Originally Posted by
gengar
While acknowledging the point about the back-to-back daytime flights being more taxing on FAs, I just don't see the BR situation being so much of an outlier compared to the industry standard. When I flew CI F, the FAs also only overnighted in SFO before returning. And I know BA schedules FA return after one night on many of their LH routes, which means barely over 24 hours in terms of time from scheduled arrival to departure.
I'd have more sympathy for the BR FAs if I actually got good service on my LH BR flights.
This.
To add on, BR has been terrifyingly nice to the union and its members compared to past years. The union needs to walk that fine line of keeping management that way. The moment management is fed up, we could see escalation like previous years that resulted in some pretty harsh actions and some pretty nasty words be exchanged.