Article: I’ve worked as cabin crew for six years, and I’ve never been so exhausted.

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A passenger chased me down the plane galley – for cabin crew, this is just a normal day at the office | Anonymous

Flights delayed, airports in chaos, holidays ruined: airlines blame Covid and Brexit, but it’s all their fault, says a cabin crew member for a major airline

www.theguardian.com

Long gone are the days of the legacy crew on six figures. There’s a feeling among current employees that the pandemic was a convenient excuse to oust the last senior members on expensive contracts.

That level of fatigue is only sustainable for so long. Days and days of early starts followed by long-haul flights wear you down, so crew are calling in sick. There is a lot of bitterness and anger towards the airlines, who used Covid lockdowns as an excuse to lay off so many of us.

I'd like to think the state of things in Oz isn't as poor as it is in the UK.

 

[cove]

Poor passenger behaviour can be a problem for flight crews.Try to be nice everyone.

 

[jb747]

I'd like to think the state of things in Oz isn't as poor as it is in the UK.

I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s even worse. Same playbook at the very least.

 

[MARTINE]

The last two years seem to have short circuited that part of many people’s brain where civility and decency lives.

 

[Catweazle]

Teachers are experiencing the same thing. Burnout, fatigue, over-worked and under compensated.

That said, you'd think that most airliner passengers, being somewhat older, ought to be a little more mature than our little 'passengers' at school. Weirdly, that isn't the case (hah!)