Few Nigerians Work As Cabin-Crew On International Airlines?
Ajanlekoko, an electrical engineer, is a Senior Manager in one of the telecommunication companies operating in Nigeria. He earlier made same post on Nairaland.com
Just occurred to me that you hardly ever run into Nigerians working as cabin crew on any of the major airlines.
Not even the ones with a huge national outlook, like BA, Lufthansa, or KLM. Even airlines like Qatar, Singapore Airlines, Emirates, that hire a very diverse mix, you find a lot of Kenyans, Ethiopian, and black South Africans working as cabin crew on those airlines.
But I have only ever come across one or two Nigerians on any of these airlines. One was obviously a Brit, though with a Nigerian name (that was on a BA flight to Toronto), and the other was on Qatar. And I fly international a lot, something like six times a year.
Anybody have a clue why this is so? I mean, we are quite well-represented in most endeavors across the world. I am not sure it is a reputation thing (before people start talking about Nigerians’ bad image). It can’t possibly be that.
Any ideas?
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