BA has said that its 'mixed fleet' Unite cabin crew represent 15 percent of its cabin crew.
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Belgian cabin crew also plan to strike on the two dates and Italian cabin crew will strike on July 25.
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He was surrounded by cabin crew and airport security and led away, and the cabin crew were able to re-secure the door without further incident.
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"Virgin Atlantic are offering a fast track recruitment process for cabin crew and pilots, and easyJet have invited applications for 500 cabin crew vacancies," Grayling said.
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The airline also said its Italian cabin crew have voted overwhelmingly to accept a three-year deal reached with their three main cabin crew unions in September.
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Eighty-seven percent of cabin crew approved a wide-ranging pay and pensions deal with the carrier, cabin crew union UFO said, bringing a long-running dispute to a close.
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But it is facing a growing number of strike threats from pilot and cabin crew unions across Europe, including cabin crew strikes in Italy, Spain, Portugal and Belgium later in July.
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Some cabin crew members have expressed concerns about the crash.
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BERLIN/LONDON (Reuters) - Pilots and cabin crew at Ryanair (RYA.
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Headlines * British Airways cabin crew lift Christmas strike threat on.ft.
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British Airways was the subject of a bitter pay dispute back in 2010, when it saw 22 days of cabin crew walkouts after a decision to cut cabin crew pay and alter staffing levels.
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A memo issued to cabin crew by Ryanair on July 11 said that a number of cabin crew had "refused to complete their duty on the uninformed assumption that they have 'discretion' (in such matters)".
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Suhaila Hassan, head of cabin crew at Malaysia-based budget airline AirAsia Bhd, said there had been no reported cases of passenger-on-passenger harassment, though there were occasional instances of cabin crew being harassed.
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They make up about 15 percent of BA's 16,000 cabin crew.
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Cabin crew and ground staff have already agreed to these changes.
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Growing demand for pilots and cabin crew is having an effect.
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The union represents about 90 cabin crew and pilots in Brussels.
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More shocking is how frequently some cabin crew suffer from harassment.
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Ryanair exposes fake photo of cabin crew sleeping in crew room.
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A week-long strike by cabin crew at Air France AIRF.
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Cabin crew and pilots were not affected by the job cuts.
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Transavia is therefore square behind the cabin crew and the pilots.
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The strike has taken its toll on the cabin crew, too.
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Two cabin crew suffered slight injuries during the incident, Porter said.
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Cabin crew unions in Spain and Portugal on Tuesday told Reuters the dismissal of four cabin crew in Spain last week had complicated efforts to avert two days of strike action on July 25 and 26.
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The cabin crew we've been with all day are present and comforting.
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AirAsia did not comment on the allegations leveled against the cabin crew.
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The 22,000 flight attendants and pursers that make up Emirates cabin crew.
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Like most of the cabin crew, Siti knows more than one language.
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However, the cabin crew dismissed it as a false alarm, it said.
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Secret stairs lead up to the bedrooms where the cabin crew sleeps.
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Paulo Conceicao, secretary of the Polish cabin crew union, CWR, who works as cabin crew at Ryanair, told Reuters that the self-employed contract would mean staff would lose important rights such as sick pay and maternity leave.
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This is not the first time BA cabin crew have called industrial action.
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Fifty-six passengers were aboard with 22016 cabin crew members and security officers.
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The system for assigning cabin crew to flights varies from airline to airline.
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"Ryanair exposes fake photo of cabin crew sleeping in crew room," Ryanair wrote.
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Thousands of cabin crew members working for British Airways had voted on Dec.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - A union representing German cabin crew has called on Ryanair (RYA.
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Airlines were blindsided and some cabin crew were barred from entering the country.
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Cabin crew came by to take our dinner orders before we took off.
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That's when the cabin crew said we need to stop off in Berlin.
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Some cabin crew at BA are in the midst of a 16-day strike.
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Cabin crew has complained of headaches, rashes, burning skin, eye irritation, and respiratory problems.
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But he is hardly alone in believing that female cabin crew should look sexy.
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On Thursday Air France announced the signing of a new agreement with cabin crew.
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Cabin crew must not simply collect them and put them all in one place.
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Unions representing the cabin crew in Spain had called off plans to strike Jan.
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He then allegedly asked the cabin crew to help wipe his backside for him.
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Pilots or cabin crew, we need to know that they're going to turn up.
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Lufthansa's Eurowings unit agreed to a mediation process with German cabin crew on Tuesday.
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The measures are conditional on greater productivity efforts from pilots and cabin crew, they added.
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This summer it was hit by a long series of pilot and cabin-crew strikes.
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"IF YOU have plastic bags, please leave them on the plane," the cabin crew warn.
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I'm extremely exhausted despite having gotten three hours of sleep in the cabin crew bunk.
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Overseas, the flight and cabin crew get shuttled to/from the airports via private buses.
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Some cabin crew have complained the current arrangements complicate their access to social security benefits.
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Another one-day strike by cabin crew is planned across five countries on Sept. 28.
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Then, a London hotel shamed its cabin crew for taking away buffet food in lunchboxes.
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Longer-term cabin crew employees have already been able to don pants instead of skirts.
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The Hong Kong Cabin Crew Federation, a union representing airline employees, has criticized the regulator.
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While the guidelines apply to cabin crew, ICAO also recommends training pilots and ticket agents.
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On Singapore Airlines the cabin crew gives out toys to children based on their age.
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"The regularly trained pilots and cabin crew handled this serious incident perfectly," the statement said.
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Ahmed Zain Jaafari and Hani Maged Othman were cabin crew employees on Saudi Arabian Airlines.
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Ryanair said 80% of cabin crew with the Unite trade union voted in favour of a four-year collective labour agreement that will cover all of the airline's directly employed cabin crew in the United Kingdom, creating a new pay structure and increased guaranteed income.
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Last November, the airline unveiled airline uniforms for cabin crew and engineers which incorporated wearable technology.
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Mixed-fleet cabin crew have taken nearly 60 days of industrial action so far this year.
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Female cabin crew, it goes without saying, should be chosen for their abilities not their allure.
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All 162 passengers, 2 pilots and 4 cabin crew have been disembarked safely from the aircraft.
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Cabin crew fare the worst by far, while air-traffic controllers perform somewhat better than engineers.
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Throughout the flight, the cabin crew were friendly and helpful — and spoke lots of different languages.
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There were 175 passengers, in addition to two pilots and six cabin crew members on board.
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One in three pilots were expected to join cabin crew and ground staff in the walkout.
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Flight EZS1465 was seconds from takeoff when a passenger saw the tool and alerted cabin crew.
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Spanish cabin crew called off planned strikes last week after reaching a preliminary agreement on contracts.
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Cabin crew say the carrier has failed to improve conditions sufficiently after recognizing unions in December.
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It has already agreed wide-ranging pay and pension deals with cabin crew and ground staff.
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Within days, 300 cabin crew had joined a new union, CWR, which Ryanair has not recognized.
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Ryanair has since convinced over 100 cabin crew to overcome initial reluctance and sign the contracts.
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As I was eating my main course, the cabin crew came around to offer fresh drinks.
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And British Airways said a cabin crew strike on Tuesday and Wednesday would not disrupt flights.
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Instead, pilots and cabin crew rebuffed the accord, throwing Alitalia yet again into an uncertain future.
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I am extremely proud to be a part of Norwegian's first U.S.-based cabin crew class.
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The strikes by unionised cabin crew were set for March 29, April 1 and April 4.
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British Airways recently joined in the fun with cabin crew members celebrating in cities across India.
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Five unions representing Ryanair European cabin crew met on on Tuesday and agreed on the deadline.
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Europe's largest budget airline agreed a deal with a cabin crew union in Germany last month.
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The following are some of the factors that may move German stocks: Indicated 0.1 percent higher Eighty-seven percent of cabin crew approved a wide-ranging pay and pensions deal with the carrier, cabin crew union UFO said, bringing a long-running dispute to a close.
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By way of comparison, he said, "the average age of my cabin crew is only 26 years".
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Emirates denied on Tuesday a Reuters report that said the airline was facing a cabin crew shortage.
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Another possible threat to the health of cabin crew members is chemical exposure, according to the study.
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"SAA cannot carry the same workforce, whether it is pilots, cabin crew or administration," he told Reuters.
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Shorty after take-off, the cabin crew came through the first class cabin with a drink cart.
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Talk about your fears to your travel partner, to the cabin crew, to anyone who will listen.
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It did not expect the structural changes to have a direct impact on its cabin crew team.
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The airline Virgin Atlantic has dropped its requirement for female cabin crew to wear makeup on flights.
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Samar Ezzedine, 27 years old and newly wed, was one of the cabin crew on flight 804.
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State-run Turkish Airlines fired more than 100 employees, including management and cabin crew, Turkish media reported.
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But there are over 60 languages spoken across Emirates cabin crew and a staff of 135 nationalities.
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The airline has around 3,765 female employees, including pilots, engineers, technicians, doctors, security personnel and cabin crew.
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Back in Club Europe, cabin crew started serving refreshments as soon as the seatbelt sign turned off.
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Pilots and cabin crew in Germany are the latest to step up pressure over pay and conditions.
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Portuguese cabin crew union SNPVAC has given notice of five days of strike action from Aug. 21.
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The two pilots and two cabin crew were Bangladeshi nationals, airline spokesman Kamrul Islam said in Dhaka.
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Blanco also hopes Delta's cabin crew will come forward to corroborate Blanco's claim that they were asleep.
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Gradually, I — and everyone else — stirred and woke, and the cabin crew kicked into action with breakfast.
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The cabin crew brought around a menu, so we had time to think about what we wanted.
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BERLIN, Jan 22 (Reuters) - Lufthansa and its main cabin crew union have agreed preliminary deals on pay and pensions and have come up with a mediation scheme for other areas of dispute that will see cabin crew strikes ruled out until the end of June, they said on Friday.
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In the latest sign of rising tensions, some recently appointed cabin crew have begun a 16-day strike.
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The protests have been marked by signs, speeches and, at times, scuffles between cabin crew and Eva representatives.
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Passengers on the IndiGo flight reportedly noticed smell in the cabin and alerted the cabin crew on board.
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In 2015, walkouts by pilots and cabin crew cost it 231 million euros, around 30 million per day.
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Cathay pilots and cabin crew this week described political denunciations, sackings and phone searches by Chinese aviation officials.
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But the airline is not alone in making cabin-crew take off clothing as part of the job.
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He asked someone from the cabin crew to translate for him and a flight attendant took the photo.
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"Our cabin crew are trained to ensure the safety of our passengers at all times," Air Transat said.
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Here Wizz Air, a rapidly growing Hungarian carrier, trains cabin crew and pilots in evacuating its planes safely.
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She reportedly insulted the cabin crew, threw documents at them, and forced them to kneel and beg forgiveness.
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German Union Verdi earlier on Wednesday announced it had signed a union recognition agreement for Ryanair cabin crew.
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German union Verdi, which among others represents cabin crew, criticized the decision by administrators to delay the announcement.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - A planned strike by German cabin crew union UFO is illegal, Germany's flag carrier Lufthansa (LHAG.
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British Airways (BA) cabin crew members are striking for a pay increase to their eye-wateringly low salaries.
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It said it is sticking to its plans to cut bases and pilot and cabin crew jobs. bit.
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Today, cabin crew are able to see a wealth of data points on each passenger in the cabin.
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"The regularly trained pilots and cabin crew handled this serious incident perfectly," the airline said in a statement.
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CWR said that was partly through the dismissal of a handful of cabin crew workers on probationary contracts.
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Members of the cabin crew "believed they were dealing with an argument between two passengers," the statement said.
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In 2015, she designed cabin crew uniforms for Aegean Airlines, and in 2017 she turned to fine jewelry.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - German cabin crew union UFO said on Saturday it was planning further strikes at Lufthansa (LHAG.
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But it also faced industrial action from cabin crew and other staff, resulting in hundreds of flight cancellations.
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Airlines provide another example: pilots are paid a lot more than cabin crew, and most pilots are male.
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SOUTH KOREA'S ASIANA AIRLINES ASKS CABIN CREW TO TAKE UNPAID LEAVES AS CHINA ROUTES REDUCED AMID VIRUS CONCERNS
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But she conceded that it would still be difficult for cabin crew members to fight for better conditions.
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The policy is designed to give cabin crew more leeway in the decision to use tasers, Zhang reports.
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But you may want to think twice before you order that English breakfast blend, according to cabin crew members.
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But even when passengers provoke cabin crew, of course, there are certain types of employee misbehaviour that are inexcusable.
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It has also lost a court case over cabin-crew contracts, a judgment that will swell its pay bill.
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Cabin crew, a spokesman said, could earn up to 40,000 euros ($47,000) per year and had attractive working hours.
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Joon will hire 1,000 cabin crew staff between now and 2020, Air France Chief Executive Franck Terner told reporters.
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The protests were marked by signs, speeches and, at times, scuffles between cabin crew and representatives from Eva Air.
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Ryanair employs 400 cabin crew in Poland, according to the union, of which about three-quarters are union members.
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HuffPost reports that the noises are part of an airline's "secret code" that its cabin crew uses to communicate.
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Police said the jet's two pilots, a cabin crew member and a passenger were slightly injured in the crash.
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For cabin crew, there are eight single beds located above the economy cabin, complete with sheets, blankets and pillows.
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Singapore reported 13 new infections on Friday, its biggest daily jump, including a cabin crew member from Singapore Airlines.
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In Europe, safety rules require that pilots and cabin crew are switched to ground jobs when they are pregnant.
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Cabin crew unions in Belgium, Spain, Portugal, Italy and the Netherlands are planning a 24-hour strike on Sept.
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The plane, a new Boeing 737 MAX 8, was carrying 181 passengers, six cabin crew members and two pilots.
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Over 100 employees at the state run Turkish Airlines were sacked following the coup, including management and cabin crew.
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In addition, Norwegian is expected to hire another 150 pilots and cabin crew members in the US during 2017.
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Basic pay for new entrants is as little as £233.25,240.47 [$292,113]—although a spokesperson said "Mixed Fleet cabin crew working full time in 211 earned more than £203,217 [$25,000]"—and there is no London weighting, despite the fact contracts state that cabin crew members must live within two hours of the airport.
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"Our cabin crew are trained to a high standard and acted quickly to deal with this situation," the airline said.
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Every member of staff -- from the flight's captains to the cabin crew, check-in and ground handling staff -- were women.
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Level will also use cabin crew from Iberia, another IAG carrier, to staff its planes, saving on start-up costs.
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Cathay pilots and cabin crew have described a campaign of political denunciations, sackings and telephone searches by Chinese aviation officials.
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The bouncing baby boy happily, but rather surprisingly, arrived in the world with the help of the flight's cabin crew.
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The European Transport Worker's Federation has estimated around one-in-four of Ryanair's approximately 8,000 cabin crew are directly employed.
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Cabin crew union UFO holds a news conference on how to proceed in a dispute over negotiated wages at Lufthansa.
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Eurowings had already reached a similar deal with unions representing cabin crew staff that takes into account applicants' previous experience.
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O'Leary reiterated that he was confident that Ryanair could resolve its dispute with German unions representing pilots and cabin crew.
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For the past week, Hatton Cross has been the location of the striking Heathrow-based cabin crew of British Airways.
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"They've spent thousands on leasing from other airlines like Thompson and Thomas Cook," says a senior cabin crew member, Gareth.
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The UK, Chile, Japan, Korea and Mexico all feature top-ranking male flight attendants and/or cabin crew as well.
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So do companies like Heineken, Adidas and Virgin Atlantic, which uses video interviews for hiring flight attendants and cabin crew.
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That said, every time I've flown BA in the past I've been impressed by the friendliness of the cabin crew.
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The ceremony was attended by regular passengers of the airline Jetstar, cabin crew, and friends and family of the couple.
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TRADE UNIONS INCLUDING CABIN CREW DEMANDING 8% WAGE INCREASE, JOB SECURITY FOR 3 YEARS, IN-SOURCING OF ALL OUTSOURCED SERVICES
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Marx described the incident as a "chaotic and dangerous event", which cabin crew had been "completely ill-equipped to handle".
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Just like for the pilots, there's a secret area of the plane where the cabin crew can go to rest.
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Around 15 minutes into the flight, the cabin crew started to make their way down the aisle with complimentary drinks.
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Singapore Airlines said on Friday that a cabin crew member, whose last flight was between Paris and Singapore on Feb.
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All customer-facing employees will receive the new uniforms from ground staff to cabin crew, representing the airline's new look.
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She noted that it took until last January for British Airways to allow female cabin crew members to wear trousers.
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Their demands include respecting national legislation where cabin crew are based and applying the same work conditions for all workers.
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For 20 years, she has worked for the Association of Flight Attendants, which represents the cabin crew at 20 airlines.
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FRANKFURT, Dec 27 (Reuters) - German cabin crew will go on strike from Monday through Wednesday next week at Lufthansa's < LHAG.
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However, Virgin isn't the first airline to make a shift in their uniform guidelines for female flight attendants and cabin crew.
