Foreign MAS Cabin Crews

[Isaac 0]

Any idea how many foreign cabin crews MAS have now ?

 

How many of them are

- Mexican

- Japanese

- Korean

- Chinese (from Mainland China)

- Chinese (from Taiwan aka Taiwanese)

- Bangla

- Indian (from India)

- Indonesian

 

Thanks in advance !

 

 

[M N Fairizuan 0]

How many exactly, I can't remember,

 

But currently we have crew from the following nationalities

- Chinese

- Indian

- Japanese

- South Korean

- Indonesian

- South African

 

- Mexican - No more already

- Taiwanese - I don't think we have any as we have local mandarin crew

 

Total cabin crew almost 6000.

 

Thanks.

[Jamie H 0]

I love the Japanese crews........like the way they say "terima kasih"........so cute!!!

[Imran K. 0]

I met two American's (but sorta Malaysianized....married to locals) who were F/A's on my flight to DXB.

Very beautiful...both internally and externally

[Guest Fendy]

are the spanish speaking crews of MH locals? i remember seeing an FA with the mexican flag on her name tag on MH202.

[Isaac 0]

 

But currently we have crew from the following nationalities

- Chinese

- Indian

- Japanese

- South Korean

- Indonesian

- South African

 

- Mexican - No more already

- Taiwanese - I don't think we have any as we have local mandarin crew

 

Total cabin crew almost 6000.

 

Thanks.

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Thanks Fairizuan. So i assume the Chinese are from Mainland China, not local ones ?

 

About the Mexican crew, MAS didn't want to renew their contract or what ? If i'm not mistaken, didn't MAS have 3 or 4 Argentinians crew too ?

 

[M N Fairizuan 0]

Your most welcome.

 

Yes Malaysia Airlines CFSS or Chinese Flight Stewardesses are from Mainland China. While Mandarin Crew Flight Stewards/Stewardesses are Malaysian.

 

In our folder room we have section for Japanese, Chinese, South Korean, Mandarin, Indonesian, Indian and local crew.

 

As per new contract, all foreign crew to be base in KUL and not at their native country. So I'm not very sure.

 

Maybe we still have few permanent mexican or spanish speaking crew as per old contract just like the south african crew. I'll try to find out.

 

Thanks.

 

[Isaac 0]

Yes Malaysia Airlines CFSS or Chinese Flight Stewardesses are from Mainland China. While Mandarin Crew Flight Stewards/Stewardesses are Malaysian.

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Fairizuan, why MAS refer Malaysian Chinese crew as "Mandarin crew" ? I thought Mandarin is supposed to be a language ?

 

Maybe we still have few permanent mexican or spanish speaking crew as per old contract just like the south african crew. I'll try to find out.

 

Thanks.

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Thank you, Fairizuan.

Edited October 20, 2005 by Isaac

[M N Fairizuan 0]

Yes Mandarin is a language. Maybe to avoid confusion? As the label in folder room goes by nationalities.

- Chinese for Mainland China.

- Indonesian for Indonesia.

- Japanese for Japan.

- Staff ID for Malaysian.

- etc

 

Mandarin crew usually operates taiwan routes. So they have separate folder for roster, memo and circulars regarding taiwan routes/in flight services/s.o.p and etc.

 

At the same time, I think CCLOPS (Cabin Crew Line Ops) do not want to distinguished Malaysian by their races. After all, we all Malaysian

[S V Choong 4]

Now I understand why some cabin crew's mandarin are quite good, they do have some mainland chinese onboard.

[M N Fairizuan 0]

Isaac,

 

I can confirm now that we still have few Mexican crews.

 

As for spanish speaking latinas, few weeks ago, back in Malaysia Airlines Academy, we have newly recruited Argentinean crew reporting for training, 4 of them. I guess EZE is doing quite well.

Edited November 7, 2005 by M N Fairizuan

[Pieter C. 5]

WOW, are they males or females ?

 

The latter are quite pretty (ask our crown-prince in NL )

[Ricky Tiong 0]

Now I understand why some cabin crew's mandarin are quite good, they do have some mainland chinese onboard.

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Same here. During me last trip to China with MAS I found their mandarin sounds different as in it does not sound the same way that we speak in Malaysia.

Edited November 7, 2005 by Ricky Tiong

[Y. J. Foo 0]

I met one of those Mainland China crew in February this year through my aunt who is also a crew. As far as I know they (Mainland China crew) do not serve taiwan routes. But anyway why we still need them when chinese speaking fluent Mandarin are readily availalbe??? IIRC she was also surprised...

 

And I also recall MAS used to have VS crew aboard their codeshare flights. Too bad not anymore...

[Isaac 0]

Isaac,

 

I can confirm now that we still have few Mexican crews.

 

As for spanish speaking latinas, few weeks ago, back in Malaysia Airlines Academy, we have newly recruited Argentinean crew reporting for training, 4 of them. I guess EZE is doing quite well.

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Wow great

 

Thanks by the way, Fairizuan.

 

Now I understand why some cabin crew's mandarin are quite good, they do have some mainland chinese onboard.

Choong, you can know whether they are Malaysian Chinese or Mainland Chinese through their name tag (look for the PRC flag beside their name, if there isn't one mean they are Malaysian Chinese).

 

I met one of those Mainland China crew in February this year through my aunt who is also a crew. As far as I know they (Mainland China crew) do not serve taiwan routes. But anyway why we still need them when chinese speaking fluent Mandarin are readily availalbe??? IIRC she was also surprised...

Y.J.Foo, MAS want them because Mainland China crew can speak better Mandarin and also many Malaysian Chinese who are interested in this job mostly prefer to work with SIA (higher salary and many more). It is also because many Chinese from Mainland China don't understand our Mandarin or any other Chinese Languages such as Cantonese, Teochew, Hokkien and many more vv. (ok, we all know why )

 

 

 

 

[S V Choong 4]

Choong, you can know whether they are Malaysian Chinese or Mainland Chinese through their name tag (look for the PRC flag beside their name, if there isn't one mean they are Malaysian Chinese).

 

Isaac, do me a favour, don't treat me like a 3 year old

Of course I know. Nowdays, all mainlanders name are spelt according to Hanyu Pinyin standard. Taiwanese (ROC) are all under the Wades-Giles (rather inaccurate) Mandarin standard, Hong Kongers and Macanese - the Cantonese standard. While Chinese from Malaysia and Singapore goes according to their very own dialect, but again, inaccuracy or non-standard type.

 

Isaac, you have a point. Most Northerners can't understand Southerners very well when speaking Mandarin (as we don't roll our tongues ). As we Southerners aren't as rough as them But we have an increasing number of Chinese Malaysian aren't proficient enough in Mandarin or Chinese in that matter.

Edited November 8, 2005 by S V Choong

[Isaac 0]

Isaac, do me a favour, don't treat me like a 3 year old

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Sorry lor ... thought you don't know mah ...

 

[Isaac 0]

Of course I know.  Nowdays, all mainlanders name are spelt according to Hanyu Pinyin standard.  Taiwanese (ROC) are all under the Wades-Giles (rather inaccurate) Mandarin standard, Hong Kongers and Macanese - the Cantonese standard.  While Chinese from Malaysia and Singapore goes according to their very own dialect, but again, inaccuracy or non-standard type.

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Hmm ... Choong, i think there might be some confusion ... I meant if there is no PRC flag beside their name, that means they are Malaysian Chinese. Not about how Chinese Mainlanders names are spelt. In fact, i didn't know their name are spelt using Hanyu Pinyin until you said in the above post.

 

(look for the PRC flag beside their name, if there isn't one mean they are Malaysian Chinese).

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