What follows is my complaint to Qantas today... if you agree with me, please let them know how you feel.
Apparently Qantas management neither fly economy nor work in the cabin of 737s and similar aircraft.
Let me introduce them to the realities:
1. There are six Business and 162 odd economy pax
2. A pax may sometimes appear to be a real living breathing human
3. All cityflier flights serve fluids incl tea and coffee
4. FAs who sometimes appear to be living breathing humans push heavy carts of these fluids up and down the aisles
5. Tea and coffee are diuretics
6. A natural consequence of fluid intake in humans is passing fluids
7. There are 3 receptacles for these fluids
8. Qantas management have mandated a PA stating that one receptacle (at the front) is only for the use of the front 6 pax and that the remaining 162 pax must use the rear two reciptacles.
9. Not only is the maths wrong... 162 into 2 does not go... But it is quite impractical that in the mid-latter part of the flight the fluid cart and FAs are blocking the aisle so noone from the front part of the plane can do what comes naturally given the fluid intake and diuretic.
10. the supposed reason is so that people do not queue up in the business class cabin - instead a safety issue is created for the rest of the pax with a crowded rear work area making it doubly hard (i.e. fluid trolleys in the way of the receptacle doors)
So, please request that management accept the view of the large majority of pax, the safety of the large majority of their pax and their FAs, and indeed the views of the FAs - all the FAs this pax has asked say that management have never had to work on the planes, and have never asked the FAs working in economy.
Let me introduce them to the realities:
1. There are six Business and 162 odd economy pax
2. A pax may sometimes appear to be a real living breathing human
3. All cityflier flights serve fluids incl tea and coffee
4. FAs who sometimes appear to be living breathing humans push heavy carts of these fluids up and down the aisles
5. Tea and coffee are diuretics
6. A natural consequence of fluid intake in humans is passing fluids
7. There are 3 receptacles for these fluids
8. Qantas management have mandated a PA stating that one receptacle (at the front) is only for the use of the front 6 pax and that the remaining 162 pax must use the rear two reciptacles.
9. Not only is the maths wrong... 162 into 2 does not go... But it is quite impractical that in the mid-latter part of the flight the fluid cart and FAs are blocking the aisle so noone from the front part of the plane can do what comes naturally given the fluid intake and diuretic.
10. the supposed reason is so that people do not queue up in the business class cabin - instead a safety issue is created for the rest of the pax with a crowded rear work area making it doubly hard (i.e. fluid trolleys in the way of the receptacle doors)
So, please request that management accept the view of the large majority of pax, the safety of the large majority of their pax and their FAs, and indeed the views of the FAs - all the FAs this pax has asked say that management have never had to work on the planes, and have never asked the FAs working in economy.