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Cathay pilots and cabin crew this week described a climate of political denunciations, sackings and phone searches by Chinese aviation officials.
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These instances are dangerous not only for passengers but also for cabin crew, who suffer extreme cabin temperatures far more regularly.
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As part of the cabin crew, I have to wear "natural makeup" and can only have red or nude nail polish.
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The 1,000-member Cabin Crew Union of LAN Express said 91 percent of its members agreed to reject the new offer.
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That would be good news not only for cabin crew, but also for the flyers who benefit from happy flight attendants.
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However, there is still the expectation from both passengers and airline companies that female cabin crew must present a certain image.
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" Saskia*, a cabin crew member who coordinates the ITF's Qatar Airways campaign, says the company has built a "culture of fear.
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Of easyJet's pilots, 22016% are men (average salary: £225,229) whereas 69% of cabin crew are women (earning an average of £24,800).
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Three months later, the same airline fired three of its cabin crew for wild drunken behaviour during a stopover in Nairobi.
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The airline quickly announced that the menu was just for the cabin crew and shouldn't have been passed out to customers.
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The planned cabin crew strike on Boxing Day has also been suspended, Unite general secretary Len McCluskey said in a statement.
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Cabin crew on a Turkish Airlines flight are being praised after they helped to deliver a baby girl at 42,000 feet.
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The co-pilot ran out of the cockpit a second time before being convinced to go back inside by cabin crew.
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Its pregnancy test requirement for cabin crew jobs-- and the reason the airline cited for it -- was widely derided as sexist.
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INDIA AVIATION REGULATOR SAYS NO PILOTS, CABIN CREW TO BE PUT ON DUTY IF THEY HAVE REPORTED STRESS OF ANY KIND
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Indicated 1.8 percent higher Mediation due to start in a long-running labour dispute between Lufthansa and cabin crew union UFO.
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"More than 750 cabin crew, members of the LAN Express union, have already been reinstated," a representative of LATAM told Reuters.
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And you may not know it — but the cabin crew on your flight have iPads chock-full of info on you.
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If passengers fill out a satisfaction survey after their flight, cabin crew can see the history of the last five flights.
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If a passenger cannot locate their device, they should refrain from moving their seat and immediately contact a cabin crew member.
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In such a case a member of the cabin crew or a passenger might be able to switch the system on.
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Airline chefs or catering groups usually provide instructions for the cabin crew on how to heat and even plate the food.
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These photos show its glory days, from its glamorous cabin crew to how its passengers wore their best clothes to fly.
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And when faced with this situation, ask the cabin crew to request the passenger use earphones or turn the volume down.
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Many of its ground staff and cabin crew have taken part enthusiastically in marches; one pilot was even arrested for rioting.
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The cabin crew eventually refunded the man $5.21 for the sandwich and $2.31 for the bottle of the water, which he kept.
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A union representing Ryanair cabin crew in Portugal this week announced it would hold three one-day strikes during the Easter holidays.
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Eurowings last week had to cancel more than 60 flights due to a strike by cabin crew at Duessseldorf and Hamburg airports.
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In a statement to PEOPLE, British Airways explained that the "cabin crew and Captain reassured all the customers involved" after the incident.
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Patrisha Organo was already excited to head to work that day because she had just been promoted to a Cabin Crew Evaluator.
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On the face of it, cabin crew make decent salaries: $50,500 a year on average, according to American government data from 2017.
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In February construction work started on a bigger training centre to teach an extra 1,400 cabin crew it will need next year.
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Now United Airlines has found evidence that their cabin crew are doing this too, and is threatening to fire employees who participate.
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I got one of the cabin crew to translate for me and asked him if I could do a selfie with him.
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On Wednesday, it described a series of demands by cabin crew unions as "pointless" due to the overall attractiveness of staff conditions.
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It canceled flights after strikes last week by Dublin-based pilots and stoppages by cabin crew in Italy, Spain, Portugal and Belgium.
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First, female cabin crew at Air France complained about an edict telling them to wear a headscarf when disembarking aircraft in Iran.
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And in Germany, male cabin crew members were top-ranked and male flight attendants (again, how is that different?) were placed fifth.
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Passengers on the plane only realized the mistake when the cabin crew announced they had landed in Edinburgh, according to the BBC.
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"Major industrial action at Eurowings can no longer be ruled out," Nicoley Baublies, chief negotiator at cabin crew union UFO told Reuters.
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"In fact, Emirates' cabin crew is trained in restraint techniques, though Nurazlin says that this is only used as a "last resort.
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We're grateful to our cabin crew who supported our customer following this incident and would like to apologise for the distress caused.
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Marx, along with fellow passengers and cabin crew, tried to restrain the unruly traveler with rope on the Tuesday flight, he said.
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There are six narrow bunks in the cabin crew rest on Qantas' 787-9, the plane that operates the "Project Sunrise" flight.
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The old policy meant Tasers could only be used when lives or the physical safety of passengers and cabin crew was threatened.
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The cabin crew were wearing gloves and masks during the flight and the plane has since been disinfected, according to the airline.
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The airline said earlier on Monday that it would furlough 5,000 cabin crew from next month for as long as a year.
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It is also looking to close its New Zealand cabin crew and pilot bases and its Tigerair Australia pilot base in Melbourne.
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It will also take on leases for up to 25 A320 aircraft, and about 1,000 of Air Berlin's pilots and cabin crew.
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But in order to maintain safety in a metal tube with only one or two alleyways, the cabin crew needs your cooperation.
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Only after intense pressure from the International Labor Organization in 28500 did Al Baker remove these discriminatory prohibitions on female cabin crew.
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German services union Verdi, which represents cabin crew, is seeking a substantial pay increase as well as local contracts for its members.
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The plane, a new Boeing 737 MAX 8, was carrying 181 passengers, as well as six cabin crew members and two pilots.
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It said that affected pilots would likely be offered other positions and it would seek to minimize job losses among cabin crew.
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Finally, Bob reminds the cabin crew to let him know if anything out of the ordinary jumps out at them during boarding.
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As a result, they say, NAI could hire lower-cost pilots and cabin crew members from Asia to fly trans-Atlantic routes.
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It said that it had hired 300 cabin crew in the United States for its bases in New York and Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
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EasyJet in November agreed a deal with German trade union Verdi over job terms for former pilots and cabin crew of Air Berlin.
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India's aviation safety regulator Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) asked the airlines to suspend the cabin crew, for "misuse" of the intercom.
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Less-well-paid workers, such as cabin crew and lorry drivers, have been lured away by job openings in more family-friendly industries.
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Pilots and cabin crew at Cathay Pacific Airways described a "white terror" of political denunciations, sackings and phone searches by Chinese aviation officials.
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Females are often the public face of the industry, but usually only in the form of low-ranking and poorly-paid cabin crew.
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Talking to staff, it is easy to find female cabin crew who defend their employers and say they enjoy their jet-setting lifestyle.
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The Association of Flight Attendants, the union representing American cabin crew, asked more than 3,500 flight attendants from 29 airlines about their experiences.
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Chu on Thursday told staff there would be no "people cost reductions" in customer facing roles including pilots, cabin crew and customer service.
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They're so fly We don't know much about China's Hainan Airlines, other than it's got the coolest cabin crew uniforms on the planet.
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The unions do not represent all cabin crew in those countries, but they have said other crew are welcome to join the action.
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In a similar incident last year, German leisure airline TUIfly was forced to cancel flights after cockpit and cabin crew called in sick.
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LONDON (Reuters) - British Airways said on Monday it planned to operate a full schedule over Christmas despite a planned strike by cabin crew.
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Earlier, German cabin crew union UFO said it had asked Ryanair for negotiations on pay and conditions in October, but the carrier refused.
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In Poland, a union representing Polish cabin crew has refused to sign the new contracts which the company's local subsidiary wants to introduce.
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In a news conference on Tuesday, Penton explained to reporters that passengers and the cabin crew were just as shocked as she was.
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Flight 610 was carrying 181 passengers, six cabin crew members and two pilots from Jakarta to Pangkal Pinang on the island of Bangka.
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The cabin crew notices and "senior colleagues" are notified but it's time for meal service and Burns is asked to wait it out.
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Female cabin crew will also be given a pair of pants as an alternative to the standard uniform skirt, HuffPost UK reported Monday.
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The spokesman said cabin crew followed regulations and did not fire the stun gun for fear of injuring nearby passengers in the melee.
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He said cabin crew received sick pay and a 400-euro annual uniform allowance and could earn up to 40,000 euros per year.
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DE. Eurowings launched a recruitment drive last month, seeking around 200 pilots and 000 cabin crew qualified to fly and crew A320 jets.
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The airline said it had informed 300 pilots and cabin crew in Dublin that it no longer expected their jobs would be lost.
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Pilots and cabin crew at the airline have described a "white terror" of political denunciations, sackings and phone searches by Chinese aviation officials.
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Cabin crew unions demanded an immediate halt to Air France's Beijing and Shanghai flights ahead of a works council meeting, staff representatives said.
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On Wednesday, pilots and cabin crew at Ryanair in Germany started another full-day walkout to put pressure on management amid labor talks.
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Cabin crew unions demanded an immediate halt to Air France's Beijing and Shanghai flights ahead of a works council meeting, staff representatives said.
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According to Reuters, which first reported the news, the routes and flights flown by the infected cabin-crew member were not immediately available.
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Overall, Boeing said, the aviation industry would need to supply more than 2 million new commercial airline pilots, maintenance technicians and cabin crew.
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The union said last week that thousands of cabin crew had voted overwhelmingly in favour of strike action in a dispute over pay.
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A flight attendant prepares to work the friendly skies for the final time while the rest of the cabin crew is in turmoil.
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On December 20, 80's pop star Richard Marx stepped in to help the Korean Air cabin crew subdue a physically aggressive passenger.
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It then concluded with what seemed to be an uncontroversial suggestion: female cabin crew should be chosen for their abilities, not for their allure.
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It will begin redundancy consultations with over 100 Dublin pilots and more than 200 cabin crew who were issued with 90-day protective notice.
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Two of the airline's cabin crew unions called the strike, which started on Wednesday after talks on renewing a collective labour agreement broke down.
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The changes come after feedback from employees of the airline, and as some of its newer competitors are relaxing traditional cabin crew uniform rules.
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BA says the impact will be minimal, with 23% of cabin crew reporting for duty and just 12 return flights being cancelled each day.
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It has already agreed deals with the main unions representing ground staff and cabin crew in Germany, leaving an agreement with its pilots outstanding.
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These delays and consequent compensation will hit Ryanair's profits harder than continued pilot and cabin-crew strikes, says Gerald Khoo of Liberum, a bank.
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Last year he mocked American carriers for hiring "grandmothers" as flight attendants, boasting that the average age of his cabin crew is 26 years.
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Some panicked people were grabbing bags while the cabin crew insisted they leave them behind and exit via the emergency slides which had deployed.
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That may be because airlines are doing so little to address harassment that cabin crew do not think it is worth making a complaint.
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CABIN crew on Korean Air flights have used electric stun guns to pacify flyers on five occasions, according to an investigation by the BBC.
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The UFO union, which represents cabin crew, threatened a prolonged walkout if Lufthansa did not accept its demands that include higher wages for staff.
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The walk-out is being staged by BA's "mixed fleet" cabin crew, who make up around 15 percent of the airline's total cabin staff.
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On Tuesday, a directive from the airline instructing cabin crew to stop passengers taking photos and videos mid-air was leaked on social media.
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According to Jetstar's press statement, only selected flights into Singapore on the day will get to hear the pilots and cabin crew speaking Singlish.
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After spotting the child coming out of the bag, passengers alerted the cabin crew onboard Air France Flight 1891, according to the press office.
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Virgin Atlantic's website describes its requirements for cabin crew as people who can provide "fantastic service," are over 18 and are fluent in English.
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The strike by BA's mixed fleet cabin crew - those who work on both long and short-haul flights - is due to begin on Saturday.
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Colombia's male flight attendants are rated fifth most popular and France's male cabin crew are at the very top of the swipe food chain.
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A survey by Unite, a union, found that 20% of cabin crew members had suffered physical abuse at some point, often related to drunkenness.
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Between 2009 and 2011, BA suffered two years of bitter industrial action as it tried to cut 1,700 cabin crew jobs and freeze pay.
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These iPads began as a way for cabin crew to identify passengers with a tight connection and help them rebook while still mid-flight.
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A cabin crew member was also injured in the descent, it added, without providing details on what had caused the windshield to break off.
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Qatar Airways has also leased A320 planes and staff to British Airways for two weeks during a cabin crew strike at the UK carrier.
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Dubbed 'Project Sunrise', the nearly 20 hour-long research flights are being used by Qantas to see how they impact pilots and cabin crew.
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Unlike the pilots' crew rest, which had only two bunks, the flight-attendant area had six — one for each member of the cabin crew.
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The UFO union, which represents cabin crew, threatened a prolonged walkout if Lufthansa did not accept its demands that include higher wages for staff.
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Executives, pilots and engineers will be paid half their basic salaries and cabin crew would be paid 25% less in April, the email said.
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More than 100 pilots and over 200 cabin crew employees have been sent "letter of protective notice" that start a 90-day redundancy consultation.
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The airline also operates Africa's largest aviation academy, where pilots, ground staff, maintenance technicians and cabin crew from across the continent come to train.
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I was offered a drink by a senior cabin crew member called Katarina, who was assigned to me and three others in my section.
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Ndiea said about 2,000 workers assembled to strike on Wednesday morning including cabin crew, ground operations, customer care, check in staff and security staff.
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British Airways cabin crew voted on Wednesday to strike this month while baggage handlers will be walking out for two days from next Friday.
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It said it would seek to minimize job losses by offering pilots vacancies elsewhere and consider unpaid leave and other options for cabin crew.
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Indicated 0.3 percent higher German cabin crew union UFO will postpone strikes at Lufthansa's budget unit Eurowings as it has received a new wage proposal.
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The NTSB is also looking at the human aspects of what may have led to the incident, including the flight crew and the cabin crew.
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Earlier this year, Norwegian Air drew heavy criticism for requiring female cabin crew to carry a doctor's note if they wanted to wear flat shoes.
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Then, cabin crew were angry about staffing cutbacks and the introduction of new contracts, dubbed "mixed-fleet" contracts, which offered inferior terms for new employees.
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In the letter to Ryanair, the two Belgian unions said cabin crew and pilots stationed in Belgium had been asked to staff some affected flights.
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FRANKFURT, Oct 26 (Reuters) - Lufthansa's budget airline Eurowings has called on German cabin crew union UFO to resume pay talks rather than launching industrial action.
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I ended up having a panic attack, and the cabin crew had to board me separately from the other passengers because I couldn't compose myself.
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Nicoley Baublies, head of Lufthansa's main cabin crew union, said some crew members had raised concerns, but not to the extent seen at Air France.
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But since then, the airline has banned a member of parliament, who was accused of assaulting a cabin crew member, from flying with Air India.
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Eurowings on Wednesday announced a recruitment drive, saying it was seeking around 200 pilots and 400 cabin crew qualified to fly and crew A320 planes.
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In 2014, Qatar Airways defended policies on pregnancy and marriage for cabin crew after coming under fire over working conditions in the conservative Gulf emirate.
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At the same time, Saskia says that 'Fly High' events at nightclubs and hotels are advertised with cut-price (or free drinks) for cabin crew.
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Saturday's alleged events follow an incident in December in which a man was disarmed at Heathrow by cabin crew after stabbing himself in the head.
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Whether reviews of seat pitch, airline food and cabin crew will prove to be as important to an airline customer's decision remains to be seen.
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Cabin crew members in the mixed fleet are in a long-running dispute over pay, and have been on strike several times already in 2017.
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Lufthansa has agreed with its cabin crew labour union to enter arbitration over a wage dispute, the airline and the union said, averting further strikes.
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The fleet reduction threatened the jobs of over 100 Dublin pilots and more than 200 cabin crew who were issued with 90-day protective notices.
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The rallies would be held in Berlin and Frankfurt, the union that represents about 1,000 cabin crew at Ryanair in Germany said in a statement.
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Members of Ryanair's British pilots union voted this week to follow Portuguese cabin crew to the picket line, with two strikes planned from Aug. 22.
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Dubai-based Emirates, the world's largest longhaul carrier, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation it was working on a trafficking training program for all cabin crew.
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While flight attendants with competitors like United, American, and Southwest are represented by unions, Delta is the largest US airline with nonunion cabin crew employees.
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Ms. Ersson, 21, filmed herself in a standoff on July 23 with the cabin crew of a Turkish Airlines flight at Landvetter Airport in Gothenburg.
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Air New Zealand Ltd said it would close its cabin crew base in London earlier than initially planned, leading to the loss of 130 jobs.
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Ethiopian Airlines' training academy, which 4,000 students pass through each year, trains not just pilots but also cabin crew, mechanics, and sales and management professionals.
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The Irish budget carrier Ryanair has written to more than 26 pilots and cabin crew to warn that they could lose their jobs this winter.
