Cabin crew are safety professionals. When a passenger collapses mid-flight. When smoke fills a cabin. When violence erupts onboard. When a security threat emerges at 35,000 feet. There is one group of workers trained to respond: cabin crew.
Cabin crew are aviation’s first responders: they are the paramedics, they are the fire fighters, they are the police, they are the nurses. There is no one else at 35,000 feet.
Despite saving lives on the job and keeping us safe every day, cabin crew still struggle to be recognised as the safety professionals they are.
That is why this cabin crew day the ITF honours the safety critical role of cabin crew in the aviation industry, and the strength we find in our unions.
Aviation's first responders
Every flight takes off with the quiet assurance that if something goes wrong, cabin crew will respond. Cabin crew are trained for this. (....)