Air Crew Wants To Dump LA Hotel

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Qantas crew try to dump hotel

January 31, 2006
QANTAS cabin crew, who claim they have been exposed to drug deals and violence at their Los Angeles hotel, must wait at least four months before they find out whether the airline is required to move them to another location.

The Australian Industrial Relations Commission (AIRC) has been hearing a dispute lodged by the Flight Attendants Association of Australia (FAAA) on behalf of Qantas cabin crew who are required to stay at the Westin Bonaventure Hotel in Los Angeles. Qantas relocated its flight crew to the hotel in downtown Los Angeles in March last year and uses about 250 rooms a night.

But the FAAA claimed the hotel's location exposed staff to threats to their personal safety.

It told the AIRC the area was "rampant with drug dealers and intimidating locals" and some cabin crew had been physically assaulted, had experienced threats of assault, witnessed drug dealing and taking, and been subject to harassment and intimidation.

In one incident, a female flight attendant recounted how she was "absolutely terrified" after being victimised on a bus with sexually explicit threats including: "I'm going to give you venereal disease".


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Qantas, which did not dispute any of the claims, said it had now made arrangements so crew could be escorted by hotel staff to nearby shops.
The airline also said that according to the Los Angeles Police Department the crime rate in the downtown area had fallen in recent years.

In his judgment on the matter, AIRC Commissioner Frank Raffaelli said the seriousness of some of the incidents recounted by cabin crew raised the question whether the airline was contravening its enterprise bargaining agreement requirements to provide a "high security standard" for staff.

"I do not think it appropriate to provide a quick fix by either making findings that would force Qantas to move location, or to dismiss FAAA's concerns when it has provided instances of troubling events," he said in his judgment.

"In these circumstances, I propose that a four-month period be established during which the situation can be further monitored."
 
FUNNY if they dont like the westin let em try our culver city hotel or the elegant one in redondo beach hehe
 
The Westin is in a very scary part of town. I wouldn't go walking around there too much without the escort of a FFDO!

On the other hand, there's a neat "dive" restaurant called "The Pantry" that's been there for years just a few blocks away. Great, family-style food at a very affordable price. My Dad used to swear every one of the waiters was an ex-convict, they were pretty scary too. I don't know if that's true but it guaranteed perfect behavior from the younger members of the family group!

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My old lady got a jay walking ticket near the Bonaventure. It was on a Sunday afternoon and there was nobody around. She had been shopping up the street she was alone and just wanted to get back to the hotel. Some a-hole CHIP COP watched her cross 5 red-lights and cornered her in the Bonaventure lobby. Cited her 5 TIMES at $25 a pop!!! This was back in 1989. IMHO, no crews should stay at that place. Much better off somewhere else.
 
I can Qantas need ing 250 rooms nightly: AKL, Brisbane, Melbourne and 3 Sydney flights daily to LAX each by 747-400. Say 20 crew per airplane(pilots and F/A)times 6 Jumbos a day is 120 times a layover of 2 days is 240, pretty close to 250 rooms. Given how far Australia is a 48 hour layover seems justified. How hotel in LA can handle a volume of this size?
 
FUNNY if they dont like the westin let em try our culver city hotel or the elegant one in redondo beach hehe

Specially Culver city. Everyone I've talked to that has stayed there was either jumped or close to getting jumped. I stay there once, but I grew up in the ghetto, so I know how thing roll around there. As for the redondo beach hotel we stayed at, it was out dated and porno films are filmed there. But if I had to choose between the two, I choose Redondo beach.
 

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