Storbritannia legger restriksjon på visum til dusjassistenter
https://onemileatatime.com/uk-bans-emirates-shower-attendants/
https://onemileatatime.com/uk-bans-emirates-shower-attendants/
Emirates has a dedicated shower attendant on every A380 flight that is long enough to offer showers. The catch is that these attendants aren’t actually flight attendants, so they don’t have a flying license:
They don’t have to go through the same training as flight attendants
They technically have to be seated when the seatbelt sign is on
They are paid significantly less than Emirates flight attendants
It used to be that there were two shower attendants on ultra long haul flights (they’ve reduced that to one), and when that was the case, shower attendants shared rooms on layovers
Anyway, it looks like the UK is suddenly taking issue with Emirates’ use of shower attendants…
Effective immediately, Emirates is no longer rostering shower attendants on UK flights (including to London, Manchester, and Glasgow). As Emirates describes it, they have been informed by UK Border Control that they have a “restriction with entry of non-licensed crew.”
Essentially airline crews have special visa privileges on account of being crew. However, since shower attendants technically aren’t crew and don’t have flying licenses they don’t benefit from that… or at least that’s what the UK has now decided.