Last SBY

27 March 2017 // Monday

Last standby of the month; not as lucky I guess.

They called me the night before at 8pm. They sure are early but I answered because its better than having them call me at 3am after all.

So I am doing MDC today. Fishy fishy!!

Crew and cic were nice so I happily went on the flight. Going up load was just comfortable but coming back was full.

On the way up it was a full service hence despite the comfortable load, we only had about 20mins of rest before commencing our service before landing. We had a quick bite and had to go for service again.

On the way back, during the boarding we all could already sense the bad feeling from the passengers. It wasn't going to be an easy flight. Our service took us 1.5 hours and since the flight time was 3 hours and we had to do our before landing service and hour before landing, we only less than 30mins of rest!

W ended up going for the service earlier than planned because even though the passengers just had their meals they were still constantly asking for drinks. Rather than walking up and down to deliver individual orders we decided to go ahead with a tray of drinks which is much more efficient.

The weather on the way back was pretty bumpy too, and many passengers who queued to use the toilet didn't manage to use it before the weather got worse. Despite multiple announcements and warnings to have them take a seat, they simply refused to budge.

Just then, the announcement came on, "Ladies and Gentlemen, this is your crew-in-charge speaking." We all grinned sheepishly to ourselves because our cic was nice enough to make the announcement for passengers to return to their seats. Guess what? They all obliged.

MDC is the longest Indonesia flight as compared to the shortest PLM. It was a long and draggy day but at least I'm off tomorrow!