Originally Posted by
Lkaroo
EK are apparently so short staffed in economy that from November, first crew might be (will be) required to work in business and similarly business crew in economy for an entire roster.
Email to crew describes the situation as EK having "restricted resources among our Economy crew". Guess the hiring freeze was not such a good idea after all...
On a flight to JED this week, a gregarious Irish cabin crew was managing the bar. She was actually a Economy crew, but Business was short staffed and Economy wasn't very full so she was stationed at the bar. Since it's a dry flight, there's not much to do other than serve date champagne and nuts... so no much special training required!
She mentioned there's a bit of a hiring freeze right now, so the rosters are pretty tight.
She was pretty funny, probably over-shared her EK drinking stories, but then again she was Irish.