United AFA gets is so wrong...

[The Gopher]

One again, our friends at the AFA have told their membership to stop serving drinks in FC before departure, and basically neglect the care of our passengers to read Cosmo, err, I mean the "safety" portion of their handbook...

http://www.unitedafa.org/news/pdetails.asp?ID=47

Now I know that most professional FA's that we have would not use LHR's events to not give our passengers, particularly our premium customers, anything but first-class service. I am annoyed that the AFA has sunk to this level though. How about the AFA put out a bulletin to their membership that "now is the time to make our customers feel welcome on UA". No wonder our DIR is in the crapper.

 

[Fly]

I know the f/a's are complaining about it too. Until the company tells us no beverages predeparture, we will continue to do the service. We have a better chance of noticing something is wrong if we actually are standing right next to a potential problem vs. hanging out in the galley.

 

[lasttoboard]

I know the f/a's are complaining about it too. Until the company tells us no beverages predeparture, we will continue to do the service. We have a better chance of noticing something is wrong if we actually are standing right next to a potential problem vs. hanging out in the galley.

Kudos to you Fly for using business sense rather than following the directive from the AFA!

 

[dc3fanatic]

I thought UAL set policy, not the AFA. Aren't they going way outside of their bounds here?