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Originally Posted by Jason A
I've also seen police yell at people in extreme circumstances, however I respect that they are doing it because they are trying to protect someone.
Food for thought.
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Jason I am not sure your purposes of adding the above in your reply but you can't compare the role of police to a flight attendant, they are 2 completely different roles. Flight attendant
are NOT police as much as some of them may think they are. I should also add this to my story: before she shouted at me, I asked her if I could visit the cockpit (in 1999, pre-911). I asked her politely and her reply was 'no, go back to your seat'.
Did my action really warrant her response? Was it an extreme circumstance? A bored, young boy wandering around the cabin at night during a long flight? I didn't make any noise. Noone was at risk of any danger (the seat belt sign was off at the time). I did the exact same thing the previous year on Cathay Pacific on the same route and that led to my first ever cockpit visit and landing. There are lots of different ways for the said f/a to ask me to return to my seat, she could had done it in a polite way, what she did was rude and totally unacceptable.
Police deals with criminals all the time - do flight attendants deal with criminals?
I sincerely hope this isn't a prevalent attitude among QF cabin crews - yell at the passengers because they were doing things that they didn't like. That may explained my experience. It was my first QF flight and for many years I have not flown with QF because of this experience. I flew QF domestically for a couple of times but have not flown with them internationally ever since this incident.