Aviation roulette
Melanie Phillips in the Daily Mail has
welcome praise for BA’s cabin crew.
Published 19th May 2010
Excepts from the article.
On Willie Walsh and the cabin crew
“Willie Walsh, BA's pugnacious chief executive, yesterday blamed
the strikes and the threat of further, indefinite, 'guerrilla'
action on a small group of BASSA hardliners. But I really did
scratch my head a bit at this - because the votes for these strikes
have been pretty overwhelming. And yet, speaking from my own
personal experience, the typical BA cabin crew member doesn't seem
hardline at all.”
On her fear of flying
“Gradually, I lost this terrible fear. And one of the main
reasons I did so was the kindness and professionalism of the BA
crews.”
On the crew
“… the attentiveness of the crew keeps me loyal … when I look at
these BA cabin crews I see the unthreatening faces of Middle
Britain - sensible, orderly, down-to earth people, as far removed
from stroppy left-wing militants as you could imagine … ”
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For those in Britain who need to travel the world, flying has
turned into a nightmarish game of aviation roulette…
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