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"While we continue to actively engage with pilot and cabin crew unions across Europe, we expect further strikes over the peak summer period," O'Leary said.
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"BA and Unite have accepted our invitation to attend conciliation talks in respect of the cabin crew dispute tomorrow morning," a spokeswoman for Acas said.
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A series of strikes in 2018 prompted the Irish airline to agree to apply Belgian law to cabin crew and pilots based in the country.
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Thousands of cabin crew working for British Airways have voted overwhelmingly in favor of strike action in a pay dispute, the Unite union said on Wednesday.
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Now, all the cabin crew members from the Jet Airways filght have been suspended for allowing Nigam to croon on the plane's in-flight anouncement system.
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Several groups of pilots and cabin crew are already taking advantage of their right to strike: more than 600 flights have been cancelled this week alone.
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BARRING a last-minute breakthrough, about 223,28.8 cabin crew members employed by British Airways (BA) will strike this week over alleged "poverty pay" at the airline.
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Separately, a five-day strike by Ryanair's cabin crew in Portugal is underway but disruption to passengers appeared minimal, with no canceled flights or major delays.
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The group in July agreed a deal with its main cabin crew union on pay and conditions, which is now being voted on by union members.
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DE has reached an agreement on pay and conditions for its cabin crew, helping it as it embarks on a drastic restructuring, it said on Saturday.
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The Ryanair solution is not popular among all cabin crew, whose job satisfaction partly rests on having some sort of control over the routes they fly.
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Meanwhile on Monday, Air France-KLM reported a 0.6 percent decline in passenger numbers during July due to cabin crew strikes, compared to the year before.
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BRUSSELS, Sept 19 (Reuters) - The union representing cabin crew in Belgium turned down an offer by Irish airline Ryanair ahead of a planned strike on Sept.
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FRANKFURT, Oct 26 (Reuters) - A German union called on cabin crew at Lufthansa's budget unit Eurowings to stage a strike on Thursday after wage talks collapsed.
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He said the evacuation had been more like a "stampede" because of the cabin crew rushing to get passengers off the plane as soon as possible.
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The boy in the aisle seems just the right level of blood-spike adrenalin and genuine laugh-and-smile nervousness when the cabin crew member approaches.
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Although Cho has since apologised for the incident, any cabin crew who encounters her in future will probably think twice about serving her any nuts again.
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Representatives of the union said they expected 4,000 cabin crew to participate, a number that would imply significant participation outside of the four countries directly affected.
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The ballot is a setback for management who have in recent months said they had largely resolved an industrial relations dispute with pilots and cabin crew.
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Cabin crew launched a strike over pay and pensions that will result in the cancellation of 211,7773 flights on Thursday and Friday and affect 2777,21 passengers.
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DUBLIN, Aug 1 (Reuters) - Ryanair's Portuguese cabin crew trade union SNPVAC said on Thursday its members would go on strike for five days from Aug. 21.
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Unite said in a statement earlier on Wednesday that thousands of British Airways cabin crew had voted in favour of strike action in a pay dispute.
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While cabin crew would normally be seated at the emergency exit, they were unable to prevent the passenger from opening the door, according to the Independent.
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Last week, Ryanair said it had 500 more pilots and 400 more cabin crew than needed, with job losses will be announced in the coming weeks.
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The three other defendants given death sentences on Saturday are Ahmed Afify, a documentary producer, Ahmed Ismail, an academic, and EgyptAir cabin crew member Mohammed Keilany.
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The deal with Verdi, which Eurowings says will take into account applicants' previous experience, follows a similar accord with union UFO, which also represents cabin crew.
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Flydubai said it strictly followed flying duty time regulations in compiling rosters and the safety and welfare of flight and cabin crew were of primary importance.
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Lufthansa's management appeared to be more interested in demonstrating a hard line in negotiations than in reaching an agreement with cabin crew, German union UFO said.
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"This is devastating," said Sara Nelson, president of the Association of Flight Attendants, which represents some 50,000 cabin crew members, including more than 200 at Compass.
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More than 2,300 aviation workers took part in the strike, including 1,200 Cathay cabin crew and pilots, according to the Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions.
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One cabin crew member was being treated for a waist injury and the first officer suffered scratches, but the remaining passengers were discharged, the post said.
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"I can confirm we have a cabin crew member who has been diagnosed with coronavirus," Virgin Australia chief executive Paul Scurrah said, according to 7 News.
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Air France cabin crew unions were demanding the same, sources said, though the company has already allowed pilots and crew to opt out of China flights.
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Flybe's purple color scheme — which in addition to the lighting includes carpets, seat covers, and cabin crew — was rolled out with a "brand refresh" in 2014.
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Some have also been scrambling to hire former Jet pilots, cabin crew and engineers, while looking to lease planes that have been repossessed by Jet's lessors.
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Another passenger, identified only as Eva, said the cabin crew tried to calm passengers and told them to fasten their seatbelts after a noise was heard.
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LONDON, Dec 18 (Reuters) - Talks aimed at averting a planned Christmas strike by British Airways cabin crew will be held on Monday, conciliation service Acas said.
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BA said other labor unions, representing nearly 206% of all BA staff, including engineers, cabin crew and ground staff, had accepted the pay increase of 2226%.
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Flight attendants last year picketed at some of the country's largest airports to protest United's decision to cut cabin crew staffing in order to save money.
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Under a national system of industry-wide salary awards, pay in many jobs, from cabin crew to funeral directors, is in effect indexed to the minimum wage.
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Cabin crew members are also regularly exposed to more UV radiation than the general population, which can make these workers more vulnerable to skin cancers, Mordukhovich said.
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A spokesman for Ryanair, which this month signed its first cabin crew union recognition agreements with staff in Italy and Britain, was not immediately available for comment.
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Ryanair has said it expects minimal disruption from the walkouts which are scheduled to begin with a five-day strike by Portuguese cabin crew trade union SNPVAC.
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In November 2016, a Canadian airliner with 54 passengers on board had to swerve to avoid an unmanned flying object near Toronto, slightly injuring two cabin crew.
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Verdi, which represents about 1,000 Ryanair cabin crew in Germany, said the agreement would only become final once its members had been able to vote on it.
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In recent weeks it has been also been hit the threat of strike action by pilots in the United Kingdom and Ireland and cabin crew in Portugal.
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In its effort to reduce costs, Lufthansa has agreed deals on pay and retirement schemes with the main unions representing ground staff and cabin crew in Germany.
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FRANKFURT, Oct 20 (Reuters) - German cabin crew union UFO said strikes were possible from Monday at Lufthansa's budget unit Eurowings after talks on pay collapsed last week.
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But later, when a cabin crew member expressed anger over the comments, Knowslon said she began to question why this type of treatment toward women is normal.
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FRANKFURT, Nov 22 (Reuters) - Lufthansa's budget carrier Eurowings has cancelled more than 60 flights on Tuesday due to a strike by cabin crew, according to its website.
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And in 2012, a member of cabin crew working for Ryanair, Europe's biggest low-cost carrier, fell from a plane in Sweden and sustained a head injury.
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In that instance, an all-female cabin crew apparently took four hours to subdue a drunk passenger, with other paying flyers forced to help them do so.
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"We will be submitting an offer for the 90 jet aircraft, with their pilots, cabin crew, routes etc," O'Leary told journalists at a press briefing in London.
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He suffered scratches and a sprained wrist, the Civil Aviation Administration of China said, adding that one other cabin crew member was also injured in the descent.
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Nearly 300 flights were already cancelled since its cabin crew went on strike on June 20, including flights from Taipei to Chicago, Paris, Seoul and Hong Kong.
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The definition of overheating is different for each person, so the cabin crew keeps the interiors of a plane cooler to err on the side of caution.
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It seemed to take ages for the cabin crew to come round again offering drinks, and I was gasping by the time I finally got some water.
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"I am very worried about the ban on flight attendants' freedom," a cabin crew member, who declined to be named, told Reuters outside Cathay's headquarters on Tuesday.
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In the video, the man is seen getting up, clambering over the woman, and moving down the plane, as the cabin crew try to defuse the situation.
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"During the flight, the cabin crew became aware that one of the passengers boarded the incorrect flight and notified the pilot," the airline said in a statement.
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The Cathay Pacific Group has fired two cabin crew members over an oxygen bottle which was found tampered with aboard one of its planes, the company confirmed.
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FRANKFURT (Reuters) - A German union representing cabin crew staff at Lufthansa on Friday said negotiations over a potential profit-sharing deal with the airline had broken down.
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Japan Airlines said it performs health checks on cabin crew and tells them to report if they have a fever, removing them from flights if they do.
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It said those who submitted longer leave duration requests would be favoured and that cabin crew could take leave in blocks of six, 12, or 18 days.
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Air France said more than 32 percent of its pilots, 20 percent of cabin crew and 15 percent of ground staff were expected to join the strike.
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The decision came after cabin crew unions demanded an immediate halt to Air France's Beijing and Shanghai flights ahead of a works council meeting, staff representatives said.
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Lufthansa has agreed a new pay and pensions deal with cabin crew and on Monday said it was extending talks on pay and conditions with its pilots.
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"Morale is at an all-time low," said Lori Bassani, president of the Association of Professional Flight Attendants, which represents about 211,22005 American Airlines cabin crew members.
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The sensors could also alert cabin crew if somebody has been locked inside the lav for a very long time—who could be ill or need assistance.
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Screenshots of an internal email purportedly sent to Emirates staff circulated online this week, telling cabin crew to use the Chinese flag instead of Taiwanese flag pins.
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According to the airline, its New York base will have more than 300 cabin crew by year's end while its Ft. Lauderdale base will have nearly 200.
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Members of Ryanair's British pilot union voted this week to follow Portuguese cabin crew to the picket line this month with two two-day strikes from Aug. 22.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Thousands of cabin crew working for British Airways have voted overwhelmingly in favor of strike action in a pay dispute, the Unite union said on Wednesday.
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This summer the biggest set of strikes by pilots and cabin crew in the airline's history puts the first two of these at risk—though not the third.
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The names of the 56 passengers and 10 crew on board -- two cockpit crew, five cabin crew and three security staff -- have not been released by the airline.
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The stoppage was part of a wave of planned Christmas strikes by groups including rail workers and cabin crew that Prime Minister Theresa May has called "completely unacceptable".
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Cabin crew in four countries have announced plans to strike on July 25 and 26 and several other pilot unions are considering industrial action to demand improved conditions.
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Some 40 cabin crew members started their training in December and another 330 have passed the selection process and will start training in the coming months, it easyJet.
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Lufthansa management and the cabin crew union UFO have been at loggerheads since September 2013, when Lufthansa said it wanted to cancel a decades-old early retirement scheme.
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In Belgium, where Ryanair cabin crew have already gone on strike, unions called on pilots there to support their Irish colleagues with a strike on the same day.
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TORONTO (Reuters) - A British Airways flight from San Francisco to London was diverted to Vancouver after members of the cabin crew became unwell, the airline said on Tuesday.
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Separately, the Unite union announced that mixed fleet cabin crew working for British Airways, owned by International Airlines Group, would stage six more days of strikes, from Feb.
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Next week Ryanair faces action in two of its three largest markets, with strikes by cabin crew in Spain and Italy, as well as in Portugal and Belgium.
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One passenger, who was identified only as Eva, said the cabin crew tried to calm passengers and told them to fasten their seatbelts after a noise was heard.
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The flight, at nearly 10,000 miles and 20 hours long, presents several potential challenges, including how to keep passengers comfortable and pilots and cabin crew rested and alert.
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"Due to the massive response of members in the past few weeks I expect agreement," Nicoley Baublies, chief negotiator of cabin crew union UFO, told Reuters on Wednesday.
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DUBLIN (Reuters) - Ryanair expects to operate a full schedule of flights on Tuesday despite plans by Spanish cabin crew unions to strike, the Irish airline said on Friday.
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Italian union Ultrasporti has said the agreement Ryanair secured in Italy is with a union that does not represent the majority of Ryanair cabin crew in the region.
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"We are proactively engaging with our pilots and cabin crew at our Dublin base, including their respective unions, to ensure that redundancies remain a last resort," said Wood.
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This notice said that some pilots and cabin crew members who worked for Cathay Pacific had been involved in questionable extreme activities related to the Hong Kong protests.
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Thousands of Air France passengers all over the world faced disruptions to their itineraries today, following a labor strike involving the carrier's pilots, cabin crew and ground staff.
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Shares of Korean Air Lines rose 1.58% on Tuesday despite the airline announcing Tuesday that a cabin crew member had tested positive for the coronavirus, according to Reuters.
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"Some cabin crew support the government, and have given fellow workers' names to the company who have talked about supporting the protests and thence been terminated," Jack says.
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In other corporate news, Ryanair is to face its biggest-ever strike by cabin crew next week, with about 600 flights expected to be canceled as a result.
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And those helpers include people like Emirates Cabin Crew member Lauren Guilfoyle, who gave us a few tips and tricks to ensure you have a smooth holiday ride.
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The mixed fleet staff make up about a third of the BA's total cabin crew of around 16,000, although not all members of the crew will take action.
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" Pronair shut down soon thereafter, and the plane was acquired by a cargo airline named Saicus Air in 2010 and "rented to third parties along with a cabin crew.
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Still, IAG's boss, Willie Walsh (who earned €8.8m in 2015, or 364 times that of his cabin crew), has never erred from his iron-fisted approach to union negotiations.
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Your role may be small, but could be significant: Carefully evaluate the situation, assist the cabin crew where and when you can, and always ensure the cockpit is protected.
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Later this month, flyers could face even more disruption as some cabin crew strike over the loss of travel benefits, which were suspended last year following strikes over pay.
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Cabin crew can use this information to wish flyers a happy birthday or decide whether they are worth compensating for inconveniences such as a spilled coffee or broken screens.
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Earlier this month China's aviation regulator barred cabin crew found to have participated in or supported the demonstrations, which many Cathay staff openly had, from flying over the mainland.
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By stripping away benefits and inefficient working practices that pilots and cabin crew had cherished for decades, he has turned the Irish airline into Europe's biggest and most profitable.
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In recent weeks Ryanair has been also been hit by the threat of fresh strike action by pilots in the United Kingdom and Ireland and cabin crew in Portugal.
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BERLIN, Sept 27 (Reuters) - German union Verdi said it was calling on cabin crew at Ryanair in Germany to join colleagues from several European countries in walkouts on Friday.
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Indicated 1.03 percent higher Cabin crew at Lufthansa's budget carrier Eurowings are preparing to strike next week in a row over contracts, the leader of their union, UFO, said.
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"During the flight, the cabin crew became aware that one of the passengers boarded the incorrect flight and notified the pilot," ANA said in a statement, ABC News reported.
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Other cabin crew I spoke to said that most European and US airlines were improving in terms of dealing with women's issues— but there is some way to go.
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Cabin crew have complained that they have to pay for drinking water during flights and must physically report to work when sick to provide written details of their symptoms.
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On-board crew already have had Tasers on hand for years but could only use them when lives or the physical safety of passengers and cabin crew was threatened.
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Worker unions representing Air France pilots, cabin crew and ground staff called the strike amid demands for a 6 percent pay rise, which the airline has refused to meet.
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On Tuesday, it said that it still expected EBIT to be above last year, thanks to a pay deal agreed with cabin crew that will reduce its pension costs.
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LONDON (Reuters) - British Airways said that all its passengers would be flown to their destinations during a 72-hour pay strike by some cabin crew which began on Thursday.
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In July 2017, the CEO caught heat for describing American flight attendants as "grandmothers" while boasting that Qatar's cabin crew members were an average age of 26 years old.
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Verdi is seeking a substantial pay increase for cabin crew, it said in a statement on Monday, and wants Ryanair to recognize German law and pay social security contributions.
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"There are many things that the cabin crew must attend to, so tray tables are often only cleaned at the end of the day," the study authors pointed out.
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British Airways "mixed fleet" cabin crew, who make up around 93 percent of total BA cabin staff, also plan to stage more strikes next month in a pay dispute.
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All the on-board positions on the flight — including the pilots, cabin crew, check-in staff, doctor, customer care, air traffic control and ground crew — were held by women.
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With help from the cabin crew, the nurses were able to successfully deliver the child, while the pilot redirected the plane to Hyderabad, India to seek additional medical assistance.
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SkyLights also had to sort out complicated issues, such as how the cabin crew would get the headsets to passengers, and how the headsets would be cleaned and charged.
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Germany's services union Verdi, which represents around 1,000 cabin crew at Ryanair and had encouraged them to hold rallies on Friday, said its members would also join the walkout.
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Bin Turki's entourage told Vanity Fair that their private plane from Paris to Egypt had suspiciously been replaced with a Saudi government one with an all male cabin crew.
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Eurowings said in an internal communication on Friday that more than 2,000 people had applied for jobs, after it advertised for over 1,000 pilots, cabin crew and ground staff.
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A mother has praised United Airlines after cabin crew let her autistic son sit in the aisle and in first class during a flight from San Diego to Houston.
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"Ryanair's Spanish cabin crew were aware of an argument between these two passengers during the boarding process, but were not aware of ... racist comments that were made," Ryanair said.
