PPRuNe Forums - View Single Post - AF422 Emergency Landing Azores
View Single Post
Old 7th Mar 2012, 14:54
  #38 (permalink)  
Dg800
 
Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: Milano
Age: 53
Posts: 460
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
It's my assumption that this does NOT extend to the flight attendants....?
And you would be absolutely correct in that assumption. There is no requirement, AFAIK, for flight attendants to attain any ICAO proficiency level whatsoever, as they are obviously not part of the flight crew and could just speak an obscure Chinese dialect as far as ICAO is concerned. I'm sure that is actually the case for many f/a in mainland China.

Personally, when I travel to any country where English (or German, or Italian) is not spoken as an official language, I do not expect anybody to be able to speak English (or German, or Italian) just because it would please me if they did. I wouldn't also claim that "no information was given" just because I am not able to understand the language the information was actually given in. That would be a bit too egocentric even for someone as myself.

Cheers,

DG800
Dg800 is offline