Virgin Atlantic: Up in the Air - ITV 9pm
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Yup! It's another airline/airport show for those of us who like those sorts of things.
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If I was a boss of a company like that, I would be rewarding those long term employees. I would want to reward loyal employees like that. (With more than a poxy kiss)
There is no way that materials (moulded plastic) + labour + a healthy profit can ever = 200 grand.
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And they charge you £1 per stool!
Nice to see they actually supply one now instead of having to bring your own bucket.
Not that they are focusing on any of the men, its still very much a female role.
At least age doesn't seem to be as much of a factor any more, pleased the older lady got the job.
If I was on a flight I would be more interested in the service and not how sexy the person dealing me was or what their age, sex or sexuality was.
It's strange as yes the tail and logo details feature red, their interiors are all that purple colour.
EDIT: Sorry it's not purple, it's black cherry!
Yes the BA one was a right snob-fest. Stuck up people looking down their noses at everyone.
I do think red can be a very smart colour, but I don't like that weird purple shade they also use.
The men would look really smart with a white shirt, red tie and black waistcoat with red backing.
I think it will. I bet there are also a lot of extras the employees get.
Yes that part looks nice.Especially Virgin and their long haul flights.Big expenses account.I suppose if you only do London to Edinburgh every day your salary would be higher.
Yes but think of the price of all those stop-overs on expenses. (Hotel rooms and food and drinks paid for, so a lot of money is not needed.) So if going places is your idea of a great life, then money is not everything.
Pay doesn't improve significantly with experience. There's just so much demand for positions that the airlines can pay rubbish with the perks on offer. Staff churn is easy to manage when you have hundreds of applicants chasing one job opening,
The cabin crew have an awful lot of responsibility for such rubbish money.
But supply and demand and all that.You could tell when they said the ad was only open for a few days and they were overwhelmed by applications.
I doubt they want their staff to leave after a year or a couple of years after the amount of work that goes into the training process. That alone must cost the company a fortune.
Its not like a supermarket where they give basic training on tills, stocking etc and can easily train a single person or a group of people at one time.
With flight attendants, they can't just hire one person at a time and give them full training, so in this job, staff churn isn't easy to manage.
In the 70s a former colleague got 90% discount on a trip to Australia as his daughter worked for an airline.
I tend to choose my destination first, then the airline if more than one goes there, or if there's a choice of routes/stop overs; (Qantas from Kuala Lumpur to London has a long enough change at Dubai for a quick trip up the Burj, with the bonus of being an A380)
Virgin has a more relaxed style but equally high standards.
Update, I'm watching on +1 and annd her hair looks quite nice now
She is beautiful I think. There are a lucky few women who age well, I think it has something to do with their cheekbones.
I preferred the calibre of the BA trainees, one or two of the VA trainees were personality free and vacuous, Char? particularly.