The cabin crew are often referred to as 'olympic torches'; they travel the world and never go out.
Except to Chinatown maybe.
Very few are 'westernised', nice girls but watch the eyes glaze over when you make a joke or sometimes just attempt conversation. Standards of English not good particularly among the Cantonese and mainland crew. Low salary means they prefer to stay in their rooms and hoard the outport allowances.
Some twenty years ago two of our cockpit crew were sitting in an 'airline' restaurant in Mainz, Germany. A Delta captain came over to them.
'Hey, I bet you guys are Cathay'.
'Yes how did you pick that?'
'You got no women with you and you're bitchin' about your management'.
It hasn't changed.
Last edited by Captain Dart; 8th Jun 2011 at 18:59.