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Old Jan 29, 2013 | 11:27 am
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Originally Posted by system error
I was on an eagle flight dfw - hou early this morning and the FA was brand new. First day on the job. A more senior FA was training. The thing that was interesting was it seemed like today was the first she had ever seen of the plane and the first time she had done any of the proceedures. I know they train for safety but found it odd that they wouldn't spend at least a day training in a mockup or something. She did a fine job by by the way.

Also, the first officer was brand new too. I saw the captain explaining the layout of the cockpit as well. He also did a fine job. It did take us an extra 15 mins but no complaints today. Just an observation.
Several years ago I was on an AE flight somewhere, and the end of the flight the captain came on the loudspeaker to ask us to welcome the FO as we disembarked as it was his first flight with AE, and by the way he landed the plane too!
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