Originally Posted by
ThatT1Feeling
Sorry all - let me clear this up. It was an A320 with club back to row 9 and maybe 2 spare club seats. It couldn’t have gone to row 10 on an A320 afaik as then it would have had to go to row 12 which I was sitting in!
There were 4 cabin crew in total, including the lead. One crew member looked after all of ET and the 3rd crew member went straight up to CE after takeoff, so there were 3 serving CE.
A320 requires min 4 crew to legally operate. on a MAN, the trigger for extra to minimum is 21 CE pax, so on A320 legal min is 4 and with your described CE loads, you should have 5 in total.
Thus the CE cabin was one short to serve the CE pax loads you had. The IFM/IFL would utilise 4 crew including himself herself for CE and remaining 1 crew to serve ET (though this is at discretion of the IFM/L, as per service standards, it should be 2 in each cabin for the minimum 4 crew on 320 and the extra in CE, but given CE loads, most seniors would probably utilise 4 in CE leaving 1 in ET, given the available service time is approx 10-15 mins on a MAN sector, or start off with 3 in CE 2 in ET then have one from ET come up to help after ET service complete )
On 320 the divider can either be at row 9 or row 12