Tea ,coffee or spanners?
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Tea ,coffee or spanners?
Rumour has it that a certain well established UK airline has offered its maintenance personnel the opportunity to be cabin crew during the peak summer season
.Would this mean that aircraft return from flights with less B defects than when they left and that AOG is now a defunct concept?
.Would this mean that aircraft return from flights with less B defects than when they left and that AOG is now a defunct concept?
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Would that be a good/better way of restricting engineers working hours?
Or would the poor engineers be expected to work during the flight (instead of some cabin crew?) and then between flights, and then work during the next flight - and so on, for the whole day/night/day shift?
And taking the previous Point - would they be allowed to do the Pre-flight Passenger Briefing "Dance"? Or even better - to do the PA speech from an LAE's point of view?
Or would the poor engineers be expected to work during the flight (instead of some cabin crew?) and then between flights, and then work during the next flight - and so on, for the whole day/night/day shift?
And taking the previous Point - would they be allowed to do the Pre-flight Passenger Briefing "Dance"? Or even better - to do the PA speech from an LAE's point of view?
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I heard also they get an ATPL.
With the technical background , it takes only 5 days (less than A&P) , according to the rule: When flying would be difficult, engineers would do that.......
So after TO, AP on and than the service, Landing manual, after that the service check, and offcourse U safe money for they company, all that for 30% less salary ...............
C'mon buddy, who wants to have a greasy engineer serving drinks ? He knows the difference between oils, but Chablis or Chardoney ............
BTW, do they get also such a fancy hat ?
Good luck , I've an medical attest , due to unbalance in my feets, I can't go with drinks in my hand, everytime spilling ..............
With the technical background , it takes only 5 days (less than A&P) , according to the rule: When flying would be difficult, engineers would do that.......
So after TO, AP on and than the service, Landing manual, after that the service check, and offcourse U safe money for they company, all that for 30% less salary ...............
C'mon buddy, who wants to have a greasy engineer serving drinks ? He knows the difference between oils, but Chablis or Chardoney ............
BTW, do they get also such a fancy hat ?
Good luck , I've an medical attest , due to unbalance in my feets, I can't go with drinks in my hand, everytime spilling ..............
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From: UK
C'mon buddy, who wants to have a greasy engineer serving drinks ? He knows the difference between oils, but Chablis or Chardoney ............
A good old cup of "NATO Standard" and a chat about matters technical would be a far better way to spend a flight than looking at the tat in the duty-free catalogue.
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From: london
It would certainly be entertaining to see a few bolsy engineers "interfacing" with the great british public, bring it on i say
ps which airline has come up with this great idea?
ps which airline has come up with this great idea?
Last edited by simonchowder; 19th April 2009 at 11:10.
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Not a new idea. The world's favourite have been doing it for years. Know of a an ex BA Handler who is now BA Cabin Crew at LGW, and loving it. I Flew on BA to CDG a few years ago and the Cabin Crew in the jump seat opposite me was as a Flight Engineer.
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I'm wondering if for the first time ever, I might get a decent cup of tea on certain airlines
and he wants TEA ????
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what a joke man .engineer as cabin crew and when company want to save more money then they will made them baggage handler and even worst case they may have to work as cleaner.and do every engineer so smart handsome playboy that company will place them as cabin crew and if passangers say some really bully thing can we all hear that just like this ?
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It used to be like this in South West Airlines, everybody was expected to lend a hand if he had nothing more important to do, so if an engineer or pilot had nothing to do in his own job, he would toss luggage, if a hostie had a few idle hours on the ground, she would help out with the check-in crew.
But they all saw the result on their bank account at the end of the year, since the company would pay a percentage of their profits to the staff as a bonus.
Don't know though if it still works like this.
But they all saw the result on their bank account at the end of the year, since the company would pay a percentage of their profits to the staff as a bonus.
Don't know though if it still works like this.
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Originally Posted by born1987
... and if passangers say some really bully thing can we all hear that just like this?
born1987:
Some of our Cabin Crews already clean their own aircraft! We also operate flights that go out of the country for weeks on end, and all the crew muck in together to get whatever jobs are necessary out of the way so that the aircraft can depart on the next leg on time. It's called "Teamwork".
Last edited by Ten West; 20th April 2009 at 21:19. Reason: Cabin Crew reference removed to prevent FlapsForty overspeed.