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Aegean executives said the carrier will also invest 30 million euros ($35 million) to build a new 12,000 square meter facility in Athens for flight and cabin crew training.
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A spokeswoman for the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa, which called the strike alongside the South African Cabin Crew Association, could not be reached for immediate comment.
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The airline's 4,000 UK cabin crew will be furloughed for two months starting April 1 and will be paid 80% of their average wage by the government, it added.
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The information collected from the so-called Flight Lab is shared with both cabin crew, to address with supplies on board, and with the airlines tasked with ordering them.
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The Hong Kong Cabin Crew Federation also issued a strike call and ground staff at the city's airport said some colleagues did not show up or called in sick.
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And when he returned to work in May of last year, Korean Air demoted him from cabin crew chief to flight attendant, citing what it called his poor English.
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The airline has put forward a plan to its labour union to furlough 5,000 cabin crew from next month for as long as a year, a spokesperson told Reuters.
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An internal email, which does not mention the virus, encouraged cabin crew to bring forward any leave plans from later this year to between April 6 and May 5.
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CABIN CREW MEMBER INFECTED More than 100,000 people have been infected in over 0003 countries, according to a Reuters tally based on statements from health ministries and government officials.
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The man's family had also informed cabin crew that the traveler was previously diagnosed with an enlarged prostate, which Zhang suspected was causing a blockage, according to China News.
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A touching new film released by British Airways follows the real-life story of a cabin crew member Helena Flynn, who is flying to India for the first time.
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BERLIN, Oct 31 (Reuters) - Cabin crew union UFO has called off planned strikes at Lufthansa's budget unit Eurowings for this week, the union said in a letter to members.
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Just 50 people, including pilots and cabin crew, will be on board Qantas' marathon nonstop to Sydney, because the aircraft can only handle that range with a reduced payload.
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WATCH THIS: Cabin Crew Delivers Baby Mid-Flight According to local news outlet WSOC, Araujo was 38 weeks pregnant and cleared to fly by the airline and her doctor.
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Last week, British Airways said the Unite trade union had called a strike involving one of its five cabin crew fleets on Christmas Day and Boxing Day (Dec. 26).
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An attempt by Deutsche Lufthansa to avert a planned cabin crew strike at the airline's Germanwings unit failed on Saturday as trade union UFO rejected management concessions as insufficient.
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Cabin crew on the airplane sprang into action on Friday when Nafi Diaby, a woman who was 28-weeks pregnant, went into labor during the flight, according to NBC News.
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More than 2,000 flight attendants from Eva Air's all-female cabin crew have been taking turns to join demonstrations outside the firm's headquarters near Taoyuan International Airport since June 20.
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BERLIN, Sept 11 (Reuters) - Irish low-cost carrier Ryanair warned on Tuesday that labour strikes by pilots and cabin crew in Germany would lead to job cuts if they continued.
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Ryanair pilots and cabin crew are set to stage a full-day walkout on Wednesday as they seek to put pressure on management to offer workers better pay and terms.
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BA said that 'mixed fleet' Unite represented 15 percent of its cabin crew and that the airline was working on a contingency plan to ensure its customers reached their destinations.
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"All cabin crew on the flight have been taken off flight duty for enquiry and corrective training to reinforce strict adherence to operating procedures," Jet Airways said in a statement.
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The three other defendants for whom death sentences were recommended Saturday are documentary producer Ahmed Afify, EgyptAir cabin crew member Mohammed Keilany and academic Ahmed Ismail, according to Saturday's verdict.
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She then flew into a rage after cabin crew were told not to serve her any more booze and repeatedly told staff on the four-hour flight to "F--- off".
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However, budget airline Eurowings cancelled around 60 flights on Tuesday due to a strike by some cabin crew in a separate pay dispute between management and the Verdi labour union.
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On Thursday after almost three years of dispute, Germany's largest carrier and its main cabin crew union agreed a wide-ranging deal on pay and conditions thanks to a mediator.
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Rival low-cost carriers have also been scooping up aircraft that were formerly operated by Jet from its lessors, and poaching hundreds of its pilots, cabin crew and other staffers.
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So Stevens, a TV producer, said cabin crew upgraded her and her friends into business class seats despite having them paid just £22016 ($98) each for an economy return ticket.
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He and his fellow passengers were told of the bombs by cabin crew and saw smoke from the terminal, he told Mashable, before they were transferred to a huge hangar.
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"It will lead on in the New Year to meetings with other EU pilot unions and cabin crew unions in due course as well," Ryanair said in an emailed statement.
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The airline told the German press agency DPA that the menu was made by a cabin crew member to use themselves and was not supposed to be given to passengers.
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DUBLIN, Nov 8 (Reuters) - Ryanair said on Thursday it had reached an agreement with German union Verdi that will be put to local cabin crew for approval on November 13.
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The two-year Collective Labour Agreement covers all the airline's cabin crew based in Germany and confirms the application of German labour law and includes pay increases and other benefits.
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Ryanair declined to comment on whether any crew had been dismissed, but a spokesman said that "no cabin crew have lost, or could lose, their jobs over discretion or fatigue".
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The Passenger Information List (PIL) and Passenger+ systems began as a way for cabin crew to identify passengers with a tight connection and help them rebook while still mid-flight.
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O'Leary also noted "higher staff costs, largely because of the big pilot and cabin crew pay increases we negotiated last year," based on revenue forecasts that the airline ultimately missed.
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Pilots and cabin crew at Ryanair in Germany started a full-day walkout early on Wednesday to put pressure on management in labor talks with Europe's biggest low-cost carrier.
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Lufthansa said last month that the cabin crew deal would boost its earnings before interest and tax by several hundred million euros this year, allowing it to pay a dividend.
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Unions representing about 3,000 of its 5,5003-member workforce said on Wednesday that cabin crew and other workers would strike over wages and plans to cut more than 900 jobs.
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Unions representing about 3,000 of its 5,000-member workforce said on Wednesday that cabin crew and other workers would strike over wages and plans to cut more than 13 jobs.
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DUBLIN (Reuters) - Seven trade unions representing Ryanair cabin crew in five countries threatened on Friday to hold a strike in late September unless the airline agrees to improve working conditions.
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Union leaders at the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa and the South African Cabin Crew Association, which are leading the strike, did not respond to requests for comment.
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Around 180 flights in Germany were cancelled on Monday due to cabin crew strikes at Lufthansa's budget airline Germanwings, in a bid to put pressure on management in wage talks.
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Pilots, cabin crew and ground staff in France were on strike for a 15th day since February on Tuesday and Air France said one in five flights would be canceled.
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Although my colleagues and I are a small number compared to the work forces of the U.S. airlines, Norwegian has more U.S.-based cabin crew than any other foreign airline.
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However, budget airline Eurowings canceled around 60 flights on Tuesday due to a strike by some cabin crew in a separate pay dispute between management and the Verdi labor union.
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Kuala Lumpur-based AirAsia, which flies millions of passengers annually to more than 110 destinations, said it was planning to train between 5,000 and 10,000 frontline staff, including cabin crew.
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Cabin crew will strike at some point in the final days of this year, and details will be announced on Friday, a spokesman for the Ufo union said on Thursday.
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A survey by the U.S. Association of Flight Attendants this year found a fifth of cabin crew respondents had experienced a passenger-to-passenger assault while working on a flight.
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Me and the middle aisle guy are standing up like we are the ant enforcers while the senior cabin crew guy rocks up, armed with… a flashlight and a wet cloth.
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Hopefully, the offender will listen to what the cabin crew has to say in future and be more willing to part with his carry-on for the duration of his flight.
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Ryanair was hit by a number of strikes this year by cabin crew and pilots, forcing the cancellation of hundreds of flights and disrupting travel plans of more than 100,000 customers.
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The chief executive of Qatar Airways recently came under fire for mocking American flight attendants as "grandmothers", and added that "the average age of my cabin crew is only 26 years".
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The group reported a net loss of 274 million euros for 2017 due to a 1.4 billion euro charge linked to a new pension deal for KLM pilots and cabin crew.
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"Luckily for the cabin crew, though, regardless of how many people we have on board, we still need a fully staffed plane, meaning we are still getting all of our hours."
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INDUSTRIAL ACTION In recent weeks Ryanair has been also been hit by the threat of fresh strike action by pilots in the United Kingdom and Ireland and cabin crew in Portugal.
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The Indonesian airline has also won 49 national awards and 15 international accolades since he took the helm, including the World's Best Cabin Crew 2014-2016 in Skytrax World Airlines awards.
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Ryanair suffered a number of strikes last year by pilots and cabin crew, forcing it to cancel hundreds of flights, after the airline recognized unions for the first time in 2017.
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" The International Transport Workers' Federation (ITF), who represent over 600,000 aviation industry workers worldwide, say the most common complaints they hear from cabin crew relate to "physical contact and inappropriate advances.
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Pilots are demanding more transparent systems for promotions and transfers to reduce what they say is excessive management discretion over their careers, while cabin crew want local contracts and better conditions.
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Indicated 13 percent higher Air Berlin has reached an agreement on pay and conditions for its cabin crew, helping it as it embarks on a drastic restructuring, it said on Saturday.
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At the top of the list of cabin crew demands is that all contracts at the airline, which flies in 37 countries, be subject to local law rather than Irish law.
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FRANKFURT, Dec 16 (Reuters) - Cabin crew union UFO said on Friday that three-way talks with Lufthansa's budget carrier Eurowings and fellow union Verdi over pay and working conditions had failed.
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In a statement, Pakistan International Airlines said 16 cabin crew members, who had been staying at the hotel, suffered injuries but most had been discharged from hospital by noon on Monday.
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However, pilots, cabin crew and ground staff were on strike for a fourteenth day since February on Monday and Air France said one in five flights would be canceled on Tuesday.
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More than 2,000 flight attendants from Eva Air's all-female cabin crew took turns since June 20 to join demonstrations outside the firm's headquarters near Taoyuan International Airport, the union said.
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The boy, who was not travelling with any adults, was spotted by British Airways cabin crew who asked to see his boarding pass in order to direct him to his seat.
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BERLIN, Sept 23 (Reuters) - Cabin crew at Lufthansa's budget carrier Eurowings are threatening fresh strike action from October in a row over contracts at the carrier, their union said on Friday.
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According to her, cabin crew gets to bid for flights about a month in advance — if they're lucky and their bids get accepted, they get to fly where they want to.
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"We greatly appreciate the calmness and patience of our PR113 passengers, who cooperated well with our cabin crew during the flight and the emergency landing," Philippine Airlines said in the statement.
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Cabin crew based at the Irish carrier's Charleroi airport base in Belgium challenged Ryanair in a local court, but Ryanair argued that their Irish contracts should be governed by Irish courts.
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Unions representing about 13,000 of its 5,000-member workforce said on Wednesday that cabin crew and other workers would strike over wages and plans to the cut more than 900 jobs.
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Two Belgian unions representing Ryanair cabin crew warned of several more days of strikes in Europe before the end of the year if Ryanair does not change its position in negotiations.
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"The average age of my cabin crew is only 26 years, so there is no need for you to travel on these crap American carriers," al Baker says in the video.
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The country's largest cabin crew union, the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA (AFA-CWA), announced that it is starting a membership drive in an effort to organize Delta's 22010,000 flight attendants.
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At least 50 cabin crew are still refusing to sign the contracts under which "any representation such as unions cease to exist" said Paulo Conceicao, the secretary of the CWR union.
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A spokeswoman for the National Union of Metalworkers South Africa, which called the strike over jobs and wages alongside the South African Cabin Crew Association, said there would be "no surrender".
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It also issues Irish work contracts to cabin crew and senior pilots around Europe, arguing that they work in Irish-registered aircraft and not in the countries where they are based.
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The company, which also makes aviation-themed furniture using retired aircraft parts, turns aircraft interiors into simulators used by cabin crew training institutions, event organizers, movie production companies and advertising agencies.
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The cabin crew wanted to move her, as opposed to him, because the move would have left him with an empty seat on one side and an aisle on the other.
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The group reported a net loss of 274 million euros for 2017 due to a 63 billion euro charge linked to a new pension deal for KLM pilots and cabin crew.
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Final descent is also considered a "sterile period," meaning the flight deck is concentrating on landing the plane, and the cabin crew is not to communicate with it during this time.
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However, the group still needs to strike wide-ranging deals with pilots and cabin crew over pay and conditions, disputes that have seen a series of strikes over the last two years.
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The Association of Flight Attendants, which represents United Airlines cabin crew requested a letter from Boeing engineers affirming whether they feel confidence in the software fix, a spokeswoman for the union said.
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The BA strike over a pay dispute is being staged by members of the airline's "Mixed Fleet", Unite has said, referring to cabin crew staff who have joined the airline since 2010.
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The NTSB will be investigating weather, the ungrooved runway pavement and air traffic control, as well as human aspects -- including the flight and cabin crew -- to determine what led to the accident.
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In 2014, the DGCA had suspended two SpiceJet pilots after one of them left the cockpick to watch a dance performance by the cabin crew as part of the Holi festival celebrations.
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Pegasus Airlines said in a statement that the Boeing 737-800 aircraft "had a runway excursion incident" as it landed but the 162 passengers, two pilots and four cabin crew were unhurt.
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The current strike was called after new contracts talks collapsed between Eurowings, a regional carrier that Lufthansa is using as a basis to expand its budget offering, and cabin crew union UFO.
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Another passenger expressed anger about the incident on Twitter, saying that there were no instructions from the cabin crew about using the masks after it was clear that something was terribly wrong.
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It is easy to sympathise with BA's striking staff in London, where the average property costs more than 23 times a cabin-crew member's salary, based on the airline's own minimum figures.
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Unions representing cabin crew in Spain said this week their plans for 10 days of strikes next month still stood after a round of mediated talks with the airline ended without agreement.
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The two-year Collective Labour Agreement covers all the airline's cabin crew based in Germany and confirms the application of German labour law and includes pay increases and other benefits, Ryanair said.
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Europe's largest low-cost carrier has suffered its worst ever strikes this summer as it struggled to quell protests over slow progress in negotiating collective labor agreements with pilots and cabin crew.
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Pilot costs would be cut by 15 percent and cabin crew by 40 percent under the proposals, which were greeted with scepticism by pilots' unions when presented by Air France last week.
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"Together with yesterday's signing of the agreement with Air France cabin crew, this is proof of our dedication to re-establishing trust with all Air France employees," Smith said in a statement.
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The ballot is a setback for management at Europe's largest low-cost carrier, who have in recent months said they had largely resolved an industrial relations dispute with pilots and cabin crew.
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Its budget unit Eurowings on Monday extended a recruitment drive, saying it now had over 153,000 open positions, including for 300 pilots, 500 cabin crew and more than 200 ground staff jobs.
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The union that represents American Airlines has demanded an investigation into a skit that surfaced over the weekend depicting cabin crew singing "Big Spender" to a man portraying a high-paying customer.
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"We have already provided jobs to more than 100 pilots, more than 200 cabin crew and more than 200 technical and airport staff," said Ajay Singh, chairman and managing director of SpiceJet.
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It also reflects pay awards given by other companies in the UK and will ensure that rewards for Mixed Fleet remain in line with those for cabin crew at our airline competitors.
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Ryanair, Europe's largest low-cost carrier, is already trying to cope with an industrial relations revolt across the region, with pilots and cabin crew staging strikes in several countries over employment conditions.
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Pilots and cabin crew members are prohibited from working past a certain number of hours, meaning Qantas will need to bring extra crew members to allow pilots and flight attendants to rest.
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In response, Condor changed its procedure to make sure their cup lids are provided on all of its flights and "reminded cabin crew of the requirement to use them," the report said.
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An agreement with around 19,000 cabin crew would mean that Lufthansa could now focus on a deal with its pilots on pay and conditions as it battles to reduce its labor costs.
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Zazi Nsibanyoni-Mugambi, president of the South African Cabin Crew Association (SACCA) that is leading the strike with the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA), said the offer was unacceptable.
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A disparity in skills might be a problem in certain industries: for example, easyJet cannot easily promote its cabin crew (69% of whom are women) to become pilots (who are 94% male).
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The pay deal runs until September 2016 and sees around 19,000 cabin crew receiving a one-off payment of 3,000 euros for 2015, plus a pay rise of 2.2 percent from Jan.
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If other space-saving changes such as a new cabin crew rest compartment and a new seat layout are taken into consideration, airlines can add up to 80 more seats, Airbus said.
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Emirates did not comment directly on the screenshots, but said that an internal email on Tuesday told cabin crew to remove a flag pin from their uniforms and replace it with another.
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"For us, the strike continues," Phakamile Hlubi-Majola, spokeswoman for the National Union of Metalworkers South Africa (NUMSA), which called the strike alongside the South African Cabin Crew Association, also told SABC.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - German union Verdi will meet Ryanair in Dublin on Wednesday to start pay talks for around 1,000 cabin crew working in Germany for Europe's largest low-cost airline, it said.
