Excellant, I love it!!!

Well done, congratulations and all the best with your new career.

Happy and safe flying.

Purser

Great pics Kabir, the SAS airbus look brilliant!

Purser

I’ve only come across a few cases of genuine air rage. On each occassion we as crew have been able to defuse the situation and all ended ok. I agree with Mongu, how the situattion is dealt with at the time is crucial. You can’t go in all guns blazing and expect nothing to happen. Tact and empathy normally works for me.

What I think we as crew have to appreciate is that we have no idea how the pax is feeling and what has happened to them prior to boarding our aircraft. They might have emotional problems for example. No two pax are the same. Things that might seem trivial to one person are huge to another and before you know it you have an incident that gets out of control.

I think too much alchohol can be a cause for some but I have seen pax stay up all night on a 12 hour flight, drinking constantly then leave the aircraft as though they’d slept the whole flight! Others, one G and T and they start shouting around the cabin. You just can’t tell. There’s a very fine line when it comes to refusing to serve a pax alchohol.

In answer to an earlier question, yes we do have restraing equipment onboard but it is only to be used as a very last resort and only with the Captains permission. In 15 years of flying I have never had to use it.

Fly safe

Speaking as a male, 45 y/o BA long haul Purser that has flown too many transatlantic night flights and should have given up flying years ago (but can’t coz the monies good and the lifestyle’s brilliant), seen cabin crew come in every shape and size…………………give me Kylie in any uniform any day!!!! Yeah predictable I know.

Seriously……every airline has great looking girls and not so great looking! I agree with the makeup thing though, don’t know why some girls need to wear so much, they look great without it. Not so sure about the Hooters Air girls, nice looking girls but the uniform is crap, a bit too Easyjet, no class.

Did anybody see the newspaper article recently about AA having an 80 yearold stewardess! I bet she’s been everywhere and seen everything, she must be a great laugh to work with, I wouldn’t mind doing a trip with her, for the laugh!!!!

Male business pax often tell me that although it’s nice to see pretty faces in the cabin they like to know that there’s someone older in charge, with a lot of flying experience in case anything should occur. By that I don’t mean that anybody younger couldn’t deal with a given situation, of course they can.

Sometimes I think some people aren’t aware of the amount of training that goes into being cabin crew and the amount of knowledge you need to retain in your head as you are often asked about various scenarios and equipment as part of the Purser or CSD’s pre-flight breifing. Some might look a bit bimbo-ish but they aren’t!!!

Still want to see Kylie in a uniform though!!!!!

Purser:D 😀

I don’t know the full details but if the route isnt contributing then why operate it? If the local Chamber of Commerce and business community are not supporting and using the route then BA are not going to run it at a loss, that doesn’t make sense.

The bigger picture is that BA bought Brymon Airways years ago to get their slots at LHR (denied by BA of course). Not long after they moved the PLH and NQY services to LGW to free up the LHR slots for long haul serices they wanted o transfer from LGW. I don’t think they have ever really been interested in the routes and now they have the excuse to drop them.

A shame but I guess thats business!

I wonder if Flybe or Aurigny would be interested?

Purser

I tend to agree with Mongu and Whiskydelta, any airline is at risk from terrorists. An attack against a BA aircraft would be a higher profile and cause a massive worldwide storm, but KQ are equally at risk. Security at NBO is very tight as with the majority of airports but these guys will find a way eventually and I hate to say it, it might be just a matter of time before something dreadfull happens.

Let’s hope they get bored trying!