Positioning crew beware
Of course, while the airline says business class pax CAN have 2 bags, there's complications if security say they can't. Especially when we know that the whole problem at LHR is down BAA's TOTAL MANAGEMENT STUPIDITY AND INCOMPETENCE, for which the travelling public has to pay hard cash. For such stupidity, there should be mass management sackings. In Japan, with management shown up as so incompetent, there would be expectations of hari-kiri.
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I actually understand exactly what original poster is talking about.
A solution would be to travel business class but I can't see the company concerned doing that.
When we position on an airline to X in uniform, the chances are that we're going to pick up another aircraft and do a few sectors and end up somewhere quite far away from X. If the bag that has been checked in gets lost, how on earth is the airline going to get it to us? Our plans change very quickly and to be without your bag for 5-6 days just isn't on.
We have to travel in uniform so if our bag is lost we can still work but tough luck regarding rest and the other days.
Even if the airline (and 95% of the time they do) get it right, to wait up to 30 min to collect the bag does impact on our ability to get to the aircraft to do our next flight.
A solution would be to travel business class but I can't see the company concerned doing that.
When we position on an airline to X in uniform, the chances are that we're going to pick up another aircraft and do a few sectors and end up somewhere quite far away from X. If the bag that has been checked in gets lost, how on earth is the airline going to get it to us? Our plans change very quickly and to be without your bag for 5-6 days just isn't on.
We have to travel in uniform so if our bag is lost we can still work but tough luck regarding rest and the other days.
Even if the airline (and 95% of the time they do) get it right, to wait up to 30 min to collect the bag does impact on our ability to get to the aircraft to do our next flight.
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God you guys dont half like having a pop at a collegue given half the chance. Why oh why do pilots get worked up over the amount of cabin bags after all your not sitting with them are you, if you were cabin crew then god yes you must hate the stuff.
Secondly as positioning crew on another airline where u cant use there crew baggage u need to carry on bags (small flight case, and a nightstop bag) there is nothing worse than the airline loosing your bagwearing one shirt of a week and one pair of shreddies. After all we all know how many bags go missing dont we.
I travel both KLM and BA with 2 crew bags never once had a problem, its nice to see airlines looking out for fellow workers even though you may not work for them.
My advice is if they want to check a bag in nicely explain that it hold your uniform with u cant aford to loose and if they want to tag the bag no probelm but can u post it down the shoot at the gate, u know the bag is going to get on well hopefully.
Good luck with the bag issue. For god sake guys stop beating each other up for one minute and try helping each other after all its so nice when someone cares. What goes around comes around!!!!!
Secondly as positioning crew on another airline where u cant use there crew baggage u need to carry on bags (small flight case, and a nightstop bag) there is nothing worse than the airline loosing your bagwearing one shirt of a week and one pair of shreddies. After all we all know how many bags go missing dont we.
I travel both KLM and BA with 2 crew bags never once had a problem, its nice to see airlines looking out for fellow workers even though you may not work for them.
My advice is if they want to check a bag in nicely explain that it hold your uniform with u cant aford to loose and if they want to tag the bag no probelm but can u post it down the shoot at the gate, u know the bag is going to get on well hopefully.
Good luck with the bag issue. For god sake guys stop beating each other up for one minute and try helping each other after all its so nice when someone cares. What goes around comes around!!!!!
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For some reason the Edit function won't take the rest of my post...
However, the biggest risk is that if our company call us and want us to get off.(As does happen occassionally). Our checked in bag must also come off. That's going to cause at least a 30 min delay. Some how I can't see the airline and other passengers being happy with that.
What causes the delays at Heathrow is people not reading the signs and getting themselves prepared. ie over coats and jackets off, things out of pockets and the like. What would also help is longer "roller runs" so you can get your bag onto it while stripping off and dragging the laptop out.
I bet the queues would run a lot faster.
Oh, and employ more people.
However, the biggest risk is that if our company call us and want us to get off.(As does happen occassionally). Our checked in bag must also come off. That's going to cause at least a 30 min delay. Some how I can't see the airline and other passengers being happy with that.
What causes the delays at Heathrow is people not reading the signs and getting themselves prepared. ie over coats and jackets off, things out of pockets and the like. What would also help is longer "roller runs" so you can get your bag onto it while stripping off and dragging the laptop out.
I bet the queues would run a lot faster.
Oh, and employ more people.
