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Qantas Cabin Crew or Pampered Celebrities?
Fussy cabin crew demand better lodgings
February 2, 2004 THEY stay at hotels considered among the world's best -- but Qantas flight attendants have told the airline that's not good enough. They have delivered a raft of complaints about the four- and five-star hotels they stay in while overseas. Single beds, poor-quality sheets and holes in curtains are among their gripes. They have also refused to sleep above traffic lights and recently demanded more English television channels. Travellers can expect to pay hundreds of dollars a night to stay in the hotels Qantas staff regularly enjoy. The Flight Attendants' Association recently won a battle for free access to the gym, at the Holiday Inn in Tokyo. And they forced Frankfurt's sumptuous Mainz Hilton in to order new linen. The hotel was also asked not to give Qantas staff rooms above traffic lights. Other gripes from the association's international division have included: THE lack of English television channels at hotels in Frankfurt and Tokyo; LONG waits for hotel rooms with fridges in Los Angeles; and COMPLAINTS about the food served up at airport restaurants. http://dailytelegraph.news.com.au/st...storyid=835168 |
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Qantas Cabin Crew or Pampered Celebrities?
Can you blame them - most tourists sit on their butts during the
flight and then hava a sleep in. Cabin crew work their nuts off during the flight and have a quick turn around. Paul On Tue, 03 Feb 2004 16:08:09 +0000, zxc wrote: Fussy cabin crew demand better lodgings February 2, 2004 THEY stay at hotels considered among the world's best -- but Qantas flight attendants have told the airline that's not good enough. They have delivered a raft of complaints about the four- and five-star hotels they stay in while overseas. Single beds, poor-quality sheets and holes in curtains are among their gripes. They have also refused to sleep above traffic lights and recently demanded more English television channels. Travellers can expect to pay hundreds of dollars a night to stay in the hotels Qantas staff regularly enjoy. The Flight Attendants' Association recently won a battle for free access to the gym, at the Holiday Inn in Tokyo. And they forced Frankfurt's sumptuous Mainz Hilton in to order new linen. The hotel was also asked not to give Qantas staff rooms above traffic lights. Other gripes from the association's international division have included: THE lack of English television channels at hotels in Frankfurt and Tokyo; LONG waits for hotel rooms with fridges in Los Angeles; and COMPLAINTS about the food served up at airport restaurants. http://dailytelegraph.news.com.au/st...storyid=835168 Unless otherwise stated all references to location refer to Western Australia |
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Qantas Cabin Crew or Pampered Celebrities?
but on the other end the crew gets into a free hotel room and get drunk and
have wild sex parties ... then they accumulate all kinds of contraband and carry it thru airport security and customs w/o anyone troubling them ... "Paulco" paulco@eyeeyenetdotnetdotau wrote in message ... Can you blame them - most tourists sit on their butts during the flight and then hava a sleep in. Cabin crew work their nuts off during the flight and have a quick turn around. Paul On Tue, 03 Feb 2004 16:08:09 +0000, zxc wrote: Fussy cabin crew demand better lodgings February 2, 2004 THEY stay at hotels considered among the world's best -- but Qantas flight attendants have told the airline that's not good enough. They have delivered a raft of complaints about the four- and five-star hotels they stay in while overseas. Single beds, poor-quality sheets and holes in curtains are among their gripes. They have also refused to sleep above traffic lights and recently demanded more English television channels. Travellers can expect to pay hundreds of dollars a night to stay in the hotels Qantas staff regularly enjoy. The Flight Attendants' Association recently won a battle for free access to the gym, at the Holiday Inn in Tokyo. And they forced Frankfurt's sumptuous Mainz Hilton in to order new linen. The hotel was also asked not to give Qantas staff rooms above traffic lights. Other gripes from the association's international division have included: THE lack of English television channels at hotels in Frankfurt and Tokyo; LONG waits for hotel rooms with fridges in Los Angeles; and COMPLAINTS about the food served up at airport restaurants. http://dailytelegraph.news.com.au/st...storyid=835168 Unless otherwise stated all references to location refer to Western Australia |
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In message , zxc
writes THEY stay at hotels considered among the world's best -- but Qantas flight attendants have told the airline that's not good enough. That's because many of hotels in that category are indeed rather poor (especially those in airport or city centre locations). The Cabin Crew suffer from it more, because they are regular users. -- Roland Perry |
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Qantas Cabin Crew or Pampered Celebrities?
