A lot of people out there dreaming of become a cabin crew... What is your reason and why you want to become a cabin crew ? I know most of the people will answer: I want to travel the world, I want to know more different culture peoples.... But you don't know how tired we are of being a cabin crew...
Yes, we had fun, we had happy moments but most of the time we are tired, we are fatigue... So we need to mentally and physically prepared when working because you don't know what will happen next second.
(1) We need to prepared the aircraft before you guys can start boarding.
What we prepare ? Check the safety equipments, check the foods and drinks given by the Caterer, check the toilet fully replenished and make sure is dry and clean, spray the whole aircraft cabin, prepare the business class pillows and blankets and water.
(2) Check the stocks
Check the passenger's pre-booked meals make sure is catered correctly, check the alcohol, the snacks and etc make sure the amount is the same in the form and in the cart.
(3) During boarding
Do not think that we only stand there and show you seat number when boarding... Actually boarding can be very busy too... We need to help passengers to find a space for their bags, we need to brief the mother travelling with infant and offer infant seatbelt, we need to brief the wheelchair or blind or any special passengers, we need to brief the passengers that seated emergency exits.
(4) After Take-Off
After take off we are very busy too... We will distribute the immigration cards to the passengers, help passenger to fix the bassinet for the infant if they had pre-booked earlier, need to send the kids meals first to avoid kids hungry and cry, send the Portable Media Player to the pre-booked passengers only on Australia flights, heat up the meals, set up the cart and preparing for the foods and drinks service.
(5) During meal service
We need to serve the pre-booked meal passengers one by one and also selling commercials. Sometimes please bear with us the service very slow due to some crews are busy in the galley because of the passengers order instant noodles, the meals not in the cart and we need to walk up and down to get the meals.... LOL
(6) After meal service
We will go out with the rubbish collection so please do not handover your rubbish to the crews when they doing meal service, it's not hygiene so please wait for us to come out with the rubbish cart. After rubbish collection we need to prepare our Duty Free and Merchandise sales...
(7) We need to check toilets every 30 minutes to make sure the toilets are clean and replenished, we need to call the cockpit every 30 minutes to make sure the pilots inside are fine, we need to check cabin every 15 minutes during day flight and bring a flashlight every 20 minutes during night flight to make sure no passengers sleeping on the floor. LOL...
(8) Before Landing
Before landing, we need to close our stocks, we need to put back everything into the cart from the display drawer, we need to check which passenger haven't claimed their meals(example like passengers not on the seat or we couldn't find the passengers), we need to collect back the Portable Media Player from the passengers, we need to stow back the baby bassinet, we need to count our money, we need to seal every cart so please bear in mind with us that when you last minute purchase something from us, we might told you that we already close our stocks...
(9) After Landing
After all passengers disembark, we need to check the whole aircraft make sure passengers do not left anything behind
This is my daily routine working in Air Asia X, Air Asia will be different but you may read my previous post 'A Day as a Flight Attendant in Air Asia'
If nothing happen on that flight will be a very smooth flight but if anything happen will be very very tired... Now you can get a clear image on how we work onboard... It's a very busy life as a cabin crew :)
Last but not least, we wish you a Merry Merry Christmas...! Greeting from D7213 crews
