BA Cabin Crew Strike

[The Clamp]

I applied for cabin crew many years ago and fell at the first hurdle. Cabin crews main role is the safety and well being of the passenger, in my ignorance I answered the same as your opinion, customer service. I have friends who are cabin crew and as well as being fluent in other languages than English are also medically trained. The job is not as glamorous as people think, how many times do you want to go to New York, a girl I know sits in the hotel watching a film on an overnight stop as she's bored with going out.

You're right. Showing my ignorance there.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

I'd like to repeat the CEO is a short-arse, a cock and has a stupid name.

 

[The Spanish]

Good points

also BAs evacuation at LAS recently

 

[Rugrat]

I am sorry, but they are the risks of standby travel, you can't complain if you are stranded.

I assume these people checked the loads before they went? considered LA or another airport?

I'm not complaining nor do I know if they checked loads, which as you know can change right up until the flight closes less than an hour before departure. All travel benefits are standby as I assume you know, even though a flight might be confirmed beforehand

I was merely responding to the point made "add several thousands of £'s of staff travel benefits". For cabin crew particularly, who generally have low seniority I would question if the benefit was worth very much at all, let alone thousands

 

[Ernest]

Virgin pilots latest to take industrial action and work to rule over Christmas holidays

 

[goldstone]

16k is a bollocks wage. And the CEO of BA is a complete cock. Fair play, and good luck, to them.

They knew the salary when they joined so no idea how they can justify strike action just because down the line they have decided it's not enough??

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

They knew the salary when they joined so no idea how they can justify strike action just because down the line they have decided it's not enough??

Whatever

 

[AK74]

I'd like to repeat the CEO is a short-arse, a cock and has a stupid name.

Minor point of correction. Alex Cruz is BA's CEO. Willie Walsh heads IAG (the parent company).

Agree that Walsh IS a cock of the lowest order.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Ok sorry mate, thought you were alluding to the fact that the figures were 10 years ago and thus a lot more now. I know it's a thread about a job most of us don't rate and find it a glorified holiday, but this is an indicator that people just can't live on these kinds of poor wages, yet we all still want to fly to Berlin for the same price it costs to get to Gatwick on the National express, something is wrong with pay in our society and it's only going to get worse.

It strikes me as a decent and valued profession populated by very nice multi-lingual people. Apart from pure snobbery why don't people "rate" it?

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Minor point of correction. Alex Cruz is BA's CEO. Willie Walsh heads IAG (the parent company).

Agree that Walsh IS a cock of the lowest order.

 

[Captain Sensible]

It strikes me as a decent and valued profession populated by very nice multi-lingual people. Apart from pure snobbery why don't people "rate" it?

I don't know, I certainly do. I think it is a snobbery aspect. Something I heard yesterday was that in the BA case, other departments in BA have been offered rises. It makes no sense. If I buy a ticket for BA I don't care about some advertising manager in the headquarters, but I do care about the person that is going to open the door of the plane and help get my family out in an emergency. I think in most of these cases (not necessarily the BA one) your snobbery comment could be attributed to the way some companies look at their front line employees. Front line employees the canon fodder.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Ground staff are striking as well.

"Baggage handlers down suitcases as Britons get ready for wave of strikes. Airport staff join BA crew, Virgin pilots, Post Office workers plus train drivers and conductors in announcing industrial action"

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news...t-ready-for-wave-of-strikes?INTCMP=dis_231472

 

[hampshirebrightonboy]

Minor point of correction. Alex Cruz is BA's CEO. Willie Walsh heads IAG (the parent company).

Agree that Walsh IS a cock of the lowest order.

And Alex Cruz, what's he like?

 

[Captain Sensible]

And Alex Cruz, what's he like?

Was appointed by Walsh and the Parent IAG I assume?

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Was appointed by Walsh I assume?

I'll err on the side of caution and presume he's a cock as well

 

[AK74]

And Alex Cruz, what's he like?

Spanish. Likes tapas (probably).

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

And Alex Cruz, what's he like?

Bad employee and customer relations seem to follow him like a bad smell


Alex Cruz's Vueling has an appalling customer satisfaction track record. It has its own dedicated Facebook page titled "Vueling What Is Wrong With You", for irate customers to let off some steam.

It has also been then target of complaints from its own cabin crew and union over a failure to properly clean aircraft in a constant rush to turnover flights, leading to "unhealthy" conditions on its planes. Staff also voiced concerns over Vueling's aggressively reduced baggage policy to compete with Ryanair, which led to confrontation with passengers.

A consumer group called Reclaimer has recorded more than 5,300 delays of over 45 minutes at Vueling, and more than 200 flight cancellations during July and August, bringing the number of passengers affected to more than 968,400.

In one headline-grabbing incident, a ten-year-old girl spent seven hours alone at Valencia airport due a delayed Vueling flight on July 30. The complainants said Vueling has ignored them and they are threatening to take the airline to court.

Vueling now serves more than 17 million passengers a year. Of course British Airways is a totally different animal where things like that simply don't happen. Mind you, they don't seem to happen at Ryanair either, which operates similar volumes.

 

[BensGrandad]

Probably classed as sexist but a few years ago BA always had good looking dolly birds as cabin crewe but there seems to have been a change and they now have a number of older stewardesses who have past their best before glamour days.

 

[The Spanish]

Probably classed as sexist but a few years ago BA always had good looking dolly birds as cabin crewe but there seems to have been a change and they now have a number of older stewardesses who have past their best before glamour days.

Would that change simply be time?

 

[BensGrandad]

I may be wrong but it seemed as if they were moved to other duties when they reached 30.