Are JAL flight crew allowed to accept gifts? I generally buy a box of chocolate for the crew when I fly during the holidays.
I does it all the time while hand over my log book for them to write with "
Tsumaranai Mono Desu ga" thorwn in.
I usually do it low profile out of sight (hand over in galley) from other paxs (who make make big fuss and complain):
- I usually prefer hand over to Chief and Asst Chief (The one with lighter shade blue scarf) who share it with the crew (I just ask for both of them and hand em personally in galley).
- It be nice if your box of chocolate (or other gifts) have individual packing within it which they can share among themselves.
- Preferably whatever you gave is local specialty that cant be found/super expensive in Japan (Eg Locally made tea leaf in Malaysia).
Just bear in mind you don't get any special super duper out of the world service in return for this
(YMMV). For mine, whole crew in set of three actually come to my seat personally thank me for the gifts. Embarrassing for sure as other pax around you will think wat teh heck is happening
. Another round is the Asst Chief just hand me a hand written note on recommended place for good food from her hometown. Once is some J class 787 soft toy
Basically nothing much to shout about.
*If you speak Japanese I think it will 9999% better* (No I only speak broken Nihongo
)
To be honest I not sure what happened to the gifts once you handover to them (even they assure you they share around). Some airline crew apparently junked
the gift and some more than happy to receive it (would love to know jal policy)
At least you get to see crew happy faces when you hand over gift to them
