Gifts for FAs?
Nov 4, 2017, 10:55 am
#121
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This is laughable. It's truly bizarre behaviour. I cannot believe any food stuff gifted by strangers isn't just disposed of. Of course they will do it with a smile - they are going to be in a confined space with you for possibly many hours and you have just done something really weird. Do it at the end of the flight if you have to do it...
Nov 4, 2017, 2:03 pm
#122
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This is laughable. It's truly bizarre behaviour. I cannot believe any food stuff gifted by strangers isn't just disposed of. Of course they will do it with a smile - they are going to be in a confined space with you for possibly many hours and you have just done something really weird. Do it at the end of the flight if you have to do it...
And to quote another transatlantic crew friend
“They get eaten. If it was an open bag then no would touch them. But anything sealed is scoffed. Usually split into a couple of bowls - one into flight deck, one front Galley and one in back galley“
So YMMV
Nov 4, 2017, 3:29 pm
#123
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It certainly does! You do not see the potential safety risk here? Anything sealed? Flight deck? Wow.
Nov 4, 2017, 3:32 pm
#124
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As a thank you, I used the refreshment vouchers handed on as we got off the tech aircraft to stock up on WH Smiths chocolates and gave them the CSM when we boarded later.
It was not a bribe. It was a thank you. Something increasingly missing in the UK.
Nov 4, 2017, 3:42 pm
#125
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To quote transatlantic crew friend on this “Chockys everytime!!! Can't tell you how appreciated they are. If they are purchased in duty free I'm sure it would be fine...”
And to quote another transatlantic crew friend
“They get eaten. If it was an open bag then no would touch them. But anything sealed is scoffed. Usually split into a couple of bowls - one into flight deck, one front Galley and one in back galley“
So YMMV
And to quote another transatlantic crew friend
“They get eaten. If it was an open bag then no would touch them. But anything sealed is scoffed. Usually split into a couple of bowls - one into flight deck, one front Galley and one in back galley“
So YMMV
I suppose it's a comfort they expect the gifts to be in sealed bags with receipts from duty free....
....but alarming that anything not supplied or sanctioned by the airline is consumed on the flight-deck.
To be honest, I'd have thought crew (transatlantic or vanilla) would have the wherewithal to buy their own chocolates if these are important to their well being.
Nov 5, 2017, 2:50 am
#126
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Gosh - you've been grilling your "transatlantic crew friends" about this!
I suppose it's a comfort they expect the gifts to be in sealed bags with receipts from duty free....
(1)....but alarming that anything not supplied or sanctioned by the airline is consumed on the flight-deck.
(2)To be honest, I'd have thought crew (transatlantic or vanilla) would have the wherewithal to buy their own chocolates if these are important to their well being.
I suppose it's a comfort they expect the gifts to be in sealed bags with receipts from duty free....
(1)....but alarming that anything not supplied or sanctioned by the airline is consumed on the flight-deck.
(2)To be honest, I'd have thought crew (transatlantic or vanilla) would have the wherewithal to buy their own chocolates if these are important to their well being.
(2) I don't think you're understanding what an act of generosity is.
Nov 5, 2017, 3:57 am
#127
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But given that gifts of food are obviously commonplace, as illustrated by this thread, don't you think that this risk would long ago have been analysed and assessed, and any appropriate measures taken?
Nov 5, 2017, 4:29 am
#128
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Of course. That was the inference. Is it not appropriate to actually point that concept out to those that assume crew, including pilots, are joyously chomping away at these strangers' offerings? Was my opinion not valid?
Nov 5, 2017, 4:49 am
#129
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This happened recently on a European sector. Customer came on and gifted a bag of chocolates to the crew . I thanked her and later in the flight offered them to both flight crew (not interested, watching their weight) and cabin crew (same response). Since I also avoid sugary food, the bag wasn't even opened.
Nice gesture, I must admit I was a bit bemused by it and the thought did cross my mind as to whether she was fishing for an upgrade
(no I didn't...)
I guess you have to draw your own conclusions. Everyone reacts differently.
Personally, when flying as a passenger I sit down and mind my own business. I just wouldn't do something like that. I don't see the point.
