BMI captain has passenger arrested for peeing
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TRSS,
I am required to be onboard for safety reasons, but if my job is just about safety, what's this stuff I keep hearing about providing a service on board? Perhaps at your airline such service is minimal, but at mine it happens to be an important part of the job. Not as high a priority as safety related duties, which I have already said, but still very important.
I would suggest that the flight deck door gives you a very one-dimensional view of the cabin crew job.
I am required to be onboard for safety reasons, but if my job is just about safety, what's this stuff I keep hearing about providing a service on board? Perhaps at your airline such service is minimal, but at mine it happens to be an important part of the job. Not as high a priority as safety related duties, which I have already said, but still very important.
I would suggest that the flight deck door gives you a very one-dimensional view of the cabin crew job.
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ok, well I think everyone should just calm down. If you have a look at how the story has gone on where it was originally spotted, apparently there was more to this tale.But there is some sort of legalcase going on, which someone seems to know something about but is not saying. Or the whole thing could be just a shaggy dog story that someone invented just to get a reaction. And if that was the case, it worked well,didn't it?
There aren't many grey areas when it comes to safety and security, but we can use common sense, as can 99.9% of pax.
But we don't know what really happened, shame though, I would be very interested to know the full facts.
There aren't many grey areas when it comes to safety and security, but we can use common sense, as can 99.9% of pax.
But we don't know what really happened, shame though, I would be very interested to know the full facts.
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I'm just leaving to pick up an AF flight, I'm hoping I don't come across crew such as the 'Real Slim Shady', fortunately my years of flying illustrate to me that such individuals are the exception.
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The Real Slim Shady is taking a short rest from posting on this thread. Please could we all try and calm down a bit, or at least seek a way of posting immoderate views in a moderate fashion.
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I must say that after reading some of the posts here I now understand why on the odd occasion I get SLF that hold me in some sort of contempt........they obviously have been on an a flight crewed by some of the posters here that claim they are crew!
I only say that because strangely this exact situation happened to me yesterday. We were taxiing out of LHR....very slowly as usual cos its a busy airport. A little 5 yr old needed to use the loo, his Dad asked, I asked him to hang on a minute whilst I checked if it was ok. I called the boys up front, the Captain told me we were in a long queu. So now he knew that we were unsecure he would control the a/c accordingly. (by the way I am not sure why a catering truck would be roaming around the holding point to cause a/c to slam on brakes). The little lad used the loo and sat down without any need of armed police to stampede the a/c and drag the perp off to the nearest gulag. An event not worthy of any comment had it not been for this thread.
Anyway, I'll let some of the 'crew' posting here get back to winding up the SLF and treating the seat belt sign as one of Mr Brown and Blairs new anti terrorist laws to keep us all safe in our beds at night and should therefore be upheld vigorously and without prejudice, and even used to spy on folk applying for school places for their children
..... Authority is a gift that some people have no place having.
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I only say that because strangely this exact situation happened to me yesterday. We were taxiing out of LHR....very slowly as usual cos its a busy airport. A little 5 yr old needed to use the loo, his Dad asked, I asked him to hang on a minute whilst I checked if it was ok. I called the boys up front, the Captain told me we were in a long queu. So now he knew that we were unsecure he would control the a/c accordingly. (by the way I am not sure why a catering truck would be roaming around the holding point to cause a/c to slam on brakes). The little lad used the loo and sat down without any need of armed police to stampede the a/c and drag the perp off to the nearest gulag. An event not worthy of any comment had it not been for this thread.
Anyway, I'll let some of the 'crew' posting here get back to winding up the SLF and treating the seat belt sign as one of Mr Brown and Blairs new anti terrorist laws to keep us all safe in our beds at night and should therefore be upheld vigorously and without prejudice, and even used to spy on folk applying for school places for their children
..... Authority is a gift that some people have no place having. 6
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Not wishing to nit-pick, just clearing up any confusion.
It wasn't at the holding point when the catering truck appeared, the aircraft was taxiing while the cc were in the aisles during the playing of the safety video. The sudden stop actually lifted them off the floor and some of them landed on their backs.
6chimes, I think this is a non-event really too. we all know pax should be strapped in while the sign is on.The common sense comes in when the pax knows this also but asks is there any chance etc.we find out from the flight deck, and a decision is made.
And if we find out there really isn't time, sometimes it's not what we say but how we say it. We do not "lose face" just by being polite and friendly. I am embarrassed by some of my colleagues, just sometimes.
I know with my son, when he needs to go, he REALLY needs to go.But it will be the last thing we do before we get on the plane, and I'll get him to go during boarding.So far so good...
It wasn't at the holding point when the catering truck appeared, the aircraft was taxiing while the cc were in the aisles during the playing of the safety video. The sudden stop actually lifted them off the floor and some of them landed on their backs.
6chimes, I think this is a non-event really too. we all know pax should be strapped in while the sign is on.The common sense comes in when the pax knows this also but asks is there any chance etc.we find out from the flight deck, and a decision is made.
And if we find out there really isn't time, sometimes it's not what we say but how we say it. We do not "lose face" just by being polite and friendly. I am embarrassed by some of my colleagues, just sometimes.
I know with my son, when he needs to go, he REALLY needs to go.But it will be the last thing we do before we get on the plane, and I'll get him to go during boarding.So far so good...
