A question from cabin crew
 

Do you guys ever miss not having half a dozen girls looking after you ???

Freight best kept secret in the world. In a word NO :E

yes i do miss you.
i have to do it instead and i am not so good at it or as good looking

BOAC used to operate their 707-336C freighters with one cabin crew to look after the flight deck. (Yes, honestly!) Initially this was a steward, but with the coming of equal opportunities, stewardesses could have been rostered. What a popular wheeze that would have been!
(However, I now have to report that Mrs. G., a BOAC stewardess at the time, thinks that in fact no stewardess was ever rostered for this duty. Either that, or she's not telling me!)

Miss Cabin Crew ??

You bet! They are:-

A) Prettier than Loadmasters.
B) Better Coffee makers than Captains with shaky hands.
C) Friendlier than old Flight Engineers who call the Captain 'Sonny'.
D) Not as cheeky as most Copilots.
E) Not as smelly as the Travelling Techs.

However:-

One Attendant takes Twice the baggage of the cockpit crew (Collectively)
Two Cabin Attendants make more noise chatting during takeoff than Four Pratt and Whitneys at Max Takeoff Power.
Three Cabin Attendants will take Four times as long to get to the bus after shutdown.;)

It was a life-enhancing experience, RMC.

We learnt to operate a galley.
I'd a go at drag (plastic cups -CC- stuffed up bl -er shirt)
I even shared an hotel room with the flight engineer (disappointing experience :} )
We were thinking of clubbing together to buy a washing machine and operator (no prizes for guessing reqd CV :ok: ) to remain with each aircraft but the company wouldn't go for it.

And not to forget , the wifes of cargopilots think not having a flightattendant serving your husband is great.

Greetings,
Jacob

In the mid 80s when BA were operating 748s on the mail run LGW-LPL-BFS & return. I came across a crew in LPL with a hostie busy serving them coffee.

Well thanks for the replies guys.If these posts are representative of your breed you seem to have more manners than your typical SLF equivalent (horrible generalisation I know but I havn't been doing this that long and suffered all sorts of abuse).

BTW I thought this thread could be of interest?

http://www.pprune.org/forums/showthr...threadid=87566

Can smoke too :D

OOOWWW!!! Im hurt!!!

Cabin Crew looking better than a loadie!!
Yes better than most but better than me!!! I ask you!!!

Must book myself in for a sunbed and have me nails done!!!;)

"Shuperstar", "get a tattoo!"

Here we go!

SAA used to send a young sweetness along to look after the flight deck crew on the A300 freighters. Catering was first class meals too, I believe. I'm told crews used to really look forward to freight flights.