Lexico 4 Cabin Crew part I: Beginner - Intermediate - Hardcore

Beginners´ level:

OD: open day

AD: assessment day

FI: final interview

OH: on hold

YWCB: you will be contacted

GC: golden call

DOJ: date of joining

Intermediate level:

HQ: new home

Initio: starting training

Pax: passenger

Bid: request a specific destination and make a monetary bet for it

Main fleet / A380: designated aircraft in which you´ll be working

PA: public address

F: first class

J: business class

Y: economy class

L: low season or long-haul flight

K: shoulder season

H: high season

P: pick season

XLHF: extra long haul flight

Purser: boss number 1

SFS: Senior Flight Steward – boss number 2

Jump seat: your throne – were you seat during takeoff, landing and turbulence

Deadhead: you fly as a non active crew member usually to replace someone who is sick on the next flight

Stopover: you arrive to the airport you go to the duty free and then jump back to the plane

Layover: you stay for the night in the destination you arrived

The office: the aircraft

Advanced level:

Crotch watch: see if the passenger has his seat belt buckled

Twins: a married crew couple

CCN: gossip about other Crew usually delivered via SMS, BBM or What´s up

KTP: kill that passenger – example, while pouring a drink to a pax you say to the other crew “Katie P has the juice”

Juice: (verb) jet-fuel

Ramp rats: ground handling crew

Air fairy or butterfly: gay crew

Farm: cabin crew training center

Nashville Samsonite or Taco box: trash bags or carton boxes which pax use to carry on items

Run: picking up trays without the trolley nearby

Drunfunk: when the pilot abandon his station to deal a situation with a passenger, usually a drunk one

Landing lips: when woman apply a gross amount of lipstick before landing

Clocked: a serious warning from HR that a crew might get fired

Black letter: the way which Human Resources notifies a Crew that he must have a meeting in HQ, usually followed by a pack away

Pack-away: a Crew being fired

Dogs: passengers

Cat: the “assistant” of an executive

George: when the pilot puts on the auto-pilot

Half way Steve: an illegal practice in which the passenger travel´s through a hidden city fare. That is when a pax issues a ticket with a stopover and disembarks there even so the journey concludes in the destination after the stopover. Many passengers do this because sometimes it´s cheaper for them to acquire this type of tickets (with a stopover) than a direct flight

Twilight or Ferry flight: when it´s a totally empty flight

H/R: human remains usually left in the toilet

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