Thursday, January 04, 2007

And I Said My Last London Flight Was Bad.....

It's the day after getting back from my last London trip and I've only just recovered. The trip started out really well. Good flight to London, great crew and I got to see my friends for the night. It's on the return flight where it all happened. The 1st meal service was fine. I even had enough chicken and fish to be able to offer every passenger a choice rather than running out of one half way down the cabin. Myself and a few of the crew had noticed a passenger behaving strangely so we kept an eye on him. After about 20 minutes he wrapped his blanket around his head like a turban and started walking up and down the cabin. It was at this point we realised he was drunk. We sat him down and the SFS had a quiet word with him. 10 minutes later he came to the rear galley and asked for a beer. Obviously we refused. The guy got really annoyed and started screaming abuse at us. The only thing we can do in this situation is calm the guy down which we tried to do. On the way back to his seat he smashed one of the seatback TVs. This is the point where we have to restrain the passenger. Myself and the other 3 male crew met in the back galley. We also had to choose 2 big male passengers to help us. We briefed on what each one of us would do and then removed any clothing that the passenger could grab (eg tie). My 1st job was to sneak the passengers out of the row behind him which I managed to do very quietly. Next we all got into position. One of the crew members has to stand in front of the passenger and talk quietly so they lean forward. It was at this point we stormed. The situation was dealt with very well and we had the passenger in handcuffs with his seatbelt on in under a minute. When we arrived at Dubai the police came onboard and removed him. It was a very long flight!I flew to London on our newest aircraft A6-EBW. The aircraft has a CRC (Crew Rest Compartment), which means there are bunks upstairs for the crew. This picture shows the stairs from the cabin leading up to the CRC.
The emergency equipment in the CRC.
The CRC aisle. The passengers are sat below this.
Tanja (Australia), Me and Eleanor (Ireland) on a bunk.
Tanja, Justin (Armenia) and Eleanor in the CRC.
The passengers on EK001 from Dubai - London Heathrow.
The view of Iran from 39,000ft.
Anmol (India) pretending to read her manual to Soo (South Korea)

Alex, Nat and Chris playing Singstar.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hiya darlin

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year - thanks for the text..i could of replied..but i'm cheap and can't be arsed topping up my phone cred!

Your blog definately makes for interesting reading (almost as good as Muzi's for comedy value but not quite on the same par stupidity-wise)Glad to see your having a brilliant time :-D

Drop me an email when you have time

Love Katie xxx

Anonymous said...

that sounds scary i wouldnt like to have dealt with that but go you!Kirsty x