Icelandair letting go its flight attendants and shifting their duties to pilots

Re:Icelandair letting go its flight attendants and shifting ... by jacquesm on Saturday July 18, 2020 @08:54PM (#23886093)

Flight safety concerns will likely nix this. But regardless, that's a bad way to end a labor dispute in these times. But with Wow Air bankrupt there isn't all that much competition to and from that airport. Over half of all destinations reachable from Iceland are flown by Icelandair.

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Re:Icelandair letting go its flight attendants and shifting ... by noncoml on Saturday July 18, 2020 @08:56PM (#23886100)

Will they even be allowed to operate in EU like this?

https://www.easa.europa.eu/the-agency/faqs/minimum-required-...

>when establishing the number of cabin crew needed for each aircraft and flight (...) by either applying the number established during the certification process or by a calculation of 1 cabin crew member per 50 installed passenger seats.

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Re:Icelandair letting go its flight attendants and shifting ... by freemonster on Saturday July 18, 2020 @09:25PM (#23886251)

Having extra pilots act as cabin crew should be ok with the numbers as long as they don't drop the count. The concern is are they qualified to act as flight attendants? When I read the article, it doesn't say the pilot and co-pilot would be cabin crew, it was additional pilots filling in. If so few people fly, there should be enough pilots. Not saying they want to do this or legal, but it would be possible.

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