Dlup9 - take it from a pilot then. C Crew are leaving faster than they can hire and almost every flight lately we have senior crew working junior positions. Have had 3 pursers acting as economy crew one night.

They leave because they get worked too hard and treated poorly. The 'adventure' is gone after a year that happens.

You may think your work is difficult in the US but it is nothing compared to EK cabin crew. Your hours and work rules don't come close especially when you factor night flights and ULR flying into the equation.

It is not a career job at EK but one for young souls to come, experience and leave.

Pointing to facebook and other social sites and stating that look "they love their jobs' is misleading. Everyone posts the 'fun stuff' on facebook.

Yesterday's flight...2 pursers, 3 FG1.... The defence rests....

Yesterday, so I was told by a friend, on a Bahrain flight, the cabin crew, (not the flight deck) did a Doha turn first, then stayed on the aircraft and did a Bah turn, with the new flight deck meeting them directly on the aircraft.

Double turn is not new.

It is when not rostered for it. Haven't heard of this for the last ten years. Again, what is happening to the CCs is a harbinger for what is going on through the rest of the company. Can you say Gulf Air. Simple. Those who can leave, will. Those that have few if no options, will stay. And that includes CC and flight deck.

I have not heard of a double turn for years.

Beacuse it is easier to organise for the massive numbers, than trying to place them in company accommodation at the start. The department that organises accommodation is not the most efficient to say the least :\ :ugh:

Perhaps if they took all the paraphernalia of photos, magnets, postcards, pot plants etc off their desks, it might imbue a greater sense of professionalism. What is it they say, clutered desk, cluttered mind? Not sure what that says about their SVP then, his desk is completely empty...........as is his office most of the time!

TOGA

Hope it wasn't a Grade 1 for your sake as only SFS's can operate as a purser. All crew can only ever operate one grade above their own. Pursers can work any. :ok:

Harry