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Cabin crew in Italy will hold a 24-hour strike on July 25 and crew in Spain, Portugal and Belgium will strike for 48 hours on July 25-26, five unions said.
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Emirates did not comment directly on the screenshots, but said that an internal email on Tuesday told cabin crew to remove a flag pin from their uniforms and replace it with another.
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Cabin crew trade union UFO has rejected an offer to mediate a dispute over pay and conditions with Lufthansa's budget flights unit Eurowings, Lufthansa said on Sunday, raising the probability of strike action.
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As far as the cabin crew were concerned, that was the end of the matter, and since there was no threat to aircraft safety, the issue of offloading one passenger did not arise.
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One flight attendant who works for Spirit Airlines said that even at the low-cost US carrier, which doesn't fly anywhere near where the virus originated, cabin crew members were being extra cautious.
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The cabin crew and passengers on China Southern Airlines flight CZ3693 got a rude shock Wednesday morning when a passenger onboard the flight opened the emergency exit door before takeoff from Chengdu Airport.
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First-class passengers want to sleep and eat when they choose, not on a timetable set by cabin crew, as often happens in business class, says Joost Heymeijer, head of Emirates Inflight Catering.
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Workers' representatives had roundly criticized the appointment of a non-French CEO, first reported in the domestic press, in a statement issued by nine major unions representing pilots, cabin crew and ground staff.
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There was some confusion as to whether Ryanair would also recognize unions representing other workers but on Tuesday it confirmed it would also recognize cabin crew unions and would seek talks with them.
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Random alcohol testing for all European airlines and those foreign carriers which fly into the European Union will become mandatory, while flight and cabin crew will also face more testing for psychoactive substances.
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The European Court of Justice in Luxembourg ruled in favor of cabin crew based at the Irish carrier's Charleroi airport in Belgium on the question of which court should decide on their complaint.
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The pay deal runs until September 2016 and sees around 19,000 cabin crew receiving a one-off payment of 09523,000 euros ($3,250) for 2015, plus a pay rise of 2.2 percent from Jan.
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On Thursday, a giant inflatable balloon that read "come home" was seen floating above Eva Air's headquarters, as cabin crew responded with a large sign saying "we couldn't see our way home yet".
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The 40 million euro ($47 million) deal includes some of Air Berlin's operations at Tegel airport, leases for up to 25 A320 aircraft and about 1,000 of Air Berlin's pilots and cabin crew.
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Ryanair suffered a number of strikes last year by pilots and cabin crew, forcing it to cancel hundreds of flights across Europe, after the airline recognized unions for the first time in 2017.
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Pilots and cabin crew deserve much more credit for their bravery in emergency airline situations such as the Southwest Airlines engine failure that resulted in one passenger's death, CNBC's Jim Cramer said Wednesday.
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But it faced a fresh blow on Thursday when cabin crew launched a two-day strike over pay and pensions that will result in the cancellation of 21,20.9041 flights and affect 180,000 passengers.
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Air Berlin, unions VC and Verdi and the works council are asking Air Berlin's pilots, cabin crew and ground staff to work extra shifts, the pilots' union said in a statement on Thursday.
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Zazi Nsibanyoni-Mugambi, president of the South African Cabin Crew Association (SACCA) that is leading the strike with the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA), said the new offer was unacceptable.
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The decision to strike is a setback for management at Europe's largest low-cost carrier, who in recent months said they had largely resolved an industrial relations dispute with pilots and cabin crew.
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Cabin crew members strutted down in their outfits to highlight the care that goes into selecting the design, colour and style of the uniforms flight attendants wear, with traditional costumes sometimes providing inspiration.
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"The industrial unrest in Ryanair across Europe and among pilots and cabin crew is, in my opinion, likely to continue for the foreseeable future," BALPA General Secretary Brian Strutton said in a statement.
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On Thursday afternoon, Loganair, a Glasgow-based regional airline, announced that it would take up 16 of Flybe's routes, and offered to hire some of its pilots, cabin crew and office support crew.
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The Association of Flight Attendants (AFA), which represents cabin crew at about 20 mainline and regional airlines, said it was pleased with the deal, and that it would help employees worried about layoffs.
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" Cleaners told the G.A.O. that "after incidents when a traveler became ill during a flight, the cabin crew does not always notify them of potentially infectious bodily fluids that had contaminated the aircraft.
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Hong Kong-based Cathay Pacific Airways said on Thursday that it would allow cabin crew to wear medical masks while working on flights to or from mainland China, according to Channel News Asia.
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In the same sector, Ryanair popped 3 percent after German union Verdi announced that it would meet with the airline on Wednesday to start pay discussions for 1,000 cabin crew members, Reuters reported.
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Rising wealth and growing travel demands mean that new staff — including 240,000 pilots, 242,000 technicians and 317,000 cabin crew — will be required across the region by 2037, a new report by Boeing found.
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Cause of crash remains a mystery Flight 610 was carrying 181 passengers, as well as six cabin crew members and two pilots, from Jakarta to Pangkal Pinang, on the Indonesian island of Bangka.
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An internal video released by the airline shows how cabin crew warn each other when there's a stag do or someone famous on board — or what to do when there's a marriage proposal.
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Most Boeing 777 and 787 airliners have a secret stairway that leads to a tiny set of windowless bedrooms for the cabin crew — including hidden bedrooms for pilots— that few people know exist.
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But rather than land, the pilot flew on more than two hours to Charlotte, as a nurse and other passengers cared for Johnson because the cabin crew did not know how, the complaint said.
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LONDON, Aug 3 (Reuters) - British Airways "mixed fleet" cabin crew members are set to strike for another two weeks in August, including over a public holiday, as part of a long-running pay dispute.
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Previously, British Airways had put much of the onus on passengers themselves: They were advised tell other passengers around them about their allergy, although the airline said cabin crew could also help further explain.
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"Everyone on the plane was in shock and the cabin crew were surrounding the woman trying to hold her and her husband back from attacking the man," passenger Sequoia Schmidt, 27, told Fox News.
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Several airlines such as British Airways and Emirates still require female cabin crew to wear make-up while working, although in 2016 British Airways did drop its rule that women could not wear trousers.
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Gagey, who struggled over the summer with pilot and cabin crew strikes, was offered the position of Air France-KLM finance chief, to replace Pierre-François Riolacci, who is stepping down, La Tribune said.
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DUBLIN, Sept 26 (Reuters) - Ryanair plans to cancel 150 flights on Friday due to a cabin crew strike rather than the 190 previously announced, the Irish airline said in a twitter post on Wednesday.
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Pilots and cabin crew at Hong Kong's flagship carrier have described a "white terror" of political denunciations, sackings and phone searches by Chinese aviation officials amid anti-government protests gripping the former British colony.
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Portugal's SNPVAC cabin crew trade union met with the Portuguese minister of infrastructure and housing on Wednesday to discuss the labour situation, including the impact of the possible closure of Ryanair's base in Faro.
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Portugal's SNPVAC cabin crew trade union met with the Portuguese Minister of Infrastructure and Housing on Wednesday to discuss the labor situation, including the impact of the possible closure of Ryanair's base in Faro.
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Unions representing cabin crew in Spain said their plans for 10 days of strikes next month still stood after more than seven hours of mediated talks with the airline ended on Tuesday without agreement.
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Cabin crew represented by Verdi will join crews in Belgium, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain and Portugal, as well as German pilots, which have already prompted Ryanair to cancel a total of almost 250 flights.
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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Dutch airline KLM faced sharp criticism on Wednesday for its "antiquated values" after cabin crew told a breastfeeding woman to cover herself up to spare the blushes of other passengers.
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Ryanair pilots across Europe are demanding more transparent systems for promotions and transfers to reduce what they say is excessive management discretion over their careers, while cabin crew want local contracts and better conditions.
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The 1,000 member Cabin Crew Union of LAN Express began a walk-off on Tuesday, citing the duration of rotations and salaries of new employees as sticking points in ongoing negotiations with the airline.
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Ryanair has also threatened to close two bases in the Canary Islands if cabin crew in Spain do not sign up to a collective labor agreement by next week, the ECA said on Wednesday.
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DUBLIN, July 24 (Reuters) - Ryanair cabin crew in Portugal are set to strike for five days in August in a dispute over pay and conditions, the SNPVAC union announced in a statement on Wednesday.
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Female cabin crew who have joined the airline's "mixed fleet" since 2012 have been subject to a dress code that requires a skirt, unless they applied for a waiver on medical or religious grounds.
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With a smaller operating fleet, Jet has given pilots and cabin crew the option of flexible working days and taking extended leave with or without pay, showed a note to staff reviewed by Reuters.
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In April, the 1,000-member Cabin Crew Union of LAN Express, a subsidiary of LATAM, walked off the job, causing about 2,000 flight cancellations in Chile and some regional routes, affecting about 350,000 passengers.
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But Norwegian, which has agreed not to use any Asia-based cabin crew on its transatlantic flights, maintains it will be predominately using U.S.-based crew and American-made planes for the new routes.
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If you're the last to board, then the chances increase that cabin crew will make you gate-check your carry-on bag as the bins get filled by those who boarded ahead of you.
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Cabin crew could use the airline's saved data to wish you a happy birthday, congratulate a couple on their anniversary or even remember that you generally take a glass of white wine upon takeoff.
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NAI does not have any Asian-based cabin crew or pilots, and Norwegian has, and will continue, to publically state that only U.S. and EU-based crew will be used on NAI transatlantic services.
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Cabin crew in Spain and Portugal took part in a walkout across six European countries last month that disrupted the plans of more than 40,000 passengers in one of Ryanair's worse strikes to date.
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The cabin crew are joining Irish Ryanair pilots who on Tuesday announced a strike for July 12, saying Europe's largest low-cost carrier had failed to improve conditions sufficiently after recognizing unions in December.
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I was also genuinely impressed that the chef and cabin crew could put together something so tasty in such a small, cramped galley — even though much of it, obviously, was prepared before the flight.
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FRANKFURT/BERLIN (Reuters) - A trade union representing Lufthansa's cabin-crew on Wednesday threatened strikes that could fall during the busy Christmas period if Germany's biggest airline does not make concessions in a wage dispute.
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The airline draws a lot of business from the Chinese mainland, where the government has told it to bar cabin crew who participate in Hong Kong's pro-democracy protests from flying to Chinese airports.
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The report set out a sequence of glitches and incomplete debriefings as well as a mix-up over paperwork over the number of cabin crew on board when Flight JT610 plunged into the sea.
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" Passenger oxygen masks were not deployed because they, "unlike pilot and cabin crew oxygen systems, are not designed to be used in smoke events as they mix the oxygen supply with the ambient air.
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But last week, seven trade unions representing Ryanair cabin crew in Italy, Portugal, Belgium, Spain and the Netherlands threatened to hold a strike in late September unless the airline agrees to improve working conditions.
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FRANKFURT/BERLIN (Reuters) - A trade union representing Lufthansa's cabin-crew on Wednesday threatened strikes that could fall during the busy Christmas period if Germany's biggest airline does not make concessions in a wage dispute.
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The SNPVAC union, which represents Ryanair Portuguese cabin crew staff, staged a strike early in April over what it says is the airline's failure to recognize Portuguese labour rights, including doctor-approved sick days.
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Qantas said this played a role in its decision, particularly as it's still negotiating how it would compensate its cabin crew for the flights, which could entail working for up to 22 hours straight.
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Emirates staffing levels fell on an annual basis for the first time in its nearly 33-year history, according to its annual report, with more than 2,000 employees leaving the company, including 1,300 cabin crew.
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Assraf Nasir, who works in the cabin crew for Air Asia, according to the Huffington Post, performed a perfect rendition of Spear's pop hit, "Toxic," on-board one of the Malaysia-based airline's empty planes.
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PARIS, July 27 (Reuters) - A week-long strike by cabin crew at Air France could cost more than 40 million euros ($44 million), the chief financial officer of the carrier's parent group said on Wednesday.
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Patel said Jet had failed to respond to its calls and emails and as a result the FX company had reclaimed money from some forex cards issued to pilots and cabin crew for international trips.
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Earlier this week, the carrier's main cabin crew union approved a new deal on pay, conditions and a new pension scheme, meaning contracts are now agreed with two of the airline's three major staff groups.
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The outline deal, reached over the weekend, could end a three-year dispute which forced the cancellation of around 400 flights last October, after cabin crew at budget airlines Eurowings and Germanwings staged a strike.
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With a smaller operating fleet, Jet has given pilots and cabin crew the option of flexible working days and taking extended leave with or without pay, according to a note to staff seen by Reuters.
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The newspaper reported the majority of job cuts were set to fall on pilots and cabin crew and staff have also been warned on the possibility of more roles being cut as it shrinks operations.
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Cabin crew could have taken the "parent on a road trip" route, which would involve making sure everybody went to the bathroom before taking off cause it's six hours to Seattle and we aren't stopping.
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COST-CUTTING Lufthansa's cost-cutting drive to compete with leaner rivals has progressed slowly because of resistance from unions, but it agreed a wide-ranging deal last week on pay and conditions for cabin crew.
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"Some of our outsourced staff, including cabin crew, have stayed away from work from Friday and we are working with their employer to resolve any issues they may have," the airline said in a statement.
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DUBLIN, July 1303 (Reuters) - Ryanair said on Wednesday it would cancel more than 12 percent of its flights on July 25 and 26 due to a cabin crew strike, as its industrial relations crisis escalates.
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The airline is also offering incentives (or, to use the strikers' term, "bribes") for cabin crew members not to strike: those who stay at work get priority for free flights and upgrades to first class.
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"We want all of our customers to be comfortable in whichever cabin they choose to fly, and our cabin crew are trained to deliver excellent service to everyone," British Airways told INSIDER in a statement.
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If a cabin crew does not remember to pressurize the cabin, as with the Jet Airways flight, the gases in your body will expand beyond what they are supposed to, rupturing tissues and causing bleeding.
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The head of Portuguese union SNPVAC, Luciana Passo, also said the dismissals had reduced the chances of averting the strike, which she said she expects to involve the majority of cabin crew in the country.
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LONDON (Reuters) - British Airways "mixed fleet" cabin crew, who make up around 15 percent of BA's total cabin staff, are to stage a 72-hour pay strike from Thursday next week, their union Unite said.
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So it comes as no surprise that the Dubai-based carrier only hires a fraction of the approximately 144,000 applicants it gets for its cabin crew each year, which consists of only around 22,000 people.
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FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Cabin crew at Lufthansa are expected to vote in favor of a wide-ranging pay deal with the German carrier, bringing a long-running dispute to a close, according to a labor boss.
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"The cabin crew notified the pilot that one of the passengers boarded the incorrect flight, and the pilot in command made the decision to return to the originating airport," the airline said in a statement.
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Cabin crew from across Europe published a list of 34 demands on Wednesday, including "a fair living wage", improved sick pay and employment contracts in their own language based on local rather than Irish law.
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I thought it was just people who needed the toilet, so I tried to ignore it, but eventually, the banging got louder and louder until a member of the cabin crew forced the door open.
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Thursday's Air France strike involving the carrier's pilots, cabin crew and ground staff has ended, and as of today, the carrier's operations are slowly returning back to normal, according to a statement on its website.
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He did not disclose which flight the cabin crew member was aboard, and would not confirm if actor Tom Hanks, who is currently in Australia and has tested positive for coronavirus, was on the flight.
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"While the additional cancellations are based on passenger demand, it will also mitigate the health risk to passengers and crews," the Association of Flight Attendants, which represents United's cabin crew, said in a statement Thursday.
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The strike came a day before unions representing cabin crew in five countries - including No. 2 and 3 markets Italy and Spain - were due to announce whether to hold a joint strike later this month.
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The country's fourth-biggest budget airline asked cabin crew staff to take up to four weeks of unpaid leaves in the second half of the year to help it withstand the downturn in passenger business.
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Emirates, which employs approximately 25,000 cabin crew staff around the world, has seen growth hampered by a prolonged period of lower oil prices in recent years — a key driver of wealth in the Gulf region.
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LONDON (Reuters) - British Airways and Britain's biggest trade union Unite will meet to seek an end to a dispute over the wages of some of its cabin crew staff, industrial dispute conciliator ACAS said on Wednesday.
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Among other measures in the FAA reauthorization, airlines must increase flight attendants' required rest time, which may create a need for more cabin crew and reduce airlines' flexibility to recover from delayed flights, ICF's Engel noted.
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Airline spokesman Danang Mandala said in a statement that the one-hour flight was delayed because a panicked passenger opened both emergency exits on the right side of the aircraft without instructions from the cabin crew.
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But three unidentified foreign passengers, as well as the pilot, co-pilot and two cabin crew members, were still aboard the plane, along with the hijacker, EgyptAir said in a Facebook post at 6:30 a.m.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Virgin Atlantic female cabin crew are to be allowed to work without wearing make-up, the company announced, and will be able to wear trousers as a standard option in their signature red uniforms.
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McDowall added that the route withdrawal would result in the disestablishment of Air New Zealand's London cabin crew base consisting of around 130 people and about 25 roles in its Hammersmith sales office and ground team.
