On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 16:37:17 +0000 (UTC),
(Paul Tomblin) wrote:

In a previous article, AJC said:
On 21 Jul 2004 10:50:02 -0400, HECTOP wrote:
Talk about air rage!
http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/europe....ap/index.html


Talk about getting subjects wrong! They weren't Aeroflot flight
attendants.

They weren't? Then why does the article say "Two crew members on a
domestic Aeroflot flight beat up a passenger who had complained that the
flight attendants were drunk, airline spokeswoman Irina Dannenberg said."?

That one sentence confirms that they were on an Aeroflot flight, and that
the people doing the assault were flight attendants. That makes them
"Aeroflot flight attendants" by any definition of the word. Yes, they
were subcontracted from another airline, but as long as it's an Aeroflot
flight, they're Aeroflot flight attendants.

The flight was a TU154 owned and operated and crewed by Aviaenergo. It
just had an Aeroflot flight number. The flight attendants were paid,
trained, and could well be fired by Aviaenergo. They were not Aeroflot
flight attendants, any more than the flight attendants on Northwest
flight NW8651 are Northwest flight attendants.
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