What's a tiger?
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From: A few miles from the airport
What's a tiger?
Just a silly question from the other side of the closed cockpit door.... I have been studying the cabin manual of the airline in which I work, and stumbled upon something I really didn't understand.
The manuel states that cabin crew are not allowed to serve alcohol for escorts to deportees (DEPA) and for tigers? So what is a tiger anyway, surely we are not transporting wild animals
My best guess is that it is some ECAC abbreviation or something. Please enlighten me, I need to know about this tiger business.
Bst rgds
POL
The manuel states that cabin crew are not allowed to serve alcohol for escorts to deportees (DEPA) and for tigers? So what is a tiger anyway, surely we are not transporting wild animals
My best guess is that it is some ECAC abbreviation or something. Please enlighten me, I need to know about this tiger business.
Bst rgds
POL
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From: A few miles from the airport
Thanks a lot for the amusing answers 
I find it very interesting to read the cabin manual, and I can recommend any pilot with too much sparetime to do the same. Great tool for improving CRM.
Flyblue: It's not in the list of abbreviations, but thank you for the tip.
I am flying for a low cost carrier, and none of the CCs' I have asked knew the answer... Guess I will have to ask the author of the manual.
POL
I find it very interesting to read the cabin manual, and I can recommend any pilot with too much sparetime to do the same. Great tool for improving CRM.
Flyblue: It's not in the list of abbreviations, but thank you for the tip.
I am flying for a low cost carrier, and none of the CCs' I have asked knew the answer... Guess I will have to ask the author of the manual.
POL
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Pol,
My guess is that you're working for an airline based in Switzerland where the so-called Tigers are plain clothe policemen paid by the Bundessicherheitdienst, i.e. by tax payers. They are not keen on flashy orange and black stripes but normally carry a leather holster with a heavy metalthing in it, which sometimes turns out to be largely as dangerous as a Tiger bite.
My guess is that you're working for an airline based in Switzerland where the so-called Tigers are plain clothe policemen paid by the Bundessicherheitdienst, i.e. by tax payers. They are not keen on flashy orange and black stripes but normally carry a leather holster with a heavy metalthing in it, which sometimes turns out to be largely as dangerous as a Tiger bite.
