crosscheck
October 25, 2000, 08:07 PM
As I'm sure a lot of you are aware, a young lady (28) very sadly died of a blood clot which had formed in her leg (DVT) during her 20 hr flt from Australia to the UK. They are calling it "Economy Class" syndrome now. Whilst I don't think ANY of us would dispute the fact that our "Y" cabins are about as tight as it gets (some more than others), I did take exception to something that was said on TV today.
A leading "TV" Doctor (who I did like, but is now on my shit list) was doling out advice about what to do to prevent DVT. He said that it was imperative that pax get up and walk around the cabin once in a while. No dispute there. But he went on to say that pax should get up for a walk even though it annoys the cabin crew who can't get their meal carts and duty free bits along the aisle. He incinuated that f/a's were part of the problem.
On another program (they've been doing this to DEATH over here today) one lady said that when the "stewardess" has finished her safety demo, she (as none of us are guys) should warn passengers about DVT and warn them not to drink alcohol, and to keep doing little excercises with their feet...blah....blah. WHAT???!!!! Don't we ALREADY try to discourage people from drinking??? I know that we've all stuck those window blinds down on long sectors and tried to get them off to sleep, but WHY does everything seem to be OUR fault??? Why are the travelling public so retisent to admit that THEY should be more aware of the effects of flying? God knows the information is out there.
Whilst I feel badly for the family of the young lady in question, I am fed up with people knocking us. We work hard and take major amounts of cr*p from people who don't UNDERSTAND the job. It's high time pax took responsability for THEMSELVES and stopped trying to blame everything on crew.
Your thoughts?????
"Happy Landings and hours of crew rest to you all"
A leading "TV" Doctor (who I did like, but is now on my shit list) was doling out advice about what to do to prevent DVT. He said that it was imperative that pax get up and walk around the cabin once in a while. No dispute there. But he went on to say that pax should get up for a walk even though it annoys the cabin crew who can't get their meal carts and duty free bits along the aisle. He incinuated that f/a's were part of the problem.
On another program (they've been doing this to DEATH over here today) one lady said that when the "stewardess" has finished her safety demo, she (as none of us are guys) should warn passengers about DVT and warn them not to drink alcohol, and to keep doing little excercises with their feet...blah....blah. WHAT???!!!! Don't we ALREADY try to discourage people from drinking??? I know that we've all stuck those window blinds down on long sectors and tried to get them off to sleep, but WHY does everything seem to be OUR fault??? Why are the travelling public so retisent to admit that THEY should be more aware of the effects of flying? God knows the information is out there.
Whilst I feel badly for the family of the young lady in question, I am fed up with people knocking us. We work hard and take major amounts of cr*p from people who don't UNDERSTAND the job. It's high time pax took responsability for THEMSELVES and stopped trying to blame everything on crew.
Your thoughts?????
"Happy Landings and hours of crew rest to you all"