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Ground grew

Author: 1062929 Bonnie

1.    Interdiction

Many people dream of becoming a ground crew when they are a child, especially a girl. For me, it is my dream until now. It not only can make me wear a beautiful uniform but also work at the airport. I also love the atmosphere at the airport, because it is very international. I can see and communicate with foreigners, find some interesting thing between foreigners and us. I think it is interesting.

But in many people’s eye, the ground crew is not an important job, they also think that is an easy job. Actually, they are wrong, a complete airline needs to include every department. No one can be miss. Before ground crew starts their work, they need to arrive at the airport two hours earlier to make a briefing. The content of briefing is checking if today’s seat is sold out, oversold or how to assign the seat to the passenger. Or if there is any passenger has a particular case, such as a passenger who is vegetarian, passenger with baby, passenger who need a wheelchair, transfer passenger, transit passenger, or cabin-baggage and so on. They need to check those things before they start working. The work that ground grew is very complicated, if there happen any mistake, it will affect many things. So they all need to be cautious while checking any information.

Sometimes you need to face difficult people, they often have much ridiculous thought or behavior. So you need to find the solution immediately, or the passenger will out of patience. Maybe, the unreasonable people are your superiors, because their level is higher than you, so you can’t offend him/her.

2.    Job description

          Ground crew classifies as counter work and boarding gate work. The job that ground crew does is helping the passenger to check in, and check if their passport is expired. You also need to remind them do not put mobile power, lighter and scissors in their luggage, and ask them to be sure that if their luggage past the X-ray machine. In addition, to counter service, the ground crew also need to check is there any passenger have any help. Such as, if there is an elder need a wheelchair, you have to get one for him/her.

3.    Advantages of being a ground crew

          For those people who are new in this society, it is a good job for them. Although the salary of ground crew is in the median, not very high or very low, their basic salary is still each for you. The working time is only 8.5 hours. There are also many subsidies, such as food, transportation, and nighttime. The total of those subsidies is your real salary. So that is very each. If working time is in the wee hours, your company will pick you up to your home. This is very intimate for the girl if they need to go home by themselves. The second advantage, preferential of the boarding pass. Such as parents, husband, and child of the ground crew, they can have some discount of the boarding pass. (But the sister and brother cannot have this advantage). You can also have free some free boarding pass each year. (But you still need to pay airport tax). The third advantage is the vacation. You can have 10 days of vacation each month. When you work for a year in this airline, the company will give you another 7 days for the bonus. Then, if you are good at planning your schedule, you can relax yourself to travel.

4.    Disadvantages of being a ground crew

The disadvantage of the ground crew must be shift work. The time which ground crew work classifies as morning shift, middle shift and night shift. The time of morning shift is 3:30 or 4:15. The time of the middle shift is 10:30, 12:00 and 14:00. And the time of night shift is 17:30, 18:30 and 20:00. You will have more than 10 days of the morning shift, 3 or 4 days of middle shift and 5 or 6 days of the night shift. So the usual lift might be wake up at 2:30 and get to work, or just only can sleep in early in the morning tomorrow. Lots of people can stand this because it turns night into day. At first, many people will get sick, such as headache, catch a cold, cough, run at the nose and even cough with some blood. So if you want to do this job, you need to stand this system.

5.    Long-term career development

If you are tired of being a ground crew, you can consider being a flight attendant. If your language ability is very well it will not hard for you. But you need to adopt new life, such as living in an airplane, the biological clock will mess up, and you also can not get home very often. But the advantage of the flight attendant is that you can have a little trap while you fly to another country, it can widen your vision.

6.    Who suits this job?

          If a person who can stand this shift system, it must very suit for this job. But you also need to have the basic language ability, such as more than TOEIC 600, BULATS 45, IELTS 4.5 or TOEFL (ITP 480/iBT 64). Also, need some experiences of booking boarding pass, or good as searching on the internet and speaking skill of telephone. And the important one is confidence, and passion for this job.

7.    How to become a ground crew

If you want to become a ground crew. You need to have the following qualifications.

I.          Language ability (TOEIC 600 at less)

II.         Some experiences of booking boarding pass

III.       Good at communicating

IV.       The passion for this job

V.        Confidence

8.    References:

I.          想考航空地勤看這邊:

http://pupulike123.pixnet.net/blog/post/137697308-%5B%E8%88%AA%E7%A9%BA%5D%E6%83%B3%E8%80%83%E8%88%AA%E7%A9%BA%E5%9C%B0%E5%8B%A4%E7%9C%8B%E9%80%99%E9%82%8A

II.        航空地勤工作內容(一):

http://rhoda00491a.pixnet.net/blog/post/204811825-%E8%88%AA%E7%A9%BA%E5%9C%B0%E5%8B%A4%E5%B7%A5%E4%BD%9C%E6%97%A5%E8%AA%8C%28%E4%B8%80%29

III.      地勤到底在幹嘛:

http://rhoda00491a.pixnet.net/blog/post/205272436-%E5%9C%B0%E5%8B%A4%E5%88%B0%E5%BA%95%E5%9C%A8%E5%B9%B9%E5%98%9B

Interviewee: Laura’s cousin

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       One day here comes a boy who called Thomas, everyone come and visit him. Later Alby (a leader of Glade) take him to look around the whole environment, and he adapts very soon. One day, he wants to visit the maze, although he knows that is dangerous. But he wants to go outside, so he decides to find the way to pass the maze with Minho. After fighting with Griever and almost dead, they finally get outside. But this is not the end, laboratory cheats them, so they didn’t finish their test, they just go to another more difficult test.

       I love this type of movie, such as Divergent and The Hunger Games. If you also like the type of anti-utopia, I recommend you to watch it.

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hyena. Pi still afraid because he afraid he is the next one to be killed, but fortunately, they get along well. After 227 days later, Pi drifting to Mexico. At the moment on the coast, Parker runs into the forest. It makes Pi feel a little sad, then he was saved. A few days ago, here comes two investigators visit him and ask him have happened while he was on the lifeboat. But investigators don’t believe him because they think that is impossible. So Pi changes the character to human but animal. Later, the investigator finds out that it heard similar than the animal version. So they believe Pi and report it.

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