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Old Feb 3, 2025 | 6:49 am
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Originally Posted by Jeff767
Staffing for flight attendants on long haul flights is variable to a certain extent based on loads. The A330 used 8 flight attendants as the minimum and would add up to two additional flight attendants as load factor attendants.
There has to be 1 FA for each exit. Also in your text, doesn't make sense, if the load to the EU was light, but the load back to the US was full, where would DL get the extra FA, since they do not have bases in Europe? The planes get staffed the same going and coming back.
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