Originally Posted by
pptp
I was on a CUN flight a long time ago that had French speaker placed on it. I don't know if it's the case anymore but for a while it was a popular destination for the French.
It was a three day trip worth 8 hours. IAH-CUN (24 hour layover) CUN-IAH-MEX (24 hour layover) MEX-IAH. On the flights we worked as speakers (French speaker), we easily had 80-90% French passengers onboard. Needless to say, I worked one (for the layovers
).
Originally Posted by
Babu
I agree with you in principle--CO does what it must to make $$. Fair enough. But for those Indians who don't speak English, it comes across at best as an annoyance, and at worst an act of disregard. And for the record, there are indeed a few non English speaking pax on the BOM flight (I've noticed about 5-10% on my flights). Yes, they may know how to say, "thank you" and "where is the toilet" but not much more. Why it is necessary to have French, Italian, Japanese, Mandarin, Portuguese and Spanish speakers but not Hindi speakers baffles me, when CO dumps 2 777s daily into India.
Write the company and ask for their reasoning. I have seen many an AF flight to BOM and DEL (for example) where the languages spoken onboard were just English and French (crew wise). It is not just a CO issue.