Drunken Qantas hostie 'causes mass evacuation'

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I don't care what my FA's have got up to the night before my flight - I've even joined in and had some fun with FA's over the years. There are stories there, but I don't spout them to the media, even though they are perhaps more juicy than this story.

So you have been involved in causing a hotel to be evacuated?
 
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I am very ashamed to say that when I read "Drunken Qantas hostie causes mass evacuation" it meant something rather different to me.

Richard :oops:
 
Wonder when we will get the news article about a News Ltd/ Fairfax employee drinking too much at a party and throwing up all over a hallway and their room causing a hotel a huge cleaning bill and News Ltd/Fairfax being banned from that hotel.

Will we see it? Nah. Not news worthy :rolleyes:

It’s already happened (almost), and was covered widely in the media at the time. Here’s what happens when Fairfax/New Ltd journos get on the booze:

http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=PlzDHY9CRB8

I do note that, somewhat amazingly, Bargy McShove actually didn’t lose his job.

If a Qantas staffer smokes in a hotel room, should that become news? How about 2 married FAs having an affair? Is that also news?
Well, no, these are personal matters, that almost certainly have occurred already and probably are discussed at length around QF sewing circles. They don’t result in emergency services being deployed unnecessarily and directly inconveniencing hundreds of people.

Kudos for partying with hosties but I'm tipping that you'd be none too impressed standing in the ZQN cold at midnight OR stuck on the tarmac waiting for a sober air crew, all because some FA can’t drink responsibly (especially if you weren't partying with them!).

No doubt there are more pressing issues in the world but the incident strikes at the heart of QFs image, at a time when the airline industry as a whole is under scrutiny. It’s a highly embarrassing act by someone who should have known better, that could have had disastrous outcomes. That’s why it’s newsworthy here and that’s why QF “accepted” their resignations. Suggesting that its QF bashing for the sake of it or that FA behaviour is above public scrutiny is misguided.
 
Reported in this morning's Adelaide Advertiser that both (?) of the FA's have now resigned.
JB
 
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