cabin rules
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at 13:09 by DisgustedofSwieqi.
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HonestCrewParticipantJust operated on the ‘Kate & Wills’ plane. Surprise surprise no IFE for 9.5hours. Engineers said in London they don’t have the time and resources to fix it. (!) But as long as the board get their pats on the back….. Wake up people!! Our brand is dying a death!! 🙁
22 Jul 2011
at 02:32
VintageKrugParticipantHardly dying a death.
While I feel sorry for those who cannot make other provision, especially of they have children travelling with them, I am delighted when my IFE fails, as it’s a bonanza of miles or vouchers for me and my travelling companion.
I always travel with an iPadiPod, laptop or just a good book, and plane time is an ideal opportunity to catch up.
What hasn’t been mentioned is that personal DVD players and sometimes iPads loaded with digital content are available in F, in addition to the regular IFE, so there’s no reason for their Royal Highnesses to have been bored.
22 Jul 2011
at 06:58
IanFromHKGParticipantI’ve invited someone up from J to the F buddy seat before. No interference with meals, and we weren’t even talking most of the time and even then in very hushed tones, we were just playing cards – quiet as mice in fact. He still got asked to leave after one drink…
22 Jul 2011
at 07:42
VintageKrugParticipantDon’t see why that’s directed at me – it was HonestCrew who brought it up.
22 Jul 2011
at 10:43
VintageKrugParticipantThat’s no problem.
You will notice I rarely reference a poster in what I post, preferring to reference what has been posted.
That’s seems to work best, for a range of reasons.
22 Jul 2011
at 11:02
HonestCrewParticipantI did not intend to divert the subject. I just wanted to highlight yet another frustration pax and crew face daily. (And I mean DAILY!)
Smart travellers do travel with their own IFE as Rich mentioned but it’s a sad situation if you have paid so much money and the basics are failing.
My attention to detail when I work often attracts the comment “you care too much” particularly from the ‘elders’, which is sad.I am proud to represent BA at work, but pull my hair out sometimes, often leading to bursts of frustration on here.
Thanks for listening.
Now back to the topic……22 Jul 2011
at 12:12
RichHI1ParticipantAll this talk of IFE gets me thinking…. Virgin used to be make a big fuss about in plane texting, so you could “become acquainted” with other pax on plane. With all the developments in IFE one could fit a cheap webcam and a mike to the headphones and avail in flight videoconferencing or multiway viedoconferencing so pax could stay in their cabins and seats and converse, wave, hold meetings etc with no inconvenience to anyone . Added to which the carrier could levy a small charge in non premium cabins for the use of the headsets addign to bottom line 🙂
22 Jul 2011
at 12:55
DisgustedofSwieqiParticipantHonest Crew
I understand where you are coming from. Working with unreliable equipment is very demotivating to someone who cares about doing a good job.
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