CABIN CREW AND SAFETY AND SECURITY BREACHES

Posted on 12/17/2015

At what point should a passenger tell a cabin crew member that they are doing something wrong? I ask the question because of two recent experiences on flights. The first was on a medium-haul flight from Washington Dulles. It was a non-US airline and it was a morning flight, but not early morning.

This is what I saw. A cabin crew member took her seat after the door closed. It was one of those backward facing crew seats, in this case just behind the cockpit door. Almost immediately, as we backed from the gate, she fell asleep. I don’t mean closed her eyes. I mean slumped to one side, asleep. And she stayed asleep through taxi and takeoff and initial climb. She only woke up when the 10,000 feet bell rang and another crew member from mid-cabin came forward. At which point, something else happened.