The times of 'glamour' in the cabin are over...
**The glamor of becoming a flight attendant** is long gone. In fact, let's face it: the glamor of flying, in general, has long since passed into history - although there are ** honorable exceptions ** -. Nowadays, those people who serve us in the air still give us the luxury of traveling very often - maybe that's why they ** chose that position ** - but, sadly, there are days when that's just the thing. the only thing that encourages them to keep flying. That because? For all this that we as passengers do, perhaps, without realizing it.
AN AIRPLANE IS A PUBLIC PLACE
Behave on an airplane as you would in any other public place. ** Don't let your child run, ** lie on the ground or scream as if he isn't yours. Don't leave rubbish on the floor, diapers, bottles... don't cut your nails on the seat. Don't listen to music or watch movies as if you were alone. Don't yell and respect the schedules: if it's too early, if it's too late...
WHY DON'T YOU DISCUSS IN THE BANK?
Don't discuss everything. If you are sitting in an emergency exit and you have to carry your luggage for takeoff and landing, it is ONLY for your safety and the safety of others. They don't pay me more for each piece of luggage I ask you to put up in the compartment above. If I tell you to leave your suitcase here and not there, it is because there is no room there or you cannot. Not for pleasure. If I ask you to fasten your seat belt or not to get up before the plane stops... it's all for you. When you go to the bank and they say, "Sign here, please," no one asks, "Why?!" You do it and that's it. Why is everything discussed on a plane?
IT IS EXPENSIVE, YES, BUT...
We are not to blame for food prices In cabin. You know it's expensive. If you don't like it, buy your lunch first, or bring it from home.
WORKING FOR FREE
Most of the delays are not the company's fault (bad weather, driver strike, lousy handling). We don't enjoy delaying flights or, once boarded, not leaving. If you are late, so are we. . And 90% of the crew members are paid by the hour of the flight (the time from when the plane takes off and the plane lands). I mean, a delay means working for free. A little empathy.
Yes, food on board is expensive; they know it too
'AND HE HAD A HEART!'
The case: the typical old lady who tells you to put her suitcase up in the overhead compartment after having loaded it with 20 kilos. If I climb it and hurt myself, it's not an accident at work; the company does not take responsibility, because I have done something that does not correspond to me. WE CANNOT CARRY BAGS . So we put up with the lady and the passengers around us looking at us as if we had no heart. Multiply the number of times a day they ask you for it by the days in a year... If you can't handle your suitcase, bill it. We are not slaves.
INTERNAL THERMOSTAT
go prepared for get hot and cold. Setting the temperature for 200 people is very difficult. Also, it doesn't go with a thermostat. Save yourself the typical complaint of "it's cold" or "it's hot", because you are not alone in the tube.
LINGUA FRANCA
We don't have to know every language of the country we're going to. English is universal or not?
PUNISHED WITHOUT FLYING
Inside an airplane we are the authority: respect us. If you speak badly to us, yell at us or insult us simply because you have missed your connecting flight, you may be left on the ground (and even worse if you record it and then upload it to the internet).
YOUNG TIMES
If you are an adult outside the plane, you are also an adult inside. You don't have to call us if the person in front of you has reclined the backrest and bothers you, or if he is giving you the sun and you want him to lower the blind. Wouldn't you do it yourself in any other situation? Do it on the plane too. We are not at school.
HUMAN, AFTER ALL
The low cost have brought the plane as a means of transport closer to all social classes and like everything, it has its positive and not so positive part. And not only because of the treatment of the passenger to us, but also in terms of conditions and salary. Basically, I would like to tell passengers to treat us as they would like to be treated; we are also people, and we are there for them. The problem is that they would only realize that if something ever happened and we had to get them off the plane, but of course, surely, if that happens, let's all die (laughs).
Remember: we are not at school...