Paulco muttered....
Can you blame them - most tourists sit on their butts during the flight and then hava a sleep in. Cabin crew work their nuts off during the flight and have a quick turn around. Paul Let's take a more objective glance at the matter (at least in the object view of one who is self-employed and whose profits at the end of the year depend upon many factors one of which is money I don't **** away on travel expenses... A. With as much time between flights and as few hours as their work rules provide, the *******s can sleep at a Motel 6 and get plenty of rest. B. When the thread count in the hotel linens becomes a concern, it's time for Qantas to hire new aircrew. Hell, half the bloody buggers in Oz don't even use sheets. C. As for sex parties, a "sex party" in Strine is a two week vacation herding sheep. D. Holes in the curtains? Get a sleep mask from the 1st class pax kit. E. bad food in airport resturants? Damn right! It's on purpose, so people won'y drive out there for dinner, fill up the parking lots and generate a lot of trash. The picture below is the smallest violin in the world playing a mournful dirge for the beleaguered Qantas aircrew.... .. TMO |
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On Tue, 03 Feb 2004 14:07:22 -0600, Olivers
wrote: Paulco muttered.... Can you blame them - most tourists sit on their butts during the flight and then hava a sleep in. Cabin crew work their nuts off during the flight and have a quick turn around. Paul Let's take a more objective glance at the matter (at least in the object view of one who is self-employed and whose profits at the end of the year depend upon many factors one of which is money I don't **** away on travel expenses... A. With as much time between flights and as few hours as their work rules provide, the *******s can sleep at a Motel 6 and get plenty of rest. B. When the thread count in the hotel linens becomes a concern, it's time for Qantas to hire new aircrew. Hell, half the bloody buggers in Oz don't even use sheets. C. As for sex parties, a "sex party" in Strine is a two week vacation herding sheep. D. Holes in the curtains? Get a sleep mask from the 1st class pax kit. E. bad food in airport resturants? Damn right! It's on purpose, so people won'y drive out there for dinner, fill up the parking lots and generate a lot of trash. The picture below is the smallest violin in the world playing a mournful dirge for the beleaguered Qantas aircrew.... . TMO Olivers, you seem a bit dyspeptic lately..(that's a long word that I hope means grumpy and nasty.) Something bugging ya? |
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On Tue, 03 Feb 2004 16:08:09 +0000, zxc wrote:
[ Snip ] They have delivered a raft of complaints about the four- and five-star hotels they stay in while overseas. Quite right, too! Single beds, poor-quality sheets and holes in curtains are among their gripes. In a "four- and five-star hotel", I would agree. They have also refused to sleep above traffic lights and recently demanded more English television channels. Presumably, the traffic light thing is about those things that make noise... they often are silenced at night, but cabin crew is frequently trying to sleep during the day so they can work all night... Travellers can expect to pay hundreds of dollars a night to stay in the hotels Qantas staff regularly enjoy. And Qantas pays tens of thousands of dollars to the hotels to accommodate the crews... The Flight Attendants' Association recently won a battle for free access to the gym, at the Holiday Inn in Tokyo. I'll bet Qantas negotiated the access, and the Association "battled" Qantas to negotiate! And they forced Frankfurt's sumptuous Mainz Hilton in to order new linen. I'd bet they didn't. More likely the FA's told Qantas that the allegedly "sumptuous" Mainz Hilton had grotty linen, so Qantas told the Hilton that if they wanted to keep the account, they'd better conform to the standards expected of them. The hotel was also asked not to give Qantas staff rooms above traffic lights. Notice the lack of the words "demand", "forced", etc? I'd bet the issue was that Qantas asked the hotel to give their staff rooms that would be quiet during the day... Other gripes from the association's international division have included: THE lack of English television channels at hotels in Frankfurt and Tokyo; Seems like good feedback from staff to management! LONG waits for hotel rooms with fridges in Los Angeles; and Sounds reasonable! If the hotel won the Qantas contract on the basis of having rooms with fridges, making Qantas staff wait seems like a valid complaint! COMPLAINTS about the food served up at airport restaurants. Sounds reasonable! http://dailytelegraph.news.com.au/st...storyid=835168 Malc. |
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Paulco wrote:
