BA cabin crew enjoying themselves
 

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Great to read of antics that we got up to in BEA in the 70s are still happening but to send them home to face the sack!
SHAME

Indeed, times have changed in this PC charged world we live in today!Would like to know who "reported" the party crew?After 14 hours in a "steel tube" you gotta have some fun (within limits of course) so you can sleep, or not!

Double standards? Complain about drunk passengers, but not about crew running along a hotel corridor banging on everyone's doors and possibly waking them up?

Nothing wrong with a decent orgy now and again.

Decent? I've been doing it wrong all these years!

After more than one cr@p nights sleep in airport hotels caused by idiots kicking off in corridors and banging on doors I have little sympathy.

There is indeed hypocrisy and double standards going on here. We rightly expect pax to respect the authority of the crew whilst onboard the aircraft and equally rightly ensure that any pax who is disruptive on non compliant is heavily sanctioned.

But when it some to the crew behaving like drunken louts and disrupting other people's rest (including other aircrew no doubt) it's "just letting off steam"? (Never mind that fact that the alcohol involved was "smuggled" off the aeroplane - is that another word for "stolen"?)

They're on the company's time and representatives of the company and the industry. It's entirely proper that this become a disciplinary issue.

I have no doubt that my comments will be met with choruses of "bet you're great fun downroute" etc - I am great fun when it's appropriate but I also know when to keep my head down and behave responsibly and would fully expect to be sanctioned / sacked if I stepped across the line.

OH

It is/was my view that you can have more fun in the room than in the corridor. " Nudge, nudge,wink, wink, say no more!"

Some time ago I walked into the lobby in the early hours of a certain hotel in Cape Town after a night out with colleagues, only to find two of BA finest Essex / Mancunian girls having, what can only be described as a Cat fight a top a grand Piano while I presume there Captain and FO were trying to get them off it. I would love to know how they squared that with the hotel, as there was some damage to the Piano which looked like it could be expensive to repair. Incidentally the Mancunian won on points in my and my colleagues estimation.
Regards
Mr Mac

I would say that they were lucky the local police were not involved; a sacking would be the least of their problems out there.

Certainly hope they do not loose their jobs.............

BlindPew ; Agree. Fun time been toned down since the 70's though by the PC partypoop brigade. I was called in, only once, and advised to moderate but the Fleet Boss was also a Party-animal and we both just fell about larfing. Millions of recall but one springs to mind in BGR Maine where there was a bang on the door & a BA Captain, empty glass in hand, Bottle of whisky in the other and a tooth-brush in his night-shirt pocket exclaimed;" Won't get any sleep next to you lot tonight, so, I thought I would join you !" Marve !

I agree with OvertHawk's post. One thing I just cannot tolerate are inconsiderate idiots who party and make a lot of noise in hotels in the middle of the night, whoever they may be! The sack? No, unless they do it again!

Vandalism? Singapore? - Remember Michael Peter Fay?

Hotels
 

Used to do a 14 hour day ending up in Chicago..as we checked in at mid day and the cabin only had 20 hours off duty there was no chance of a party. Hotel made us wait for 2 hours plus in a corridor before we got the out going crew rooms. Hotel always gave the FO a room adjacent to their hospitality room which partied until the early hours..add six hour time difference. So please don't just slag the crews off.
Our company hotel in Boston was even worse as the toilets were used as a gay playground.. stable doors on the cubicles with two pairs of trousers around ankles and a lot of groaning. Complained to front desk as loos open to public and children...tried 3 languages starting with switzerdeutsch before I realised they were part of the depraved circle.
Spare a thought for the girls in the 70s were sexual assault was part of the job description and accidental coffee pot spillage was the only remedy (along with the frequent crashes and tropical diseases).

Off duty and not wearing company uniform then a paid suspension equal to the number of days before next flight and a warning not to get caught.

If you all buy me a drink sometime, I MIGHT tell you what I saw a Gulf Air crew getting up to in a Hong Kong hotel back in 1989! :oh: :oh: :oh:

Is a no event... they were naked, not wearing any uniform, hence they could even sue the hotel for breaking their privacy.
BA should stay out of it, everybody has is own private life, might give them a reprimand, or someone is saying that everybody that is acting unruly in a pub or in a hotel when not in service should be sacked?

Indeed, I agree with your comments which is why I stated "within limits".


There is a fine line between "fun" and being able to enjoy the evening without disrupting others.

Back in my long haul days what went on down route stayed down route. But then we didn't have social media and other technology, we managed with Kodak Brownie cameras.

​​​​​​And even then, the chances were good the film processing lab wouldn't return the photos and bin them.

I've heard some of those stories (from ex-PAWA cabin crew, not BA), and they are indeed appalling. Those may have been the good old days for the people who were dishing it out. Definitely not for those who were forced to take it.

Including the hotel guests who were trying to get some sleep.........

This crew were on BA business, staying in hotel accommodation paid for by BA. Damn right that BA took an interest.

Lay off them.........just a bit of fun. Don't be such a misery guts.

As I said in an earlier message I trust they do not lose their employment.

In 1989, every layover in Gulf Air was a party........the beach and surrounding bushes in AUH Gulf Hotel only came to life about 0200 local:). Rababa - ah, happy days!!

TFE731 - are you M or S?

7B

"lose", not "loose".

Easy for you to say when you're not in a room next to theirs, trying to get some sleep before your 5AM (or earlier) call!

The age of some of them, dementia, surely:cool:

Agreed...........!!

I don't know how employment works in Alabama, but in England and Wales, gross misconduct is a dismissable offence and running down a hotel corridor, naked, certainly falls under that category. You don't need to be in uniform, if you are representing your company (and checking in as staff would likely meet that test), then it is expected that the behaviour would be appropriate.

What you do, discreetly, is of course your own business, so long as it does not break any laws.

Other people got away with it before and that's okay to me. Young people just like to party.

Bet you are a real "live wire" at a party........!!! Enjoy life, have some fun ... !!