Originally Posted by
garykung
Although that seems offensive to CX FAs, in reality many people do factor the beauty quality of FAs when they choose airlines.
Originally Posted by
rufflesinc
Going back to the topic of this thread, the irony of all of this is that the most junior, youngest FAs work Y!
The one time I noticed that not to be true was on AA to china where an african american FA who couldn't have been older than 30 was in F cabin, because she spoke chinese very well.
Then those who 'aspire' to grAAb a seat and 'enjoy' CX F will be gravely disappointed. CX F is crewed by a senior purser (SP) and a flight purser (FP). In the past decade it has taken around 7 years for a junior flight attendant (BC) to be promoted to FP, let alone receive their F training thereafter.
Nowadays for recent joiners it is expected that they will take 10-15 years to get promoted to FP and another 10-15 to SP (the most 'senior' BCs joined in 2008.)
OTOH, AFAIK AA basically has close to no hierarchy, the 'purser' is just paid a bit more to do announcements and paperwork etc, and the rest of FAs are like random...a big big difference compared to CX.
Originally Posted by
leungy18
That's interesting. How do they maintain a relatively young group of cabin crew?
This might not be super relevant to the subject of the thread, but is general, is it easier to serve Y, or J, or F? Sadly, I've never flown CX F. J service is very nice but feels like an assembly line, and Y...well, Y is Y.
I wouldn't say CX crew are relatively young, there are only a handful of ISM/SPs under 40 and definitely some FPs over 40 too. Whereas on QR, quite a number of 'cabin senior'/'cabin lead' CC (aka ISM/SP) are like 30 or younger, promotion is a lot faster.
Y is the easiest and J is the worst (F is niche, basically), it is also dependent on nature of the flights (e.g. everyone dreads 870 and SIN etc)