Why CabinCrew?

[wirgin blew]

Just wanted to ask all you ladies and gents out there why you wanted to become CC.
Im sure many of you dreamed about it from a young age but what about the rest of you.

Thanks.

[NordicJetSet]

When I was young girl, I never had a dream to become cabin crew. I´ve always loved to travel and it has been my dream to work in the travel industry. I´ve been working as ground crew for about three years, and I´ve learned to love (and hate sometimes :}) the airline business.

Maybe a year ago I realised that I don´t wanna be stuck on the ground, I want to be flying. It would be great to meet new people (crew and pax) and travel to new places. I just think that would be a lifestyle that would suit me well. And I just love flying and I´m even excited to be in a plane on the ground. :D

[fourplay]

I have said it in more than one post on here.... Flight attendant is one of the best jobs you can have.

Just how good very much depends on the employer.

You can work on the oldest crappiest aircraft and it can still be a blast.

The crew you get to play with and the places you get to go... for me personally it beats the Hell out of 9-5 to work and back on the bus... can't bear it!
Cabin crew is not just a job its a lifestyle.
Ever changing, exciting and very forfilling.


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[easternboy]

I became a regional flight attendant so I could spend my nights upline (more like inland in outback Australia) lazing around my 1 star accommodation in exotic locations like DUBBO or WAGGA WAGGA, dining in Fabulous places like the RSL or better still the in-room dining experience of Pizza Hut.

Then we have the quite as a mouse aircraft I fly on (deafness is not out of the question within the next 12 months), add to this the opportunity to deliver an exceptional experience with my peanuts and a cup of water (the new QF Regional dining HA) in our luxury cabin where the aircon doesnt work (thanks to the tech crew directing the air to the flight deck, nice and cool up there), and where the toilet has my room in it then the galley they call my workspace.

We have a great mix of long haul (2 hours on a DASH 8 would be like doing a Singapore/London/Singapoore) and short haul, 35 minute flights to Canberra where if the weather is slightly bad a serious injury is always on the cards.

All in all I wanted to become regional cabin crew for the lifestyle and well have I got exactly what I wished for, it has even exceeded my expectations in true Qantas style.

Now I know all you wannbe's will be green with envy BUT never fear your day will come, all you can do is dream of my life at the moment (just as I do when I go to sleep at night singing the Qantas commercial pretending im onto a 747 to L.A. in the morning).

Oh did I forget to mention the passengers, oh I did what a shame.

[domonion]

I absolutely love flying. I'd been doing it for 3 years up until last Novemebr. I decided to have a break to see if it was the right job, and guess what, 9-5 IS soooo dull! I start flying again next month and i'm counting the sleeps till then!!

[gallie girl]

I didn't really.. kinda fell into it I guess. My best friends sister was already working for the company as a trolley dolly and got me the job. When the FA manager asked if she knew of anyone wanting to fly.. she called me and said "do you want and interview". I was nursing and needed out, I said "yeah sure" when, she said tomorrow, I said OK and found out the following night I was employed and to start within the fortnight.

Like Easternboy, I travelled regional NSW, flying on the exquisite SAAB aircraft. They were very noisy and partial hearing loss has caused me some grief, but I can't sue, they went broke.

With no APU I somehow survived the 47 degree c cabin temp during turnarounds in Broken Hill, and enjoyed pillfering the left over chocolates from the catering.

The lifestyle was the winner out of it all, but the reserve days the down fall.

Sometimes it was like I never left nursing. Vomit, coughing, spluttering, wheel chair pax, baby poo and sometimes adult poo. Quiet often it was like the geriatric express and you felt like getting out and panting a Red Cross on the tail.

And the cabin cleaning. On a good day the guys from the pointie end may help with crossing those belts, wiping tray tables, cleaning seat pockets, but their standard was not always the best. Emptying garbage and changing atlas boxes full of catering and lugging them all 6 kilos of them up steep narrow stairs in high heels, did cause many a spill and twisted ankles.

Rushing the cabin service so you could sit back down and rest (aka BLUDGE) for the remainder of the flight and write a shopping list was also common practice!

At the end of the day I made some great friends, meet some nice people and saw the countryside. It is a job I really enjoyed and would of been quiet happy to remain their for a fare while if some dodgie airline from across the Pacific didn't ruin it all!!!

[NigelsFriend]

After I followed my now ex husband into the UK I was unable to get work in the insurance industry (apparantly was "over qualified" after 3 yrs training :\ ).

Now I am glad - 'cause I love my job, been in lots of places in the world most people dream of seeing. Not every day or destination is rosy/ glam but then never was in the office.

[Doors2Automatic]

I always wanted to become Cabin Crew and have now been doing it for twelve years.

There are good and bad points like any job.

The bad,I miss my wife and two sons,hate jetlag,breathing the potential germs of 300+ passengers,and people who come on the plane to make your life hell because they want to!!.

The good things,the places I see,the great mix of people I have the pleasure to work with,the 99.9% of the passengers I enjoy looking after and sharing their stories,the 0.01% who get on the plane with problems that I can try to help(can't always succeed though)or maybe they've had a bad day at the office so I just give them a double drink, every take off and landing gives me a buzz.If I feel I've earned it I normally meet up with the crew at the end of a 15 hour day for a few cold beers.

There has not been a day in twelve years I have'nt wanted to get out of bed the day of work.

I never take my work home and so I can enjoy my time off with the family.

Another job in the future maybe there is,never say no but I just can't see it.

Whoever reads this will find whatever job they do also has it's downfalls and bad days and I'm sure good.

Well nice to find a thread not slagging off cabin crew and so I will retire and celebrate with a glass or six of good quality Southern Hem red wine.

Look forward to meeting and looking after another 300+ of you for lunch next Monday.

Doors2Automatic.:D

[Anti-ice]

I became fascinated with aviation as a young lad.

My Dad was in aviation , and used to bring home posters of BCAL DC10's and books with Eastern TriStars and Northwest Orient 747s and 757s .
I knew i wanted to be a part of it!

I went to work at Gatwick Airport in Duty Free management ,and flying weemed so glamorous and it was excitiing seeing the crews go for their flights.....

I applied to a Gatwick airline, and loved it from the start - here i am 18 years later ,and i still love it too.

The crew are great fun to be with , you get satisfaction from doing the job well , and the appreciation , and there are often 'special moments' where you go that one bit further for someone who needs you at the time.

There are alot of 'pressing' sides to it.... dreadful hours, delays , bad management etc.... but the crew normally make up for it !!!

Of course, you get to see the world too, which is the jewel in the crown :ok:

[airpilot]

Fourplay,

I like it when you said in your last post that you get to play with the crew or am I just being a pervert.;)