Do BA Cabin Crew pull their weight?
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Enough!
ozzy05 & Da Dog - You two are having a private row on another BA thread, and now it has leaked into this thread as well. Fascinating, no doubt for both of you - very tedious for everybody else. Now, either the two of you get a room and work out your primal passion together, or the two of you cease the bickering!!
Either way, it stops now...
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The nub of the issue is quite simple. BA's loyal customers will walk away if things do not improve. The service varies from the excellent to the awful,- and which way it goes is largely down to leadership- the CSD/Purser.
BA is a great employer in most ways and looks after its people well and pays the highest overall rates in the UK. Its people must accept that they have willingly , indeed eagerly, signed up to a job description with all the pluses and minuses that a flying shift job entails for a known set of terms and conditions which may change in detail over time but not desparately ( ie they still remain the best in the UK business and offer a long term career). For them then to spend a lifetime being unhappy with whatever follows, including the not unreasonable demand that they work their backsides off till the day they leave is an absurd waste of a lifetime and makes them pretty miserable individuals. Who is suffering? Them ,- not " the management". To be motivated by how little you can do is an extraordinary way to live a life and what a terrible epitaph at the end of a career " he /she successfully failed to enjoy their working life or make a positive impact on anyone during it"
BA is a great employer in most ways and looks after its people well and pays the highest overall rates in the UK. Its people must accept that they have willingly , indeed eagerly, signed up to a job description with all the pluses and minuses that a flying shift job entails for a known set of terms and conditions which may change in detail over time but not desparately ( ie they still remain the best in the UK business and offer a long term career). For them then to spend a lifetime being unhappy with whatever follows, including the not unreasonable demand that they work their backsides off till the day they leave is an absurd waste of a lifetime and makes them pretty miserable individuals. Who is suffering? Them ,- not " the management". To be motivated by how little you can do is an extraordinary way to live a life and what a terrible epitaph at the end of a career " he /she successfully failed to enjoy their working life or make a positive impact on anyone during it"
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{quote/}Wyler
"I have flown all over the world with many different airlines. BA is definitely the worst. Its almost like the CC are doing you a favour and I find most stand offish as well. Other airlines, especially SIN and Malaysian are far superior and the crew provide an excellent service. However, all is not lost, if you want a real nightmare, fly NZ!"
Wyler(quote)
I can't believe i let someone like you get to me about my grades. You clearly don't have anything but ignorance. BA cabin crew are the most down to earth people although that's probably why you're bashing them.
I worked for 2 years in the BA terminal at manchester, and a recruiter on her said he employs non-snobby people who are kind and pleasant and i agree with him and they are doing a good job because i don't have one bad thing to say about BA[B][COLOR=crimson][B]
"I have flown all over the world with many different airlines. BA is definitely the worst. Its almost like the CC are doing you a favour and I find most stand offish as well. Other airlines, especially SIN and Malaysian are far superior and the crew provide an excellent service. However, all is not lost, if you want a real nightmare, fly NZ!"
Wyler(quote)
I can't believe i let someone like you get to me about my grades. You clearly don't have anything but ignorance. BA cabin crew are the most down to earth people although that's probably why you're bashing them.
I worked for 2 years in the BA terminal at manchester, and a recruiter on her said he employs non-snobby people who are kind and pleasant and i agree with him and they are doing a good job because i don't have one bad thing to say about BA[B][COLOR=crimson][B]
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Got to pull you up on this. BA cabin crew and for that matter those of other airlines are hardly the same as many of the other staff of airlines or civy street. It is an exclusive club and in BA a well rewarding experience. Futhermore it is diferent in having a high per centage of gay men which differs from many other walks of life.
If the recruiter was indeed not emplying 'snobby people' then they were discriminatory and hardly a role model.
If the recruiter was indeed not emplying 'snobby people' then they were discriminatory and hardly a role model.