I guess I'm just old and cynical
Nice gesture, I must admit I was a bit bemused by it and the thought did cross my mind as to whether she was fishing for an upgrade
(no I didn't...)I guess you have to draw your own conclusions. Everyone reacts differently.
Personally, when flying as a passenger I sit down and mind my own business. I just wouldn't do something like that. I don't see the point.
I guess I'm just old and cynical
Nov 5, 2017, 4:59 am
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And there are plenty of posts here from crew that suggest that there is no rule against these being eaten during the flight. (Although I adhere to my own expectation, on the two occasions when I've done this, that those would have been saved by the crew for after the flight.)
Nov 6, 2017, 12:59 am
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if there is no prohibition of the consumption on board by crew of foodstuffs given out by strangers, then there should be.
And if there exists a rule that explicitly permits crew to consume on board gifts from strangers, then that rule is misguided.
The risks are obvious.
There are many, many ways you can manifest your appreciation to airline crew.
But if gifts are your chosen medium for expressing gratitude, then it's probably more sensible to use cards, vouchers or other cash equivalents.
Nov 6, 2017, 1:11 am
#132
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"Can I just say thank you very much for looking after me today, the service really was appreciated and enjoy your stopover in XXX"
I think the crew seem to appreciate a sincere plain old fashioned thanks and a ba.com well done or writing in to them.
Nov 6, 2017, 1:19 am
#133
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I wouldn’t take a gift with me for the crew but recently I was connecting at CDG. The cabin crew on my arriving flight had given me an unopened bottle of vino which I couldn’t take through security. I gave it to a member of security staff, asking her if she was allowed to keep it to save me from trashing it. She seemed genuinely pleased to be given a little gift.
This summer I met him again and he barely even said thanks - as it wasn't necessary as he was only doing his job. (I just asked him whether he had received it from the others...)
Personally and more so on longer flights/longhaul, on BA or any other airline if I have had a good flight with a good crew member or members I make a point of approaching them in the galley near the end of the flight saying something along the lines of:
"Can I just say thank you very much for looking after me today, the service really was appreciated and enjoy your stopover in XXX"
I think the crew seem to appreciate a sincere plain old fashioned thanks and a ba.com well done or writing in to them.
"Can I just say thank you very much for looking after me today, the service really was appreciated and enjoy your stopover in XXX"
I think the crew seem to appreciate a sincere plain old fashioned thanks and a ba.com well done or writing in to them.
I think steadman was expressing an opinion I share: it is an opinion relating to onboard consumption of gifts from passengers:
if there is no prohibition of the consumption on board by crew of foodstuffs given out by strangers, then there should be.
And if there exists a rule that explicitly permits crew to consume on board gifts from strangers, then that rule is misguided.
The risks are obvious.
There are many, many ways you can manifest your appreciation to airline crew.
But if gifts are your chosen medium for expressing gratitude, then it's probably more sensible to use cards, vouchers or other cash equivalents.
if there is no prohibition of the consumption on board by crew of foodstuffs given out by strangers, then there should be.
And if there exists a rule that explicitly permits crew to consume on board gifts from strangers, then that rule is misguided.
The risks are obvious.
There are many, many ways you can manifest your appreciation to airline crew.
But if gifts are your chosen medium for expressing gratitude, then it's probably more sensible to use cards, vouchers or other cash equivalents.
Nov 6, 2017, 2:39 am
#134
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Gosh - you've been grilling your "transatlantic crew friends" about this!
I suppose it's a comfort they expect the gifts to be in sealed bags with receipts from duty free....
....but alarming that anything not supplied or sanctioned by the airline is consumed on the flight-deck
I suppose it's a comfort they expect the gifts to be in sealed bags with receipts from duty free....
....but alarming that anything not supplied or sanctioned by the airline is consumed on the flight-deck
PS I didn’t ask my shorthaul friends as I have a preconception that people don’t gift them.
Last edited by Deckard; Nov 6, 2017 at 2:48 am
Nov 6, 2017, 2:54 am
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if there is no prohibition of the consumption on board by crew of foodstuffs given out by strangers, then there should be.
And if there exists a rule that explicitly permits crew to consume on board gifts from strangers, then that rule is misguided.
The risks are obvious.
And if there exists a rule that explicitly permits crew to consume on board gifts from strangers, then that rule is misguided.
The risks are obvious.