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Fernando Gandra, head of the SNPVAC trade union representing striking Portuguese cabin crew, told Reuters the airline had managed the fallout by making major changes to departure times in advance and notifying passengers ahead of time.
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More walk-outs are on the cards as seven trade unions representing Ryanair cabin crew in five countries threatened last week to hold a strike in late September unless the airline agrees to improve working conditions.
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Confronted with an on-board mutiny, cabin crew took the fateful decision to ask the two Arab passengers—who were not accused of any wrongdoing by the airline—if they would mind taking a later flight.
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For August, it cited cabin-crew reports that tuck boxes—trolleys filled with free snacks on long-haul flights—will be removed from Economy, while Club passengers will no longer receive a choice of their starter.
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Even though Boeing has projected that over the next 20 years the aviation industry will need to supply over 2 million commercial airline pilots, maintenance technicians and cabin crew Pilot and Technician Outlook 2017-2036, Rep.
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"Strike notice for all cabin crew duties between 00:00 of the 21st of August until 23:29 of 25th of August was sent today to all the relevant entities," the union said in a statement.
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JOHANNESBURG, Nov 13 (Reuters) - Cabin crew and other workers at South African Airways (SAA) will go on strike on Friday over the struggling state airline's plan to cut more than 900 jobs, unions said on Wednesday.
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Like the New York flight, the London test will serve as a data-gathering mission, with a team of researchers from Sydney University and Monash University monitoring pilots, cabin crew, and passengers' sleep patterns and alertness.
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Ryanair said last month that it would fire 16 Dutch pilots and 15 cabin crew members who refused to relocate after the company's decision to shut its base in Eindhoven, in the south of the Netherlands.
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Already reliant on government handouts to survive, SAA had to suspend hundreds of flights after the South African Cabin Crew Association (SACCA) and the National Union of Metalworkers South Africa (NUMSA) walked out on Nov. 15.
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South Korea's biggest carrier by revenue, Korean Air Lines Co Ltd, has cut global capacity by about 80% - affecting routes including the United States, Italy and Britain - and is offering paid leave for cabin crew members.
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In a video message on Twitter, Ryanair's chief operating officer on Tuesday said the airline will offer Germania pilots, engineers and cabin crew "immediate" starts if they apply for vacancies in Germany, Austria and across Europe.
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On most other aviation safety certificates, including for aircraft and for maintenance, parts and cabin crew, however, Britain said EASA-issued documents would remain valid in the UK for two years from the date of Brexit.
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McDowall added that the route withdrawal would result in the disestablishment of Air New Zealand's London cabin crew base consisting of around 130 people and about 25 roles in its Hammersmith sales office and ground team.
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In late January, Korean Air announced that it had formed an emergency-response team to deal with the spread of the coronavirus, setting up "a thorough process" to prevent infection of employees, including cabin-crew operations.
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A TikTok video showing a SpiceJet cabin crew member smiling and walking down the aisle of an airplane full of passengers was reported by local Indian media this week, drawing criticism by people on social media.
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An innocent passenger on the airline's flight from Chicago to Louisville on Sunday was forcibly removed by airport security after staff realized they didn't have enough seats for their own off-duty cabin crew and pilots.
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The affected workers say the new uniforms feature more than just purple tops and gray slacks — they also come with toxic chemicals that are causing a number of health problems among the airline&aposs cabin crew.
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Cabin crew in Italy, Spain, Portugal and Belgium went on strike on Wednesday and around a quarter of Ryanair's Dublin-based pilots carried out their third 24-hour stoppage in the space of two weeks on Tuesday.
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They all follow roughly the same formula: The morning is spent learning about the nitty gritty of planes, from how the mechanics work all the way down to what the different "bings" alert the cabin crew to.
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In corporate news, Lufthansa cabin crew voted in favor of a new pay and pensions deal provided by the German carrier, ending a long-running dispute between the two parties, sending shares to close down 2.8 percent.
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The deal with trade union Verdi brings the 2,600 cabin crew staff represented by the union, some of whom came from other organizations with their own wage deals, under a single umbrella agreement on pay and conditions.
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The House panel is also scheduled to hear from Airlines for America, an industry group that represents most of the largest U.S. airlines; the Association of Flight Attendants, which represents United Airlines cabin crew members; and Capt.
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Its pilots in Germany voted overwhelmingly on Monday in favour of striking, adding to Ryanair's recent labour woes after strikes last week by Dublin-based pilots and stoppages by cabin crew in Italy, Spain, Portugal and Belgium.
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The 1,000-member Cabin Crew Union of LAN Express, which began a walkoff on April 10, said its workers would not comment on the agreement or its terms until after an assembly and a vote are held.
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DUBLIN (Reuters) - Ryanair is to cancel more than 12 percent of its flights for two days next week in its biggest-ever strike as cabin crew escalate a staff revolt that began among disaffected pilots last year.
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Ryanair, which published a list of cabin crew benefits on Twitter on Wednesday, including pay of up to 40,000 euros per year, said its staff has some of the best conditions in Europe's low-cost airline sector.
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LONDON, Jan 12 (Reuters) - British Airways "mixed fleet" cabin crew, who make up around 15 percent of BA's total cabin staff, are to stage a 72-hour pay strike from Thursday next week, their union Unite said.
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"In-flight cabin crew spotted the bomb threat in the aircraft after landing," AirAsia India said in a statement, adding that a search of the aircraft revealed nothing and the aircraft was allowed to resume normal operations.
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In lieu of a complimentary sandwich six hours after their first meal, travellers on the London to New York route are now presented with one—and only one, according to embarrassed cabin crew—fun-sized chocolate bar.
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The new cabin crew deal, negotiated by a mediator, includes a pay rise of almost 5.5 percent from Jan 2016 to June 2019, plus a one-off payment of 3,000 euros ($3,344), which has already been paid.
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DUBLIN, Aug 14 (Reuters) - Unions representing Ryanair cabin crew in Spain on Wednesday announced plans to hold 10 days of strikes in September unless the Irish airline changes its plans to close several bases in the country.
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Europe's largest budget carrier has spent the last two years negotiating improved pay and conditions with its pilots and cabin crew after a revolt by some staff forced it to recognise trade unions for the first time.
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LONDON (Reuters) - There will be a pause in industrial action among British Airways' mixed-fleet cabin crew in a bid to resolve a conflict over pay and penalties for striking workers, Britain's Unite Union said on Tuesday.
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It has also lost hundreds of pilots, cabin crew and engineers to rivals and seen its valuable slots reallocated to rivals, further eroding any residual value and hopes of new investors stepping in to rescue the airline.
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Its pilots in Germany voted overwhelmingly on Monday in favor of striking, adding to Ryanair's recent labor woes after strikes last week by Dublin-based pilots and stoppages by cabin crew in Italy, Spain, Portugal and Belgium.
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Already reliant on government handouts to survive, SAA had to suspend hundreds of flights after the South African Cabin Crew Association (SACCA) and the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) walked out on Nov. 15.
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"What we need from Ryanair are concrete changes in improvement for cabin crew," said Liz Blackshaw, the campaigns director for the International Transport Workers' Federation, an umbrella group that is affiliated with the unions going on strike.
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NUMSA and another union, the South African Cabin Crew Association, are also seeking a second court order compelling the business rescue experts to implement a training layoff scheme negotiated as part of a wage deal last year.
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But it said it still expected to be able to pay a dividend for this year, because EBIT should be above last year, partly thanks to the cabin crew deal that will help reduce its pension costs.
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The group is still struggling to reach agreement with staff on new pay and pension deals, with last year seeing both pilot and cabin crew strikes, costing the carrier 231 million euros in lost earnings in 2015.
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Citing record profits at the German airline, the Verdi union is calling for a 6 percent pay increase for 13 months for workers it represents in ground services, IT, maintenance and cargo divisions, plus some cabin crew.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Some British Airways cabin crew began a two week strike on Saturday in a prolonged pay dispute, risking further brand damage and travel disruption, although the airline said most passengers would be able to fly.
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Delta Air Lines' new A350s feature LED ambient lighting, and Singapore Airlines' new LED lighting systems offer the cabin crew 16 million color combinations and the ability to simulate sunrises, sunsets and other times of the day.
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It put more than 300 Dublin-based pilots and cabin crew on 90-day notice in July, but withdrew plans to cut it fleet and staff there two months later when it agreed a deal with Irish unions.
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Strikes by staff, including cabin crew as well as pilots, cost Lufthansa 231 million euros in lost earnings last year, though that did not stop it from reporting record profit for the year, helped by low oil prices.
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EasyJet has said it is looking to recruit around 1,000 Air Berlin pilots and cabin crew after taking on some of its operations at Tegel airport in the German capital, covering leases for up to 25 A320 aircraft.
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HONG KONG/SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Pilots and cabin crew at Hong Kong's Cathay Pacific Airways described a "white terror" of political denunciations, sackings and phone searches by Chinese aviation officials amid anti-government protests gripping the former British colony.
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Ryanair, which initially canceled 150 flights due to what it said was an unnecessary strike by a "tiny minority of cabin crew", canceled up to 100 more on Thursday after German pilots said they would join the protest.
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According to the strike plans agreed with the Spanish labor authorities, cabin crew union members would operate all flights between Spanish islands and 50 percent of flights between Spanish islands and the Spanish mainland on the strike days.
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France's SNPNC labor union, which represents cabin crew, said the employees were detained over a two-day period after the daughter of a former Argentine justice minister, who was a passenger on the transatlantic flight, filed a complaint.
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The unions are also demanding staff be free to appoint union representatives without restriction and that cabin crew receive the same terms and conditions irrespective of whether they are direct employees or hired via a third-party contractor.
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DUBLIN/BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Ryanair cabin crew are set to strike in four countries in late July, including in two of its largest markets, threatening to disrupt Europe's biggest low-cost airline at the height of the holiday season.
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Europe's largest low-cost carrier suffered a number of strikes last year by pilots and cabin crew, grounding hundreds of flights across Europe, after it agreed to recognize unions for the first time in 2017 following rostering difficulties.
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Cathay Pacific said no frontline employees, cabin crew or pilots would be affected by the job cuts announced on Monday because the airline was still growing, but staff in those positions would be asked to deliver productivity improvements.
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KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - The families of six cabin crew aboard ill-fated Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 sued the airline on Thursday for negligence and breach of contract, nearly two years after the plane was downed over eastern Ukraine.
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Although Lufthansa still has a long-running row with pilots on its hands, the agreement with cabin crew announced on Tuesday will allow it to reduce staff costs and move ahead with its plans for budget unit Eurowings.
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Airline cabin crew, like pilots and flight attendants, get to see the world on company dime and other professions related to travel have the same perks, like hotel managers, travel agents and publicists at a travel PR firm.
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"We hope these unions will see common sense and work with us to finalize agreements for the benefit of our pilots and cabin crew over the coming weeks without further disrupting our customers or our flights," Jacobs said.
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Ryanair told over 300 pilots and cabin crew earlier on Wednesday that they may lose their jobs as it cuts its Dublin-based fleet by 20 percent after recent strikes hurt bookings and airfares in its home market.
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Pilot alertness testsSletten told Business Insider that she will be looking at the amount of sleep the passengers and cabin crew get leading up to the flight and how much sleep they're able to get during the flight.
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The Association of Professional Flight Attendants, which represents about 26,000 American Airlines cabin crew members, said it would demand pay for the employees who signed up to work the schedules that lack pilots if their flights were canceled.
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Known to speak French, Smith has a track record in dealing with unions, and was the main negotiator in talks with pilot and cabin crew staff at Air Canada that resulted in a 10-year agreement in 2015.
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Eurowings has already opened up vacancies for 1,000-plus pilots, cabin crew and ground staff and said on Friday that it had received more than 2,500 applications from around the world, about half of which were from pilots.
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Cabin crew held a strike over pay and pensions for two days last week, resulting in the cancellation of one in five flights, affecting around 180,000 passengers and costing the airline 10-20 million euros ($11-$22 million).
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SANTIAGO, April 7 (Reuters) - The Cabin Crew Union of LAN Express, a subsidiary of the Chile-based LATAM Airlines group, said workers would strike on Tuesday after mediation with the government failed to produce a new labor contract.
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The cabin crew, who spoke on condition of anonymity saying they feared reprisals if they went public, said staff from several EU countries were forced to travel to Ireland to open bank accounts in order to receive pay.
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But on Friday unions representing cabin crew in Italy, Portugal, Belgium, Spain and the Netherlands threatened in a joint letter to hold "the biggest strike action the company has ever seen" unless changes are made to their conditions.
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Last week, Ryanair decided to close its Spanish bases in Las Palmas, Tenerife South, Lanzarote and Girona from January, putting the jobs of more than 500 pilots and cabin crew at risk, according to the local USO union.
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Cathay was targeted for its sacking of 20 pilots and cabin crew and what staff have described as "white terror", a phrase used in Hong Kong and elsewhere to describe anonymous acts that create a climate of fear.
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Smith, known to speak French, has a track record in dealing with unions, and was the main negotiator in talks with pilot and cabin crew staff at Air Canada that resulted in a 10-year agreement in 2015.
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Reuters has not verified the newspaper reports, and cannot vouch for their accuracy: JP Morgan upgraded its recommendation for Grifols to overweight from neutral British Airways cabin crew plan to hold a 48-hour strike starting on Jan.
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The company is continuing to sell tickets for flights on Friday and is not responding to queries from customers about the status of their flights on that day, the Belgian cabin crew union CNE said in a statement.
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The Condor-run Airbus A330-243 was flying 326 passengers from Frankfurt, Germany, to Cancun, Mexico, when cabin crew gave the pilot a coffee with no lid, according to a report from the Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB).
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Cause of crash remains a mystery The plane, a new Boeing 20053 MAX 8, was carrying 181 passengers, as well as six cabin crew members and two pilots, bound for Pangkal Pinang on the Indonesian island of Bangka.
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Ryanair released the results ahead of its worst-ever week for strike action, with over 26 of its daily 212,214.61 flights cancelled on Thursday and Friday due to action by cabin crew in Spain, Portugal, Italy and Belgium.
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A day earlier, Ryanair Chief Executive Michael O'Leary told staff in a video message that the company had 500 more pilots and 400 more cabin crew than needed, and that job losses would be announced in the coming weeks.
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While the airline secured a breakthrough last month by reaching agreement with striking Irish pilots and said it was hopeful it could soon secure deals in other markets, cabin crew in five countries threatened another major strike on Friday.
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Pilots and cabin crew across the airline's 86 bases began to organize after the cancellation of thousands of flights in late 2017 due to a shortage of standby pilots, which management said was due to a rostering mix-up.
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A flight attendant with a U.S. airline told Mashable that on a flight in 2015, the cabin crew had raised concerns about an unusual smell while the plane was still on the ground, but the pilots continued with takeoff.
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Cabin crew from across Europe earlier this month published a list of 34 demands on July 4, including "a fair living wage", improved sick pay and employment contracts in their own language, based on local rather than Irish law.
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It's literally everywhere, from the plane seats to the incredibly fashionable, Navy-style outfits — "chic sportswear look" — worn by the two members of the cabin crew dancing La La Land-French-style in the promotional video: But there's more.
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Cabin crew in Italy and Spain - Ryanair's second- and third-largest markets respectively - are set to join colleagues in Belgium and Portugal for a one-day strike on July 25, five trade unions said in a statement on Thursday.
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Lufthansa cabin crew and pilots have gone on strike several strikes over the last few years as the airline battles to reduce costs in order to compete with low-cost rivals and long-haul carriers with leaner cost bases.
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According to a new job posting on the website AECOM, the government is looking to hire a few new cabin crew members for flights operated by the U.S. Air Force that depart from McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas.
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Ahead of his surrender and arrest, the lone alleged hijacker had released most of the passengers and crew with only three passengers, the pilot, co-pilot and three cabin crew still on board at the end of the siege.
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Sources told Reuters earlier this week that Jet's pilots and cabin crew, who are owed at least 4 billion rupees ($57 million) in unpaid salaries from January to May, had also sought legal advice on filing an insolvency petition.
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BERLIN, Oct 28 (Reuters) - German cabin crew union UFO has offered new talks to management at Lufthansa's Eurowings and Germanwings, a day after a 24-hour strike forced the budget carriers to cancel hundreds of flights, the union said.
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Indicated 1.6 percent lower Cabin crew at Lufthansa's budget airlines Germanwings and Eurowings are to go out on strike on Thursday for 24 hours in a dispute over pay and working conditions, the UFO labour union said on Wednesday.
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"Workers' rights should not stop at the cockpit door," Nicoley Baublies, UFO board member for pay policy said in a statement on Tuesday, adding cabin crew would also consider industrial action if Ryanair did not negotiate with them too.
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Read more: British Airways has a swanky new business class suite — here's what they look likeOf course, the next potential hurdle would be a request to show a business-class ticket to the cabin crew upon boarding the plane.
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"Our cabin crew access and check the passenger seating system on their iPads on every flight and would be aware of any additional customers who had moved to a different seat than the one printed on their boarding pass."
