Caucasian crew
Jan 13, 2014 | 4:45 am
#16
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I don't know about now, but there have been 100% Caucasian crew on my flights before. So they do exist. They just have to have some desired language skill.
Jan 13, 2014 | 6:44 am
#17
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I have seen on a couple of occasions caucasian crew operating on the LHR route as part of an overall LHR based crew. When I first flew on an LHR flight that was operated by an LHR crew, I found it very strange as even the Chinese crew, had thick British accents! I soon got used to it though! Of course you often hear FAs with Canadian/US accents on the N.American flights too 
One time (years ago) was a male, who I saw on a number of flights, and more recently there were 2 female caucasians working CX250 in June 2011.
It was very strange to see caucasians and they were fully British, accents and all, but as you would come to expect their service was just as good/hard working as their Asian colleagues. I am not sure if they had some type of Asian language skill, I only ever heard them speaking English, but I know it is a requirement to have a second language which must be Asian.
One time (years ago) was a male, who I saw on a number of flights, and more recently there were 2 female caucasians working CX250 in June 2011.
It was very strange to see caucasians and they were fully British, accents and all, but as you would come to expect their service was just as good/hard working as their Asian colleagues. I am not sure if they had some type of Asian language skill, I only ever heard them speaking English, but I know it is a requirement to have a second language which must be Asian.
Jan 13, 2014 | 7:39 pm
#20
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Caucasian Red-Head ISM on CX 888/889. Seen her twice this year and she is absolute nightmare. No non-sense and not friendly at all.
On CX 252 (almost always LHR-based crew) plenty of mixed and fantastic UK accents. My fav is a girl that has a perfect Manchester accent "I have no idea how to pronounce it - but you want the French one yeah?"
On CX 252 (almost always LHR-based crew) plenty of mixed and fantastic UK accents. My fav is a girl that has a perfect Manchester accent "I have no idea how to pronounce it - but you want the French one yeah?"
Jan 13, 2014 | 8:50 pm
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Jan 13, 2014 | 8:52 pm
#22
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All of our cabin crew are Asian. As long as they speak English regardless of route.
On one of my London sectors, I had a regular FA and ISM who were half Caucasian, half Asian. The FA was half English, half Filipino while the ISM was half English, half Chinese.
So we do have Caucasian crew but they have some part Asian in them.
As far as flight crew, its multiracial. I know crew not just from the usual countries like Australia, UK, Canada, etc but we have some from Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe!
On one of my London sectors, I had a regular FA and ISM who were half Caucasian, half Asian. The FA was half English, half Filipino while the ISM was half English, half Chinese.
So we do have Caucasian crew but they have some part Asian in them.
As far as flight crew, its multiracial. I know crew not just from the usual countries like Australia, UK, Canada, etc but we have some from Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe!
Jan 13, 2014 | 11:29 pm
#23
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Jan 14, 2014 | 11:44 am
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There was a British ISM who was let go after he upgraded one too many passengers just because they said the seat they sat on was too hard for their bum.
Jan 14, 2014 | 4:21 pm
#25
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Caucasian crew
Caucasian Red-Head ISM on CX 888/889. Seen her twice this year and she is absolute nightmare. No non-sense and not friendly at all.
On CX 252 (almost always LHR-based crew) plenty of mixed and fantastic UK accents. My fav is a girl that has a perfect Manchester accent "I have no idea how to pronounce it - but you want the French one yeah?"
On CX 252 (almost always LHR-based crew) plenty of mixed and fantastic UK accents. My fav is a girl that has a perfect Manchester accent "I have no idea how to pronounce it - but you want the French one yeah?"
Jan 15, 2014 | 6:12 pm
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Jan 22, 2014 | 5:21 am
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