Sympathy For Cabin Crew.........

[Swatters]

......On Budget Flights

Having just spent a lovely weekend in Edinburgh via Jet2 from Manchester, I have to say that my heart goes out to the cabin crew for the rabble they have to deal with.

I am sure that party destinations like AMS, PRG & EDI etc... will all be that little more tempting to stags and hens and "Our Lorraines 30th" and the money they save can buy more beer !!!!

The lads on our flight were border line between only just tolerable and police fodder. I may pick a less party destination next time - unless i'm going with the lads, obviously !!:ok:

[tiggerific_69]

fly with a nice relaxed airline such as BA CitiExpress,and you get food and drink inclusive,it isnt expensive and u dont get loud people on your flight!!

[jet2impress]

Ba not expensive???? mmmm???

Flying tomorrow, back friday from MAN-EDI with BA £286.00

Same flight with Jet2 is £98.00! So on BA that sounds like you are actually paying for you food and drink... and it is costing you £188.00! I would be expecting alot at that price!

We can all play the game of 'My airline is better that yours'. The original post by Swatters was to high light the grief that loco cabin crew have to put up with on these party routes, and it is true at times they do have to put up with some s*#t.

:ooh:

[AJ]

BA do get the same rabble on the same routes, but it's limited to about 10% of the total load, not 99% :}

[OZcabincrew]

I don't know how you guys in Europe do it. I would hate to work for an airline that has to deal with idiots like groups of soccer fans or hens groups etc, no thanks! We had a show or two down here in Oz following the day to day operations of UK based airlines, Easyjet and i think the other one was Britannia and the passengers on there were terrible!! I don't know what Britannia are like, but one of the benefits of low cost carriers are of course low fares, but the disadvantage is that everyone and anyone can now afford to fly, including the rabble! Every airline has the odd passenger/s who are a bit crazy, but some airlines just seem to get majority of them, hahahaha.

Oz

[tiggerific_69]

i paid £200 to go from bhx-gla and back in a day with BA but only because i booked last minute,if you book in advance it is cheap and does work out cheaper than some budget airlines ie £49 return bhx-edi/gla inc taxes.but yea,all crews get flack off pax regardless of the airline they work for and the routes they fly.its just one of those things.

[WHBM]

Shortly after Ryanair introduced their photo-id (as opposed to paper-id, like UK driving licence) rule even on domestic flights I showed up photoless, all respectably bsiness-suited, for one of their flights. Servisair check-in said a supervisor would come and speak to me, who turned up to decline me with two heavies from airport security in tow, so presumably they were once-bitten twice-shy with Ryanair's typical pax.

[shoegal]

no staff travel tiggerific?!
how is life in bhx? are you having fun?
i have may fond memories of my time in bhx.

[batninth]

Not just young Stags & Hens, Swatter. I had to share a journey from Dublin to Leeds with a group of drunken 50-somethings who were as bad, if not worse, than the youngsters. Thought that red wine made their antics acceptable. Very well handled by the Ryanair CC - those young "not-Irish" ladies handled the situation with great aplomb.


Like you my sympathies go to all CC on this - you don't deserve it. Ever thought of a vigilante movement, those caped crusaders Super Hostie and her sidekick, TrolleyBoy, who board the planes and deliver justice...now there's a thought.

[SkySista]

Ever thought of a vigilante movement, those caped crusaders Super Hostie and her sidekick, TrolleyBoy, who board the planes and deliver justice...now there's a thought.

LOL!!! That is priceless! You know, it couold become a really cool 'in-flight magazine/comic" - a slightly disguised way of telling pax what is acceptable and what is not. Plus a note of "we have undercover superheroes flying on our aircraft" (like the air marshal one) would keep some of 'em in line.... hehehe :E

[SitgesPerson]

Hey OZ,

that TV show you were talking about is a perfect example of "TRASH TV". If I was producing a show for TV I wouldnt want ANY footage of people behaving themselves or things going right. I would want all the fighting, the arguements, the disgruntled passenegers, makes for better TV than a flight full of people laughing and smiling and drinking coffee!!! I would want pissedup people falling all over the place, arguements with check-in staff and duty managers being tested beyond belief!!!

I have travelled on easyJet on numerous occasions and unfortunately (purely from an entertainment perspective) everything went as smooth as.