Passenger severely damaged A350 Cabin
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How? He did not believe the cabin crew who told him he could not stow his luggage in the overhead lockers ,(because there weren't any above his seat)
http://www.airlive.net/news-disgruntled-cathay-pac...
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DoctorX said:
el stovey said:
They have overhead lockers but often there are fake covers where the overhead crew rest areas are. I suspect our friend didn't believe there wasn't a locker behind this one.
Overhead crew rest areas? 
http://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-ideas/best-of...
I sincerely hope Cathay Pacific's legal department send him a letter seeking to recover costs (parts, labour, delay etc). The bill would probably make him physically sick, which would be a good thing and a warning for anyone else too self-assured to just do what they're effing told by the crew.
el stovey said:
I'm not sure if you're whoosh parroting me but on a long flight there are usually crew above you in the roof in rest areas. That's why some of the overhead lockers have false fronts, because they are where the rest areas are.
http://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-ideas/best-of...
Not at all, just had an image of someone trying to stuff a bag into a locker where a member of cabin crew is having a kip.http://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-ideas/best-of...
ETA interesting stuff, didn't realise they had an attic.
wolfracesonic said:
I wonder how they get into the 'attic'? Slide a bit of fiberglass covered plywood to one side, then grope around in the dark for a light switch?
If you go to the back of the cabin there is a ladder in the galley/crew area that leads to it. They have the same on some 777s.
On the A380s, there is a pod that lives in the hold area of the plane which you descend down a ladder to access, to a pod of 8-12 bunks for the crew to sleep in. It is like being on a submarine, and it was clear to me at this point I am too large to be cabin crew.
Otispunkmeyer said:
wolfracesonic said:
I wonder how they get into the 'attic'? Slide a bit of fiberglass covered plywood to one side, then grope around in the dark for a light switch?
Shirley a ladder from a crew galley area?On the Boeing 777 the rest area is midships above the passenger cabin reached by a vertical ladder. Two seats eight bunks. Flight crew bunks are at the back of the first class cabin.
This was all some years ago and I'm sure that with new aircraft the configuration has changed.
Shakermaker said:
On the A380s, there is a pod that lives in the hold area of the plane which you descend down a ladder to access, to a pod of 8-12 bunks for the crew to sleep in. It is like being on a submarine, and it was clear to me at this point I am too large to be cabin crew.
The only thing to do would be maximise the room and bunk up with one of the female cabin crew.markmullen said:
Shakermaker said:
On the A380s, there is a pod that lives in the hold area of the plane which you descend down a ladder to access, to a pod of 8-12 bunks for the crew to sleep in. It is like being on a submarine, and it was clear to me at this point I am too large to be cabin crew.
The only thing to do would be maximise the room and bunk up with one of the female cabin crew.Shakermaker said:
markmullen said:
Shakermaker said:
On the A380s, there is a pod that lives in the hold area of the plane which you descend down a ladder to access, to a pod of 8-12 bunks for the crew to sleep in. It is like being on a submarine, and it was clear to me at this point I am too large to be cabin crew.
The only thing to do would be maximise the room and bunk up with one of the female cabin crew.
Scanning the hold luggage for cabin crew before it is taken away to the aircraft, for those going on long-haul trips: All kinds of ann summers merchandise and so forth, including one petite young thing with a monster double-ended bit of kit. This is all stuff that goes in the hold, thankfully, rather than cabin baggage. But I also saw a chap having a set of furry handcuffs removed from his cabin baggage who worked for one of the low cost carriers (where the crew bags go in the aircraft).
On the cleaning side of things - the crew bunks have come back with every possible bodily fluid on them. Most common is vomit, as you'd expect perhaps from a rough flight or dodgy meal perhaps, and the crew mostly manage to clean that up. but when they've wet themselves, or worse, shat themselves or done so in the bunk, its just the worst. But even more unpleasant is the jizz you find - I don't know if they don't understand how condoms work, or if they are having a hand shandy in the middle of the night or what, but clearly they are doing this in some point on duty.
Passengers do this as well. Very early on when I started at the airport and was just looking after the disabled customers, I met one flight that had come in from Canada or the USA, and I was waiting with my wheelchair at the end of the jetty for the passenger, as soon as the door opened, the cabin crew said to me "y'all'll probably wanna just leave that for them to look after themselves" to whcih I politely said I would wait for them (as I should) but then this woman came up to me, before anyone else came off the plane, and she had s
t up her t shirt, trousers, she properly stank, and then her husband came as well carrying their disabled son who had a nasty accident with a colostomy bag at some point over the Atlantic. I did indeed leave them with the wheelchair to go and sort themselves out. Felt rather sorry for them any everyone else nearby at that. Coincidentally I took departing passengers to the same aircraft a few hours later and saw the engineers who had been out and had to replace the carpet and seat covers on 8 seats such was the "damage"
On the cleaning side of things - the crew bunks have come back with every possible bodily fluid on them. Most common is vomit, as you'd expect perhaps from a rough flight or dodgy meal perhaps, and the crew mostly manage to clean that up. but when they've wet themselves, or worse, shat themselves or done so in the bunk, its just the worst. But even more unpleasant is the jizz you find - I don't know if they don't understand how condoms work, or if they are having a hand shandy in the middle of the night or what, but clearly they are doing this in some point on duty.
Passengers do this as well. Very early on when I started at the airport and was just looking after the disabled customers, I met one flight that had come in from Canada or the USA, and I was waiting with my wheelchair at the end of the jetty for the passenger, as soon as the door opened, the cabin crew said to me "y'all'll probably wanna just leave that for them to look after themselves" to whcih I politely said I would wait for them (as I should) but then this woman came up to me, before anyone else came off the plane, and she had s
t up her t shirt, trousers, she properly stank, and then her husband came as well carrying their disabled son who had a nasty accident with a colostomy bag at some point over the Atlantic. I did indeed leave them with the wheelchair to go and sort themselves out. Felt rather sorry for them any everyone else nearby at that. Coincidentally I took departing passengers to the same aircraft a few hours later and saw the engineers who had been out and had to replace the carpet and seat covers on 8 seats such was the "damage"Gassing Station | Boats, Planes & Trains | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff