Originally Posted by PUCCI GALORE

As I reach the later end of my flying career (I always said that I would retire at 40 years of age ) I am going to stick my neck out.

I am really sorry that there is this delineation between Mixed and WW. It should be one Fleet. I know all the reasons. As others here will know at times we have had pilots working as cabin crew when they were overmanned and they were paid pilot money. So custom and practice had already had people either end of the trolley earning different sums of money.

I really am tired of this attitude that Mixed Fleet is in some ways sub-standard or second rate. They are inexperienced - of course they - how could it be otherwise. This is why I feel strongly that they were thrown in the deep end and did not have the benefits that I and all the rest of us had of having other to help and give us the benefit of their experience. Heavens - on the job training we have done for years. Everyone was new once. Had I had the opportunity I would have helped them in a heartbeat - but no - the Powers-That-Be decided that we might contaminate them. What with you may well ask.

The minute that you create separate entities then you create problems. I think that they all now have more experience - our colleagues at Gatwick have achieved this and so will they. There - that's me Miss Popularity for today. Not! Never mind - I have a rendezvous with destiny inthe form of GianCarlo my hair stylist!

Let me tell you I'd sooner fly Mixed Fleet any day than get to the airport and find that I'd been code shared over to Iberia. As for 3 day LAX - AA Intl FA base have been 3 day trips to LHR for 21 years - and those crews are so senior that Jurassic Park comes to mind - and we've joked about that they and I (remember that they also bid HNL!)