Business Class seat for Business Women

This is the really outdated post indeed.. it was last year T_T!! This goes to show how busy i am =P Last year itself, I traveled to Hong Kong twice! One for my leisure trip, two weeks after was my business trip.

Well, as mentioned, "Business Trip" always in "Business Class" for me =P *dont jealous* I know there are many companies really cut cost, cut budget, cut travel and cut everything that deal with monetary.


I would say I was the lucky one, traveled to Hong Kong for just only 1 night and on Business Class cabin for round-trip!

It was my first time on Business Class and feeling excited. Looking my left and right, ha! It was the CEO of Tesco sitting next beside me! Had a chat while on the way back from Hong Kong. He was a nice guy, down to earth, handsome somemore *ahem*


Ooh, back to Cathay Pacific's Business Class cabin. Although it wasn't the new aircraft of B777ER, but this is consider "okay" for me being as a first timer.

Onboard foods were nice & they served haagen dazs ice-cream !!! It-was-so-filling. Do you how much joy you have when you had the whole cup of ice-cream all by yourself with a choice of different favor?

3-4 courses meal, wine, ice-cream... you name it all... *Happy*

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Why I'm not an air-stewardess?

Many of my friends or somebody that I've just met knowing that I'm working for an airline, the first thing in their mind is this formula, "airlines = air-sterwardess". First question would be : "are you the air-stewardess?" "Do i look like a stewardess to you?", I responded naturally with smile ;)

Many years back, my mom, my aunt, basically my relatives asked me why don't I apply for air-stewardess job since I'm pretty (which I doubt I am but...this is what they said la...), i have got the height, and told me air-stewardess's salary is high, attractive perks, got the chance to travel around the world and blah blah blah. What they'd said is actually true. But I have my own perspective too.

Air-stewardess is not a glamour or sophicated job now as compare to those day, back to 80's and early 90's. What a long flying hours and stressful job. I personally call it "high-pay waiter/waitress". They don't need a degree holders to become one and to be honest, many of them are just SPM holders (form 5) only. I actually told my cousin sister (which she dreamt to become one) to further study first, at least to obtain a diploma certificate. Otherwise in future, no employer would want to hire her.

In Asia, you can't by flying for the rest of your life! None of the Asian carriers would allow you to fly until retirement age. They will ask you to go (resign or transfer for ground operation/office work) after you've reach certain age. Unlike European or American carriers, they are still serving on-board eventhough you can see their damn obvious wrinkles (now, imagine when they smile at you). *big grins* No way the airlines can ask them to leave, because they have a very strong union that protects the employee's right and ensure the airlines will be sued to death. Haha.. don't play play arh....

I'm working in an airlines industry, in town office to be specific. The reasons why I decided not to fly high because I feel that they don't need to think as much as a ground operation/sales & marketing/PR does. They just need to know how to serve coffee or tea or even milo! Brainless... and eventually all the brain cell will die (sorry for my cabin-crew friends, I don't mean you but this is the fact)

Recently, I just got to know from my friend there are secretaries (in an airlines office) know ALMOST nothing because they were cabin crew and now transferred. They don't even know how to draft and type a letter, what they do everyday is just sit there to send and receive telex messages. See, how bad it is, now you know why I always stick to ground operational job.

Joke from my friend: they are good in stirring tea, good in stirring man or even stealing man.. *LoL*

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