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Old Sep 24, 2020, 12:43 am
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Originally Posted by BAflyer2007
Even before Covid things were interesting with 1 Toilet between 8 on the 787 etc Anyway I've looked into regulations around this and found this from the European Union Aviation Safety Agency dated 30th June.

3.5 The aircraft operator should:

make every effort to ensure that, in an aircraft which has more than one lavatory and provided the number of passengers carried aboard allows for it, a lavatory should be reserved for the exclusive use of the crew, preferably the one closest to the flight crew compartment.


So I guess Iberia crew are going by the guidelines and we should respect that.

Also interestingly regarding the Food situation...

Aircraft operators should reduce in-flight services to the minimum necessary to ensure passenger comfort and well-being and limit contact between cabin crew members and passengers, giving proper consideration to the duration of the flight. Among these measures, the following should be considered:
— No duty free or other non-essential product sales on board.
— Reduced food and beverage service. Alcoholic drinks should be avoided.
— Preference for pre-packed and sealed food and drink products, such as canned drinks.
— Wherever possible, payment involving touch or contact, such as cash payments, should be avoided to mitigate the potential transmission risk between cabin crew members and passengers
.

I don't think there is any doubt regarding the current (poor) BA offering but found the above interesting.
This guidance is now, frankly, inadequate, which is part of the problem here. It should be updated with a heirachy of how important each of these measures is. There is masses of scientific evidence that the key way COVID-19 spreads is airborne transmission due to close proximity between two people. Whilst surface transmission is possible, it is at most a minor and most theoretical way that COVID-19 could be spread. The key thing is minimising contact between people where possible, what matters is how many times crew interact with passengers, whether they are wearing a mask and how close passengers are to each other, not if the crew member has heated your meal or not. But of course, airlines such as BA are never willingly going to reduce passenger numbers on a flight to facilitate this and nor do they appear willing to scrap J class at the moment because service itself could be an issue, so we get this pointless security theatre that makes some people feel better but doesn’t really achieve much instead.
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