To quote one of the posts
"Ah, MAN, by far the most hated sector for pax and crew
Everyone tries to get out of doing the sector, not just because the pax always drink all the bars dry and then get aggressive, but because the only crew who want to do the flight are Brits going home/seeing friends and end up being lazy leaving the rest of the crew to pick up the slack. Hence everyone (apart from party crew) is miserable"
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I have only ever flown J so I cannot really comment...
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