Can you blame them - most tourists sit on their butts during the flight and then hava a sleep in. Cabin crew work their nuts off during the flight and have a quick turn around. Paul Poor little fairies..... We used to stay at roadside motels after working our arses off for long periods of time doing work that would make these little girls keel over and die, and be expected to be back up in a few hours to start all over again. We were too ****ing tired to care about wether the bed was a double, didn't even notice the curtains or sheets, sure as **** weren't even going to think about turning on a TV and would've needed to be on speed to go to a gym. Like I said, poor little fairies..... |
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"Hunter1" wrote in message
... Paulco wrote: Can you blame them - most tourists sit on their butts during the flight and then hava a sleep in. Cabin crew work their nuts off during the flight and have a quick turn around. Paul Poor little fairies..... We used to stay at roadside motels after working our arses off for long periods of time doing work that would make these little girls keel over and die, and be expected to be back up in a few hours to start all over again. We were too ****ing tired to care about wether the bed was a double, didn't even notice the curtains or sheets, sure as **** weren't even going to think about turning on a TV and would've needed to be on speed to go to a gym. Like I said, poor little fairies..... They get to travel and sleep in luxury digs while big strong he-men get flea pits and are too tired to care. Thats lazy fairy capitalism for you. Maybe you should get someone else to negotiate your contract? |
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Qantas Cabin Crew or Pampered Celebrities?
Here are some of the URLs that shows true airline quality.
http://www.airlinequality.com/ http://www.airlinequality.com/Airlines/QF.htm Qantas Site for airline quality http://www.airlinequality.com/Forum/qantas.htm Comments is reference to Qantas staff "Paulco" paulco@eyeeyenetdotnetdotau wrote in message ... Can you blame them - most tourists sit on their butts during the flight and then hava a sleep in. Cabin crew work their nuts off during the flight and have a quick turn around. Paul Have you heard that the tourists paid for their flights and Qantas staff goes for free? They are entitles to have a sleep in and I don't hear about quick turn-around of Qantas staff as many of them have been there for many years. Qantas staff already gets very good hotels in Singapore Hong Kong, London Auckland, Christ Church, Las Angeles, New York and many other countries (4-star and above) and in reality they don't deserve 5-star hotels when they produce 3-star service during their flights. From personal experience as well as many others comments (when you view the airline quality web page), you will notice that their treatment to passengers during their flights are very quite cumbersome. How many night flights (when I cannot sleep during flights) I call for service when to be ignored to a point that I leave my seat to approach them and see them sitting together chatting away at the gallery. Many times they forget the order or simply provide it at the end of the flight. Many passengers complain to Qantas but falls on some deaf ears. It would take someone that has plenty of shares in Qantas, a Qantas Club membership with Qantas Frequent Flyers gold to get anywhere as they treat their business class and first class passengers with royalty. They are pure whimps and I am sure that there would be plenty of air-stewards (both male and female) that would take up the position especially after the collapse of Ansett so before they whinge more, they should give appropriate service before they are considered a better hotel etc. I can understand that they should have a gym in the hotel. "They work hard" ****, that is the biggest wank I have heard. On Tue, 03 Feb 2004 16:08:09 +0000, zxc wrote: Fussy cabin crew demand better lodgings February 2, 2004 THEY stay at hotels considered among the world's best -- but Qantas flight attendants have told the airline that's not good enough. They have delivered a raft of complaints about the four- and five-star hotels they stay in while overseas. Single beds, poor-quality sheets and holes in curtains are among their gripes. They have also refused to sleep above traffic lights and recently demanded more English television channels. Travellers can expect to pay hundreds of dollars a night to stay in the hotels Qantas staff regularly enjoy. The Flight Attendants' Association recently won a battle for free access to the gym, at the Holiday Inn in Tokyo. And they forced Frankfurt's sumptuous Mainz Hilton in to order new linen. The hotel was also asked not to give Qantas staff rooms above traffic lights. Other gripes from the association's international division have included: THE lack of English television channels at hotels in Frankfurt and Tokyo; LONG waits for hotel rooms with fridges in Los Angeles; and COMPLAINTS about the food served up at airport restaurants. http://dailytelegraph.news.com.au/st...storyid=835168 Unless otherwise stated all references to location refer to Western Australia |
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