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Chants rise up: no to deportations, no to turning airline cabin crew into border guards—a reference to Jimmy Mubenga, an Angolan migrant who was restrained on a British Airways flight in 2010 and died following a cardiac arrest.
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Stephen Prosser, 51, from Penygraig, South Wales, told Pontypridd County Court on Friday that British Airways cabin crew ignored his warnings he would be injured if he was forced to sit next to the man, the Press Association reported.
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The gnocchi was flavorsome and comforting, although it wasn't super hot and there were some lumps of cheese that I think should've been melted better (the cabin crew had just whipped off the foil when they got to me).
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The Cathay Pacific Group has fired two cabin crew members over an oxygen bottle which was found tampered with aboard one of its planes, the company confirmed, as it revealed that a seventh depressurized canister was uncovered last Saturday.
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"Ryanair is already engaged in extensive negotiations with national cabin crew unions across Europe during which all of these, and other issues, are being negotiated and we have already concluded agreements in the UK and Italy," the spokesman said.
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Ryanair said cabin crew offered to move the woman to a seat adjacent to her daughter, which it said was normal procedure to defuse what they thought was a row between the passengers, and that she accepted the offer.
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Ryanair has come under fire for the response of its cabin crew — which asked Ms. Gayle to move to another seat nearby, where her daughter was sitting — and for its silence about the encounter in the days that followed.
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News of Virgin Australia's flight cuts comes as the company announced that its customers may have been exposed to COVID-19 after one of its cabin crew members tested positive for the disease after returning to Australia from overseas.
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"There are simply more funds to get and workers are cognizant they're turning out more value," said Sara Nelson, international president of the Association of Flight Attendants, which represents some 50,000 cabin crew members at 20183 airlines including United.
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"I am hopeful that this is (the) beginning of a strong and mutually beneficial relationship between BALPA and Ryanair and I urge Ryanair to agree deals with pilot unions in other countries and with cabin crew unions," Strutton said.
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Members of BA's "mixed fleet" cabin crew - those who work on both long and short-haul flights - have been in conflict with BA since last year over wage offers which the Unite trade union has described as "poverty pay".
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LISBON, Aug 7 (Reuters) - Ryanair has decided to close its base at Faro International Airport in southern Portugal from next year with the loss of at least 120 jobs, the SNPVAC cabin crew union, which had called a strike for Aug.
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"Naturally one cannot travel with two babies on one's lap, so we had to solve the dilemma of missing lap, otherwise it would have been a no go for mom and the kids," wrote cabin crew member Ami Niemelä on Instagram.
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Demanding the reinstatement of the sacked head of the cabin crew association, Rebecca Sy, the Hong Kong Federation of Trade Unions called on Cathay Pacific, which is 30% owned by Air China , to put an end to the "white terror".
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Compared with giving potentially lethal weapons to cabin crew—who, no matter how well trained, will have been selected primarily for their pleasant demeanour (and often their demureness) and not their marksmanship—arming licensed law enforcement officers is clearly preferable.
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HONG KONG/SINGAPORE, Aug 20 (Reuters) - Pilots and cabin crew at Hong Kong's Cathay Pacific Airways described a "white terror" of political denunciations, sackings and phone searches by Chinese aviation officials amid anti-government protests gripping the former British colony.
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Ryanair unions in Ireland, Britain, Spain and Portugal have been planning strikes over various grievances that began with a five-day cabin crew walkout in Portugal on Wednesday and continued with a 48-hour strike by some UK pilots on Thursday.
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"Inspectors are checking the phones of the pilots and cabin crew, going so far as to check their WhatsApp messages and photo albums to see if there are any anti-China materials," a pilot told Reuters in a text message.
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Yet because most cabin crew are so courteous and professional, few of us probably have a good sense of how they would like us to behave so that they can go about their jobs as efficiently and pleasantly as possible.
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Next to me sits Brian, a cheery guy from the Virgin Atlantic cabin crew who earns my undying devotion in just a few minutes for surreptitiously passing me clean tissues as I sob my way through a description of turbulence.
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PARIS/BERLIN (Reuters) - Air France said it would allow female cabin crew and pilots to opt out of flying routes to Tehran after some staff said they did not want to be forced to cover their hair when in Iran.
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Europe's largest budget airline suffered a number of strikes last year by pilots and cabin crew, forcing it to cancel hundreds of flights and hitting profit after a rocky start to its move to recognise trade unions for the first time.
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A group of 20173 unions representing pilots, cabin crew and ground staff at Air France have called for a 22017 percent pay increase this year, saying they want to make up for purchasing power lost over six years of pay freezes.
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The Association of Professional Flight Attendants, which represents American's cabin crew and is not testifying in person at Wednesday's hearing, sent testimony to the House panel that says the issue of trust must be addressed before the plane flies again.
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While KLM had an operating margin of 6.9 percent in 2016, Air France's was just 2.4 percent, which Gagey said was due to strikes by Air France pilots and cabin crew and the impact of Islamist militant attacks on French tourism.
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Passengers on board an IndiGo flight smelled smoke coming from the baggage bin and alerted cabin crew who saw sparks and smoke coming from a Samsung Galaxy Note 2 phone, the airline, owned by InterGlobe Aviation, said in an emailed statement.
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BERLIN, June 30 (Reuters) - Lufthansa and its main cabin crew union have reached a deal in a long-running dispute over pay, conditions and pensions, they said on Thursday, a boost for the carrier which is also negotiating with pilots.
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The DGCA also said that pilots, cabin crew and ground staff who have reported any kind of stress should not be put on duty, and the airline should carry out regular maintenance of its aircraft even if they are currently grounded.
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Ryanair said it complied fully with all European Union and Spanish employment law, adding that an appeal court ruling in the city of Valencia last month meant that Spanish courts had no jurisdiction over Ryanair pilot and cabin crew employment.
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Lufthansa and the cabin crew union UFO have been at loggerheads over a range of issues from pay, pensions, conditions and early retirement benefits, culminating in November when the union staged the longest ever strike in the German carrier's history.
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The unions representing pilots, cabin crew and ground staff plan to go on strike on April 23 and 24, continuing a series of walkouts since the end of February, and said they would update members on new strike dates next week.
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British Airways employees are instructed to wear lipstick and blush at a minimum, Emirates staff are encouraged to undergo a seven-step makeup routine, and United cabin crew are asked to avoid applying makeup in "extreme" colors, according to the DailyBeast.
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"Our pilots earn up to 190,000 euros in Germany (and up to 200,000 euros across Europe), and our cabin crew earn up to 40,000 euros and enjoy excellent working conditions including favorable rosters and unmatched job security," a spokesman said.
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BRUSSELS, June 29 (Reuters) - British Airways will use Qatar Airways planes and crew to fly all its passengers to their destinations during a planned two-week strike by some cabin crew, Willie Walsh, head of BA's parent company, said on Thursday.
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Overall, the agreement, which also includes flexible contracts to better cover seasonal demand, will allow Lufthansa to bring staff costs for cabin crew down by about 10 percent compared to previous projections, Bettina Volkens, Lufthansa board member for HR, told journalists.
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But it has said that a string of strikes by pilots and cabin crew since it recognized trade unions for the first time last December has damaged bookings just as strong increases in oil prices threaten to push up costs.
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LONDON, June 2 (Reuters) - The Unite trade union has notified British Airways that cabin crew members working for the carrier's mixed fleet are ready to hold four more days of strikes, starting on June 16, a spokeswoman said on Friday.
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The historic inaugural flight took off Wednesday as cabin crew handed out roses and passengers took selfies as excitement built on both sides of the border from families and friends who had not seen each other for over two decades.
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In general, it takes a "perfect storm" of errors for a passenger to get past the scanners, flight announcements, gate agents and cabin crew of a modern flight, said Buck Rodger, commercial airline pilot and president of Aero Consulting Experts.
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Europe's largest budget airline suffered a number of strikes last year by pilots and cabin crew, forcing it to cancel hundreds of flights and hitting profit after a rocky start to its move to recognize trade unions for the first time.
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The 1,000-member Cabin Crew Union of LAN Express, which had negotiated for more than two months with the airline, the region's largest carrier, said in a statement it would explain its reasons in a news conference later on Thursday.
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A mother has written a heartfelt Facebook post in praise of United Airlines after cabin crew let her autistic son sit in the aisle of the plane and the first class section during a flight from San Diego to Houston.
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Because the main purpose of this flight was to study how pilots and cabin crew could remain properly rested and alert during ultra-long-haul flights, the four pilots, in conjunction with the researchers, worked out a customized work schedule.
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The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) and South African Cabin Crew Association (SACCA) called a strike at SAA last week after wage talks turned acrimonious and the airline said it planned to cut almost 20% of its staff.
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Ryanair signed agreements to recognize cabin crew unions in Italy and Germany before this week's strike, but the company has also been grappling with a strike by pilots that it said led to the cancellation of flights for 4,000 Irish passengers.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - A German union plans a cabin crew walkout in July at Lufthansa's budget Eurowings unit over a pay dispute, it said on Thursday, adding pressure on the airline while it struggles with rising fuel costs and low revenues.
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The family feud is a major distraction for the loss-making airline which warned this month that the coronavirus outbreak could threaten its survival after it scrapped more than 80% of its capacity and ordered cabin crew to take leave.
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Virgin is also looking to close its New Zealand cabin crew and pilot bases and its pilot base for low-cost arm Tigerair Australia in Melbourne, in a sign it will not be back to business as usual when demand returns.
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DUBLIN, Aug 29 (Reuters) - Ryanair has cancelled less than one percent of its daily schedule of flights to and from Spain over the first two days of planned strikes by Spanish cabin crew, the low cost carrier said on Thursday.
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BERLIN/FRANKFURT, Jan 20 (Reuters) - The following are some of the factors that may move German stocks on Monday: German cabin crew union UFO is planning further strikes at Lufthansa after talks with two potential mediators did not yield any results.
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When an unlucky passenger was violently dragged off a full United Airlines flight in Chicago in April, setting off a public-relations nightmare for the company, the blame naturally fell on the cabin crew, the police and eventually airline executives.
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In a video posted by Passenger Shaming, a popular Instagram account that documents outlandish in-flight behavior, two men can be seen having a heated stand-off after the cabin crew requested all windows be left open during the plane's descent.
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The U.S. National Transportation Board said the captain had "knowingly and unnecessarily exposed 88 passengers and three cabin crew members to the significant likelihood of sudden, serious brain injury or death in the event the aircraft experienced another pressurisation problem".
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The Belgian cabin crew union predicted that the strike would be the biggest ever seen in Europe and cause the cancellation of about 80 percent of flights from Charleroi Airport and probably all of the airline's flights from Brussels Airport.
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LISBON, March 27 (Reuters) - Some Ryanair cabin crew in Portugal will go ahead with one-day strikes during the Easter holidays after Europe's largest low-cost carrier failed to meet their demands on working conditions, the SNPVAC union said on Tuesday.
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DUBLIN, Sept 24 (Reuters) - Ryanair cabin crew in the United Kingdom have voted to approve a collective labor agreement on pay and conditions in the latest step by management to curb a wave of industrial unrest, the airline said on Tuesday.
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LISBON, April 24 (Reuters) - European unions representing Ryanair cabin crew on Tuesday gave the airline until June 30 to adopt national employment laws for all their workers or face industrial action during the summer, the unions said after meeting in Lisbon.
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German services union Verdi, which represents about 1,000 cabin crew at Ryanair and took part in Friday's walkout, called for a reversal of the "scandalous" cuts it said were targeted at bases where a large proportion of staff went on strike.
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The Garuda Pilot Association (APG) had threatened last month that at least 1,300 pilots and 5,000 cabin crew members from the carrier would go on strike, over complaints about management, reduction in flight hours and the removal of annual raises.
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DUBLIN, Sept 24 (Reuters) - Ryanair cabin crew in the United Kingdom have voted to approve a collective labour agreement on pay and conditions in the latest step by management to curb a wave of industrial unrest, the airline said on Tuesday.
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Jet's pilots and cabin crew, who are owed at least 4 billion rupees ($57 million) in unpaid salaries from January to May, had also sought legal advice on filing an insolvency petition, two people aware of the matter told Reuters.
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DUBLIN, July 25 (Reuters) - Irish airline Ryanair has told over 300 over pilots and cabin crew that they may lose their jobs as it cuts its Dublin-based fleet by 20 percent for the winter season after recent strikes hurt forward bookings.
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Europe's largest budget airline suffered a number of strikes last year by pilots and cabin crew, forcing it to cancel hundreds of flights and hitting its profits after a rocky start to its move to recognise trade unions for the first time.
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Parent group Air France-KLM earlier on Wednesday said a strike by pilots in June had cost it around 40 million euros and CFO Pierre-Francois Riolacci said the cabin crew strike could cost more than that, or "several dozens of million euros".
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SEOUL, Feb 12 (Reuters) - South Korea's Asiana Airlines has asked cabin crew members to take unpaid leaves as the flag carrier's China routes have been reduced due to concerns over the spread of the new coronavirus, a company spokesman said on Wednesday.
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An hour into the flight, Libby "became highly intoxicated from drinking Bacardi rum, which he had brought on to the plane himself, and was then aggressive and abusive towards members of the cabin crew and other passengers on board," according to Metropolitan Police.
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DUBLIN, Aug 23 (Reuters) - Ryanair has decided to close its Spanish bases in Las Palmas, Tenerife South, Lanzarote and Girona from January, putting the jobs of more than 500 pilots and cabin crew at risk, the local USO union said on Friday.
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LISBON, Aug 21 (Reuters) - A strike by Ryanair's Portuguese cabin crew started on Wednesday, with the low cost airline warning passengers that a small number of flights may be affected and the government ordering workers to deliver a minimum service to avoid chaos.
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Ryanair last week said it did not expect customers would be disrupted by the action but a spokesman for the SITCPLA union said he did not think disruption to flights could be avoided if cabin crew go through with their strike action.
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"The airline's escalation of the dispute last Wednesday – when it threatened to sack 100 pilots and 200 cabin crew, or transfer them to Poland – led to a predictable hardening of resolve among its staff," Ireland's Forsa/IALPA trade union said in a statement.
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Passengers on board an IndiGo flight spotted smoke filtering from the baggage bin and alerted the cabin crew which saw sparks and smoke coming from a Samsung Galaxy Note 2 phone, the airline, owned by InterGlobe Aviation, confirmed in an emailed statement.
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It was forced to cancel a number of flights last week due to the strike by the cabin crew and pilots over changes to its employment contracts and to demand the reinstatement of LOT's chief union representative, who the airline had also sacked.
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BERLIN, June 20 (Reuters) - A German union plans a cabin crew walkout in July at Lufthansa's budget Eurowings unit over a pay dispute, it said on Thursday, adding pressure on the airline while it struggles with rising fuel costs and low revenues.
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More than 20 issues were being discussed in the mediation process with cabin crew, ranging from pay, details of a pension scheme, working conditions at low-cost carrier Eurowings and terms for moving staff to other airlines in Germany within the Lufthansa group.
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LUXEMBOURG/BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Ryanair lost an EU court battle on Thursday in which the airline had sought to continue forcing cabin crew based outside Ireland to take their disputes to Irish courts, in a case with implications across the low-cost airline sector.
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DUBLIN, Sept 25 (Reuters) - Ryanair will consider cutting its capacity growth plans for this winter and next summer if staff strikes continue, a senior executive said on Tuesday after announcing that 30,000 passengers will be impacted by a cabin crew strike on Friday.
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PARIS, Sept 20 (Reuters) - Air France expects a further decline in bookings over the coming months as a result of the Islamist militant attacks and a cabin crew strike that took place during the summer, the airline's boss Jean-Marc Janaillac said.
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LONDON, June 30 (Reuters) - British authorities have given British Airways the go ahead to use Qatar Airways planes and staff during a planned two-week strike by members of its cabin crew, a spokesman for the Department for Transport said on Friday.
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The regulator also said that Jet's pilots, cabin crew and ground staff who have reported any kind of stress should not be put on duty, and the airline should carry out regular maintenance of its aircraft even if they are currently grounded.
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Norwegian Air maintains that it established its subsidiary in Ireland for access to future traffic rights to and from the EU and to secure better aircraft financing rates, and has agreed not to use any Asian-based cabin crew on transatlantic flights.
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A recognition agreement in Spain will also pave the way for rapid negotiations on a full labour agreement with Spanish pilot union SEPLA and encouraging cabin crew in both Portugal and Spain to quickly conclude agreements, Europe's largest low-cost carrier added.
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DUBLIN, Oct 26 (Reuters) - Ryanair defended on Friday its handling of an incident in which a passenger shouted racist abuse at an elderly black woman, saying cabin crew had not been aware of the nature of his comments until after the flight.
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Expressing its "sincere gratitude" to the cabin crew for their actions during his latest trip, the airline pledged to further investigate the passenger and explore options -- ranging from placing him on a "no-fly" list to requiring someone to accompany him on flights.
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The proxy fight also represents a major distraction to the loss-making airline which warned this month that the coronavirus outbreak could threaten its survival after it scrapped more than 80% of its capacity and put its cabin crew members on leave.
