Sunday, December 7, 2008

Survival

Yeah ... today we talked about survival equipment and all this fancy stuff that supposed to keep you alive. LOL. The best part of the day was the practical slide evacuation... just imagine 16 adult people acting like kids on the playground ... pretty funny. Later we went to the stimulator to practice our "planned evacuation" drills and that went really well! By "planned evacuation" I mean when there is enough time for the cabin crew to get the cabin and the passengers ready for emergency landing... like securing things, letting passengers know how to behave during crash landing and how to evacuate. Once again, very.. very interesting stuff.
Other than that, not much more happened today.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hello Nikita,

I dont know you but by reading your blogs on cabincrew. com i was totally amazed by your strength and determination. So i decided to check your website.

My name is ami and i am a 22 year old gambian living in the UK as a student. This has been my dream as well which is why i admire you so much. You helped so many people at cabincrew and offered genuine information to them so i really respect you.

As i am gambian i am black. I know this sounds silly but this might be the reason i've never followed my dream because i never see either emirates, etihad or qatar airways with black cabin crew so i am so afraid to apply.

I would really appreciate your honest opinion on what you think about this issue and my chances. There are either white or asian people in all your photos.

I really hope to hear from you soon. Your help means a lot to me and my email address is aminataj@hotmail.com

Best Regards
Ami

Nikita said...

Hi Ami.

First let me thank you for all the sweet comments and I hope that I can help more people as well.
First and the most important thing: YOU are Eligable for this job despite of your skin color. Here at Etihad we have plenty of black girls, from all around the world. So if you meet the other requirements, then there is nothing that should stop you from applying. And let me tell you... the black girls we have are beautiful and they look stunning in their Uniforms :)
So please... don't hesitate and apply ASAP because we need a lot of people now !!!
And let me remind you that at Etihad white and black girls are the minority because 70% of all cabin crew are from India or Philippines .. so heads up ;)

I hope that answered your question. And if you have any other doubts... just let me know.

Ciao, Ciao

Nikita

Anonymous said...

hello Nikita, hope that you are fine. i agree with Ami,i believe you are helping many people..keep up the good work.May Ami also know that am Kenyan and have a friend who joined Etihad last year n yes she is Kenyan,she tells mi that african crew are there though few but Ami,why not join them and add the list...lol!

Am currently crew for my national airline and i enjoy reading ur blog..kip the updates coming...On the facebook URL u have provided,only one photo is available...the one for the airshow of your flight to AUH...cud we see more photos?

jackieh