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    Hi im new to this forum. I'm hoping to join aviation college in Sri Lanka.
    Before joining im searching about the life of an cabin crew member.

    How do they manage while long flights? Sleep food?
    I found some article says there is a hidden room for cabin crew members to sleep.
    http://www.wonderdiscovery.com/secre...endants-sleep/

    Is that true?

    If cabin crew can sleep? Who will work?
    how often do they get leaves?
    Can anyone briefly explain this

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    Yes, it is true. They all work for take off, landing, and high workload times like serving food (which typically happens shortly after take off and shortly before landing). The rest of the flight, they take turns. Half sleep and half work, and the work is mostly a "passive" work of staying in the galley in case a passenger (or a pilot) calls or comes with some request. This is a very low workload time and they use that time to read, talk, etc...

    Also, in long haul flights, there will be 3 or 4 pilots. All will be in the cokpit for take off and landing and the rest of the time they will take turns 2 with in the cockpit and the other one or two resting.

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    • #3
      Originally posted by Gabriel View Post
      Yes, it is true. They all work for take off, landing, and high workload times like serving food (which typically happens shortly after take off and shortly before landing). The rest of the flight, they take turns. Half sleep and half work, and the work is mostly a "passive" work of staying in the galley in case a passenger (or a pilot) calls or comes with some request. This is a very low workload time and they use that time to read, talk, etc...

      Also, in long haul flights, there will be 3 or 4 pilots. All will be in the cokpit for take off and landing and the rest of the time they will take turns 2 with in the cockpit and the other one or two resting.
      Not all the planes have this kind of room though. In some flights the flight attendants have reserved seats in coach, normally with more legroom than normal, and with curtains to enclose them, and the pilots have reserved seats in Business Class.

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      • #4
        A much more comprehensive report is here;



        Originally posted by Gabriel View Post
        Not all the planes have this kind of room though. In some flights the flight attendants have reserved seats in coach, normally with more legroom than normal, and with curtains to enclose them, and the pilots have reserved seats in Business Class.
        If looking at the report linked above; we get the rather 'elaborate' (by U.S. 767, and 757 long-haul flights, and Euro Charter standards) example of Condor's 767s which provide the occupant with complete privacy via a thick, heavy curtain - and this is solely a crew rest. Compare that, to the luxuriously equipped AA's 777-300's and you have quite a contrast.

        I only take umbrage to the term used, in the original article;

        http://www.wonderdiscovery.com/secre...endants-sleep/

        "Most Boeing and Airbus airliners have a secret stairway that leads to a tiny set of windowless bedrooms for the cabin crew."
        Now, if the author wished to abridge his statement to; "Most Boeing and Airbus longhaul* airliners have a secret..." then I would be willing to let it pass.

        1). The vast majority of Boeing airliners are not equipped with the space/capacity/need nexuses requiring the use of the crew rest, and the very same applies to Airbus. The 737 and A32X families are by far the most popular aircraft for their respective manufacturers and thus would be the majority ('most') of the airlines in operation.

        2). The use of the crew-rest is quite an odd thing indeed. In order to justify it, you have to locate the usable space.

        For example, at AA, the only aircraft with dedicated crew-rests would be the A330*, A350, 787 and the 777.
        On the 777-300, you are doubly blessed the the 'crown' and the lower cargo area.
        In many ways, the A340-600s at LH showed how versatile extra lower deck space can be, by adding passenger lavatories below deck.
        Of note though, is that this does compromise what would have been cargo space (if the aircraft were not restricted, due to stage-length, fuel burn etc), thus makes the 777-300 so valuable when used well; on shorter routes, have no rests and maximize your cargo, or on longer routes order and operate with the rests and use what would have been empty via restrictions anyway in that trade-off for range/fuel/payload equation.

        *(I honestly cannot confirm the A330, and with the departure of the A330-300s, the smaller A330-200 fleet will likely not see the long-haul flying it once saw, e.x. PHL-TLV. As the A350 and 787s arrive in bigger numbers, I am sure the A330-200 will be relegated to lighter/shorter less strenuous hauls, thus less need for crew-rest cabins anyway).

        What will be interesting, is the potential of smaller and smaller aircraft doing longer and longer routes; and seeing how airlines handle those issues.

        As we have noted before, some 737 operators are regularly operating 7+hour flights currently. The -MAX is likely to provide even more incentive to travel longer, and further. Even as the 757s retire, the A321-NEOLR is impressively capable to capture market-share, and doing so handily against Boeing's weak competition in the area. Operating 15+hour flights - surely not.
        The only feasible solutions would be 757/767-esque (in the main cabin) solutions. However, with carriers pressing their current airplanes for ever inch of usable space, let's see what they come up with.
        Whatever is necessary, is never unwise.

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