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At budget carrier easyJet, meanwhile, pilots and cabin crew have been asked to take three months' unpaid leave in addition to a pay freeze and other changes to their contracts, such as the axeing of free meals while on shift, the BBC reported.
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Over the last few days, the country's airline cabin crew, food delivery workers, and journalists have faced harassment from law enforcement and the general public for supposedly breaking curfews and being potential coronavirus carriers because of the public nature of their work.
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VIENNA, March 28 (Reuters) - Ryanair cannot rule out flight cancellations due to a planned cabin crew strike in Portugal during the Easter holidays but expects any disruptions to be small, its chief executive said at a news conference in Vienna on Wednesday.
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FRANKFURT, Jan 30 (Reuters) - German cabin crew union Ufo does not plan to announce strikes at Lufthansa on Thursday, a spokesman said after a newspaper had earlier cited company sources as saying the union was planning to announce walkouts later in the day.
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DUBLIN, July 5 (Reuters) - Unions representing Ryanair cabin crew in Portugal, Spain and Belgium on Thursday announced two days of strike action for late July, and said further action may follow if the Irish airline does not make concessions on employment terms.
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SHANGHAI/TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan's foreign ministry said on Wednesday it had protested to Dubai-based airline Emirates over reports that the carrier asked Taiwanese cabin crew to stop wearing the flag of the self-ruled island on their uniforms, under pressure from Beijing.
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OTTAWA/MONTREAL (Reuters) - A Canadian airliner with 54 passengers on board had to swerve to avoid an unmanned flying object near Toronto early on Monday, slightly injuring two cabin crew, in the most serious case of its kind in Canada, officials said.
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After the crash, Europe's aviation safety authority EASA imposed a rule that two crew members should be in the cockpit at all times, meaning that if one of the pilots needed to step out, a member of the cabin crew should step in.
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If cabin crew cannot legally request that women shift themselves to accommodate others' religious beliefs, then there seems to be only two options open when flare-ups occur: either the men must take their seats for take-off, or be removed from the plane.
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"On Monday, 29 July, officers based at Heathrow Airport arrested a 29-year-old man on an in-bound flight on suspicion of sexual assault, being drunk on board an aircraft and failing to comply with the orders of cabin crew," the spokesperson says.
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That incident followed a China-bound Thai AirAsia flight just a month earlier, which was forced to return to Bangkok after a female Chinese passenger threw hot water on a flight attendant amid a heated argument between her boyfriend and the cabin crew over service.
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Ryanair reacted by threatening 100 pilots and 200 cabin-crew in Dublin with redundancy if they did not agree to the airline's terms, saying that it would move six of its 30 aircraft based there to Poland, where demand for its flights is growing faster.
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Back in 2009, when the industry lost a collective $9.4bn, following a collapse in demand caused by the global financial crisis, the argument made sense—particularly in relation to older cabin crew, some of whom joined the company on ludicrously generous contracts before privatisation.
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Strikes are not uncommon in aviation — British Airways' cabin crew staged 85 days of industrial action across 2016-17 — but Ryanair's are particularly damaging, as the airline is unable or unwilling to take expensive mitigation measures such as hiring replacement aeroplanes with external crews.
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Asked about the incident in India, a spokesman for Europe's air safety regulator, the European Aviation Safety Agency, referred to previous guidance stating passengers should inform cabin crew if any electronic device is damaged, hot, produces smoke, is lost, or falls into the seats.
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The airline will look to recruit around 1,000 Air Berlin pilots and cabin crew, on local contracts and has also written to crew at its Hamburg base, which it is closing, to say there is a place for them in Tegel if they want.
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The pregnant star celebrated her big day with a Pan Am-themed bash as guests traveled back in time and got in the retro '60s spirit with cabin-crew chic costumes including block color tops, pencil skirts, pillbox hats as well as double-breasted ensembles.
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"Officers based at Heathrow Airport arrested a 29 year-old man on an in-bound flight on suspicion of sexual assault, being drunk on board an aircraft and failing to comply with the orders of cabin crew," they said in a statement to Reuters.
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Civil aviation authorities should "require" carriers to teach staff to identify and respond to trafficking, the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) said in new training guidelines for cabin crew co-published on Monday with the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.
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Phakamile Hlubi-Majola, spokeswoman for the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) which called the strike alongside the South African Cabin Crew Association, told journalists it was now consulting with its members at other organisations in the industry on a secondary strike.
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Tlali said negotiations on wages, job cuts and other labor issues were ongoing, as did Zazi Nsibanyoni-Aniyam, president of the South African Cabin Crew Association (SACCA) union, which together with the National Union of Metal Workers South Africa (Numsa), called the strike on Friday.
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Last week the head of the union representing American Airlines cabin crew implored Boeing to involve flight attendants in the process of recertifying the 737 Max, saying that some crew are literally begging not to fly on the plane when it returns to service.
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Cabin crew said at a media briefing they were forced to physically report to work when sick to provide written details of symptoms and struggled to claim sick pay as their terms and conditions often straddled the law of Ireland and their home country.
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"Due to the efforts of the Spanish government minimum services regulator and the support of our pilots and cabin crew in Spain, we expect to operate a full schedule of flights to/from (and within) Spain on Tuesday Jan 8," Ryanair said in a statement.
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SHANGHAI/TAIPEI, May 31 (Reuters) - Taiwan's foreign ministry said on Wednesday it had protested to Dubai-based airline Emirates over reports that the carrier asked Taiwanese cabin crew to stop wearing the flag of the self-ruled island on their uniforms, under pressure from Beijing.
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Supporters of the cabin crew have also blamed the corporate culture of many Asian service-sector companies that insist the "customer is always right" while, according to critics, ignoring employees' welfare -- especially after it was revealed the passenger appeared to be a repeat offender.
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Jamie Zhu was flying with Cathay Pacific and, after buying a moon boot at Sydney Airport, told the cabin crew that his ankle was broken and that the boot wouldn&apost fit in his economy seat — so he was apparently upgraded to business class.
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BERLIN, Sept 11 (Reuters) - Irish low-cost carrier Ryanair is cancelling 150 out of a total 400 flights scheduled to fly to and from Germany on Wednesday due to a full-day strike by pilots and cabin crew, Ryanair Chief Marketing Officer Kenny Jacobs said.
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Irvin Jim, General Secretary for the National Union for Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA), which called the strike alongside the South African Cabin Crew Association (SACCA), said the unions would meet with Minister of Public Enterprises Pravin Gordhan on Tuesday to discuss the strike.
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But correlating those two facts hammers home the idea that the job of cabin crew is to be gawped at; that if a stewardess has lost her looks, she should be discarded and replaced by a younger model, regardless of how good she is at her job.
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A lot of airline advertising and marketing sexualizes women too—you only have to look at the Vietjet ad which featured lingerie-clad models on a plane, or the infamous 2013 Ryanair charity calendar that photographed female cabin crew in bikinis and was banned in Spain.
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Around a quarter of its Dublin-based pilots staged their third 24-hour stoppage in two weeks on Tuesday while cabin crew in Italy, Spain, Portugal and Belgium began a two-day strike on Wednesday, prompting Ryanair to cancel more than 12 percent of its flights.
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While Italian union ANPAC suspended a strike due to take place between 1400 and 1800 GMT on Friday, the FIT-CISL transport union, which represents a smaller number of Italian pilots and some cabin crew, said the planned four-hour strike on Friday would go ahead.
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Pilots and cabin crew at Ryanair began to organize following a wave of cancellations at the airline in the second half of last year, and in December the airline gave in to growing pressure and recognized trade unions for the first time in its 32-year history.
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The inside covers of each issue have little airplane-safety pictograms that mention famed comics author Matt Fraction and Chelsea Cain as "your in-flight cabin crew," which makes me suspect that it's possibly more of a collaboration, with Matt and Chelsea writing the final scripts.
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Mr. Barber, a former British Airways pilot, and Ms. Lee, head of a British Airways cabin crew team, had been considering starting a small Internet sales business in the east of England after he took early retirement in 2009 and she began to work part time.
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"After these two days of hearings it is clear there were serious breakdowns in the supervision of the 737 Max," Lori Bassani, president of the Association of Professional Flight Attendants, which represents American's 28,000 cabin crew members, wrote in a letter to Boeing's CEO on Oct. 30.
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In her letter, which was addressed to Civil Aviation Minister Suresh Prabhu and Prime Minister Narendra Modi and tweeted on Tuesday, the cabin crew member said she was a "proud single mother" working for Air India, but was "denied positions and privileges" after she "rejected his advances".
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Qantas would need permission from Australia's aviation regulator to fly the route, as cabin crew members would need to be on duty for more than 0003 hours — even with extras on board to facilitate rest periods — and the airline would need a new deal with pilots.
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The agreement comes just days after cabin crew also agreed a new collective agreement, thus removing two sources of uncertainty for Air France as it seeks to bring costs down and battle competition from the Gulf carriers on one side and budget rivals on the other.
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"Facing the intransigence from Ryanair and the lack of interest of the Portuguese government on guaranteeing the fundamental labor rights to their citizens that work for Ryanair, the cabin crew had no other choice but to return to the industrial conflict," SNPVAC said in a statement.
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No changes to text) PARIS, Sept 20 (Reuters) - Air France expects a further decline in bookings over the coming months as a result of the Islamist militant attacks and a cabin crew strike that took place during the summer, the airline's boss Jean-Marc Janaillac said.
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Earlier in November, the head of the union representing American Airlines cabin crew implored Boeing to involve flight attendants in the process of re-certifying the 737 Max, saying that some crew are literally begging not to fly on the plane when it returns to service.
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The Supreme Court upheld an appeals court ruling that said forcing an on-the-ground plane to return to its gate cannot be seen as "route deviation," but found Cho guilty of abusive language and actions against cabin crew and forcing a crew member to disembark.
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It's standard security on this flight, so nobody "special" — meaning people like air marshals, Secret Service agents, or federal flight deck officers, who carry weapons — will be on board, and the cabin crew will have to rely on able-bodied passengers for help in an emergency.
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Each pilot will get compensation of 100,000 rupees out of the fine amount, while each member of the cabin crew will receive 50,000 rupees, and each passenger will be paid 25,000 rupees for the "misery" the incident caused, according to a statement released by the National Investigation Agency (NIA).
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Edinburgh News reports that fiscal depute Jade Doidge recounted the incident in court on Monday, as told by the cabin crew: The crew "scooped the battery up and placed it in a cup of water to cool it down," Doidge said, to prevent a fire on the plane.
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"We are pleased to sign this CLA agreement with Verdi, which will lead to pay improvements and other benefits for our German based cabin crew, subject to them voting in favour of this agreement over the coming week," Ryanair's Chief People Officer, Eddie Wilson, said in a statement.
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"Given the adverse environment that's out there for airlines and the number of job losses being reported in recent weeks both by pilots and cabin crew, there is a much more sensible, common sense approach being taken by the unions," Chief Executive Michael O'Leary said in a video presentation.
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FAA guidance issued in 2018 noted that passengers checking spare lithium ion batteries in luggage is prohibited, and instead advised that they be removed and carried in the passenger cabin:Smoke and fire incidents involving lithium batteries can be mitigated by the cabin crew and passengers inside the aircraft cabin.
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The airline's decision to begin redundancy consultations with over 100 Dublin pilots and more than 200 cabin crew who were issued with 90-day protective notice was a "reckless" and "provocative" move that will likely harden the pilots' resolve, the Forsa/IALPA trade union said in a statement.
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Seattle (CNN)An unruly passenger who authorities say was trying to open an exit door on a Delta Air Lines flight to Beijing fought with the cabin crew and a passenger and was conked over the head by a flight attendant with two wine bottles, a criminal complaint alleges.
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"We are left with no choice but to resort to this drastic action by withdrawing our labour and going on strike," Zazi Nsibanyoni-Anyiam, president of the South African Cabin Crew Association, told a joint press briefing with the National Union of Metal Workers of South Africa (NUMSA).
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Ryanair had already canceled 150 flights scheduled for Friday due to the cabin crew action when it announced on Thursday that "under 100" flights would now also not operate in and out of Germany after the Vereinigung Cockpit (VC) called on pilots to join the 24-hour strike.
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"We are left with no choice but to resort to this drastic action by withdrawing our labor and going on strike," Zazi Nsibanyoni-Anyiam, president of the South African Cabin Crew Association, told a joint press briefing with the National Union of Metal Workers of South Africa (NUMSA).
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The 40 million euro ($47 million) deal, which includes some of Air Berlin's operations at Tegel airport, leases for up to 25 A320 aircraft and the taking on of about 1,000 of Air Berlin's pilots and cabin crew, will make easyJet the largest carrier in the German capital.
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As the Independent first reported, Leeds resident Faizah Shaheen had returned from her honeymoon in Turkey on July 25 and had arrived at Doncaster Sheffield Airport; there, after she went through passport control, police stopped her because a cabin crew member of Thomson Airways had reported her for apparent suspicious behavior.
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The man, Stephen Prosser, 51, from Penygraig, South Wales, said in court on Friday that he told cabin crew he would be injured if he had to sit next to a certain passenger who was allegedly obese, weighing more than 300 pounds and standing 6 feet 4 inches, CNN reports.
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MONTREAL/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Reports of unruly passengers disrupting airline flights have soared almost 223 percent worldwide in 235, with incidents such as passengers being verbally abusive or refusing to obey cabin crew occurring on one out of every 2000,228 flights, the international trade association for airlines said on Wednesday.
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"An increase in leasing expenses due to significant fleet expansion, as well as our initiatives to improve working conditions and increase salaries for cabin crew, led to a decrease in the overall financial result compared to the same period last year," Aeroflot's Deputy CEO for Commerce and Finance Shamil Kurmashov said.
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In Australia, men were more likely to right-swipe on a flight attendant than any other profession, while women were coo coo for swimming coaches first, with students and cabin crew members (not sure how they differ from flight attendants, but carry on) coming in a close second and third.
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Norwegian will be opening a base for its pilots and cabin crew at the T.F. Green Airport in Providence, R.I., and the Stewart International Airport just north of New York City, stationing a Boeing 2628-MAX plane at each base, which the company says will create an additional 28503 jobs.
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Korean Air, which had a cabin crew member test positive for the coronavirus, said last week it would measure the temperature of all passengers for flights to the United States - which has said it will screen travellers from South Korea - and turn away passengers whose temperature exceeds 37.5 Celsius (99.5 Fahrenheit).
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In a series of calls, the head flight attendant lets the rest of the cabin crew and the first officer know that the cabin is ready, the doors are armed, and the plane is ready to push back from the gate, as well as approximately how long the taxi will be.
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I have an hour-long briefing with the other cabin crew I'm working with today, and we spend an hour and a half getting to our aircraft and preparing it for the flight — the ladies get the newspapers, magazines, earphones, and toiletries ready while the gentlemen ensure that the meals are correct.
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"They will be showcasing what they do on the job every day, often a side of flying that people rarely get to see — like an A380 wheel change, a day in the life of a cabin crew member, or the perspective from a tug driver who pushes back an aircraft," she added.
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"Our hope is that we're going to cover the majority of the operation both in the UK and Ireland, and unless you hear from us, your flight is going ahead as normal," Eddie Wilson told Reuters in a telephone interview, adding that planned action by Portuguese cabin crew next week would be minor.
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Carol Ng, the chairwoman of the Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions and a union representative for the Hong Kong Cabin Crew Federation, said early on Wednesday afternoon that about 30 flight attendants from Cathay Pacific, Cathay Dragon and other airlines were at the demonstration, albeit not as part of an official protest.
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"As the strike has finally come to an end, EVA will gradually resume scheduled flights by the end of July and will make necessary adjustments to its service operation in August depending on the number of cabin crew able to work and passengers' travel demand," the firm said in a separate statement.
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"What would be helpful would be some kind of consent training built in before new starters have their first flight—down route it's common for off duty cabin crew to drink lot of alcohol, and I know female colleagues who have ended up in bed with somebody and it's not necessarily been consensual," Esme says.
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The following are some of the factors that may move German stocks: Indicated 0.4 percent higher German airline Lufthansa and its cabin crew union will present the details of a deal over pay, pensions, early retirement and working conditions in a long-running dispute that saw the longest-ever strike in the carrier's history.
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Europe's largest budget airline suffered a number of strikes a year ago after a rocky start to its move to recognize unions for the first time, and is under pressure again with pilots in its home market threatening to join cabin crew in Portugal and pilots in Britain on the picket line this month.
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A loans-only bailout "will saddle airlines with so much debt that it will lead to bankruptcy and workers (who are right now on the front lines of this virus) will be hurt again," Sara Nelson, president of the Association of Flight Attendants, which represents some 50,000 cabin crew members, wrote to Senators on Saturday.
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Bjørn Kjos, Norwegian Air Group's founder and CEO, emphasized in a blog post on The Hill that it will not be using any Asian-based cabin crew on transatlantic flights, and said Asian long-haul pilots for Norwegian earn about 96 percent of what long-haul pilots in Norway make, despite different costs of living.
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