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Old 28th Oct 2017, 09:06
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Uplinker
 
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Yes.

Assuming they have not changed significantly since 2005, they are most certainly a 'family' style airline. I don't know if they still do this, but one thing that impressed me was that the whole crew - pilots and cabin crew - all briefed for a flight seated around the same table. In this way there was a very good interchange of information and CRM was excellent. There was no 'us and them', it was 'the crew'. After the basics of the days' flying had been decided, the Number 1 would set a scenario, for example a rejected take-off or an on board fire, and every member of the crew would talk about it and what they would do. Pilots picked up things about the cabin crew duties we didn't know, and vice versa.

They will work you very hard though - I did 870 hours in my last year with them. The pay is not brilliant and those 6 on/2 off duties are killers, (if they still do them), but their training and standards are/were very good.

I thoroughly enjoyed my time with them.
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