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"These people (whose work is considerably more demanding than that of cabin staff but are paid less)"
Ivan , this article is under some strange misapprehensions thinking this to be true.
How many years have they operated as cabin crew????
Or was their transfer to crew not accepted???
We both work in very different environments and our common ground is the passengers we serve.
We often work for 12 hours (Moscow and back) without even 1 minute for a break in that time as cabin crew.
Like yourselves under Future size & shape we have lost much needed crew onboard (at least 1 off each a/c).
We have many ground staff who have just come over to cabin crew and they are a great group of people.
Also cabin staff have out of pocket downroute allowances to account for.
I think what they mean't to say is that they work equally as hard as cabin crew - but tend to get more flak- > although we do have their company for the next 1-14 hours .
And believe me , it is hard work.
Ground staff do have statutory breaks in the day (we don't) and my mate (ex cabin crew) who's on CS says it not as bad as made out on here.
regarding cabin crew vs f/o's pay , yoiu would of course be comparing a senior cabin crew member with many years renumeration with a pretty new pilot.
Cabin crew start on £9,100 , and we all get the same allowances.