Reading Time: < 1 minute Air Serbia, the national airline of the Republic of Serbia, made history this afternoon when its first all-female flight and cabin crew took to the skies. The special flight, JU314, departed Belgrade for Paris at 5:05 pm, with Captain Vesna Aleksić and First Officer Mirjana Stojilković at the controls. Looking after guests on the flight […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute UK-based cabin trainer manufacturer EDM has introduced virtual reality (VR) headsets in cabin crew training to meet an increasing demand from airlines for the modern technology. The headsets will be used in conjunction with EDM’s existing fuselage mock-ups. EDM’s product range also includes replicas of aircraft doors to instruct flight attendants on how to open […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute A Russian court has rejected a lawsuit filed by an Aeroflot flight attendant who accused the national airline of discrimination based on body size. Moscow’s Tushino District Court said on April 18 that there were “no grounds” to rule in favor of the plaintiff, Irina Iyerusalimskaya. Iyerusalimskaya was seeking to force Aeroflot to to drop […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute Latvian airline airBaltic is hosting its “open door” initiative in Estonia for young professionals seeking to become part of the carrier’s development under Horizon 2021 business plan. Daiga Ergle, SVP Human Resources of airBaltic: “airBaltic has started a very exciting year – we have at least 12 new destinations on our route map for better […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute U.S.-based Cathay Pacific Airlines flight attendants joined the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA (AFA). In a union representation election that concluded January 26., the National Mediation Board (NMB) announced that 97% of the voters elected AFA as their collective bargaining representative. Cathay Pacific is the flag carrier of Hong Kong. Cathay Pacific operates multiple cabin crew […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes British Airways (BA) said it canceled 11 flights out of London Heathrow as a two-day strike by some cabin crew began. The dispute is over what the Unite trade union describes as “poverty-level pay” for members of BA’s “mixed fleet” cabin crew. Mixed fleet staff serve both short- and long-haul services out of Heathrow. The […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Finland flag carrier Finnair has extended the lease on an Iberia Airbus A330 until May 31 because of A350 crew training delays. The A330 had been scheduled to leave the fleet Jan. 31. The oneworld carrier had planned to use the A330 on its 3X-weekly Miami route only from Jan. 10-31, but this 21-day lease […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Deutsche Lufthansa AG will once again hire more than 3000 new staff this year. It is mostly flight attendants who will join the various airlines of the Lufthansa Group in 2017. Lufthansa, Germany’s biggest airline, will hire 1400 flight attendants at the hubs in Frankfurt and Munich alone; overall the Lufthansa Group airlines will hire […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes Air Belgium seems to be one step closer to its launch, on its website you can now find 2 new career options: cabin crew and cockpit crew. Air Belgium is particularly looking for cabin crew that speaks Mandarin, we can assume that there will be Chinese destinations, meanwhile the pilots require experience on the A320, A330 […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute Lufthansa Group low-cost (LCC) subsidiary Eurowings and German public services trade union Verdi have reached a labor agreement for cabin crews. According to the agreement, flight attendants will see a 2.5% wage increase backdated from Oct. 1, 2016; a further 2.5% increase Oct.1, 2017; and another 1.25% increase Oct. 1, 2018. Eurowings cabin chiefs (Chefs […]