. You do not suffer the long term effects of jetlag, dehydrating atmospheres and increased radiation levels. You, like millions of people work hard, well so do cabin crew.

If you work a 40 hour week and work for 48 weeks a year you work for 1920 hours per year. Crew duty hours - remember the 900 number is flying hours only - are limited by law to 190 in a 28 day period. Take off 6 weeks leave and this is 1985 hours a year = effectively the same amount of duty as the 40 hour per week person without the additional environmental stressors that cabin crew have to deal with.

So perhaps you would like to do the maths - I have deliberately left out the commute to work as we all have to deal with that, you are not unique there. We all choose where we live and how close that is to work. Your inclusion of your travel plans is irrelevant to the argument, many people commute long distances to work, cabin crew included.
We all take jobs based on travel and work time. Lots of people work hard, Cabin Crew are nothing special. If you don't like it, get another job!! It's what the rest of us do.
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