Going to the Grassroots in the Spring Festival ｜ Yi Jia, the flight attendant of China Eastern Airlines： Serving ＂Spring Festival travel rush＂ and ＂Wrong Peak＂ are also happy during the holidays
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"This year’s Spring Festival is earlier, and it is also the third Spring Festival travel rush under the influence of the epidemic. On January 24th, a flight from Pudong, Shanghai to Liuzhou, Guangxi just flew, and the joy and happiness of the passengers going home can’t be hidden." Yi Jia, a senior flight attendant with 18 years’ working experience in the cabin service department of China Eastern Airlines, talked about this year’s Spring Festival travel rush, with the same happy smile on her face, which is easy to ignore. She has not been at home for the Spring Festival for ten years.
Yi Jia introduced herself as a bit "chatty", and people who meet "right eyes" will have a chat. Because of the working relationship of the flight attendant, besides the cabin service on the flight and communication with the crew, communication with the passengers from south to north, and caring about the passengers’ flight experience are also things she likes to do. "I was deeply impressed by the flight to Liuzhou that day. A passenger happened to come to the back cabin, and we just had an exchange. I said that you seemed very excited." The passenger said, "I can’t go home for the New Year in 2020 or 2021. Many colleagues around me can’t go home this year because my home is in an epidemic-prone area. Although I have to go back and forth this time and there are many people waiting in line to do nucleic acid, I feel very lucky."
The Spring Festival is the warmest festival in Chinese, which spans thousands of miles just for a reunion.
In Yi Jia’s view, although the Spring Festival gives everyone different feelings, no matter how far you are from home and where you work, as long as you are in the Spring Festival, you still want to go back to your place and reunite with your family. This passenger feels very lucky, and that excitement can be seen from his face. More interestingly, the passenger also asked Yi Jia: "How do you arrange for the New Year?" "We responded to the call of the country to celebrate the New Year with you. When you celebrate the New Year, you will be sent back as a ferryman. When the New Year is not so busy, we will rest in peace and celebrate the New Year with our families." Yi Jia smiled in response.
She joined the work in 2004 and transferred to Shanghai in 2007. Yi Jia, a flight attendant, has been working as a flight attendant. Because my father died and my mother was alone in her hometown of Chongqing, I was particularly homesick every Spring Festival. One year during the Spring Festival, Yi Jia happened to fly to Chongqing. Thinking of her mother and relatives in this city, she took a picture with the word "Chongqing" at the door of the airplane cabin and sent it to her circle of friends, but after thinking about it, she quickly deleted it. "As a flight attendant, I don’t want too many people to know that I’m homesick too, lest the team be sad by me during the New Year," she explained.
Yi Jia’s mother remembers most clearly how many years she hasn’t been back to Chongqing for the Spring Festival: "Except when you gave birth, we went to Shanghai to take care of you and celebrate the Spring Festival. You haven’t been home for the Spring Festival since you worked." Yi Jia also explained to his family that because of the particularity of the flight crew, there is no way to make arrangements for the holidays in advance. Sometimes I just have to leave my mother in Chongqing, but my heart is always there. Every time I talk about the topic of "flying during the Spring Festival", Yi Jia, a woman, a wife and a mother, secretly "wipes her tears" because her family can’t reunite for the holidays. However, her husband understood, comforted and supported her: "The flight attendants want to go home for the New Year, the police also want to go home for the New Year, and the doctors in the emergency room also want to celebrate the New Year. Who doesn’t want to celebrate the New Year? But everyone has a responsibility in their work, and sticking to their posts means taking on this responsibility …". Because of the responsibility, I persisted. Yi Jia also said that her persistence was accompanied by the blessing of "love".
In Spring Festival travel rush this year, epidemic prevention and control is still the top priority. Yi Jia said: "Our flight attendants want to fly to a place. Before flying, we must know the epidemic prevention level and epidemic prevention policy of the destination. The nucleic acid requirements of the corresponding units in each area are also different. This information will be repeatedly confirmed during the pre-flight preparation meeting; We should also do our own protection and protection with passengers, including wearing our own masks and gloves, and remind passengers to do their best; Another is the disinfection work in areas such as toilets. There are strict corresponding standards, and various epidemic prevention plans have been running through the entire flight. "
Because of flying for a long time, Yi Canon, who is already a senior flight attendant, is competent for all kinds of models, large and small, and also serves as a part-time "teacher" and does a good job of "mentoring". On January 18th, she also flew a wide-body A350 from Shanghai Pudong to Amsterdam, which was a "passenger-to-cargo" flight. Although there are no passengers, the intensity of safety inspection has not been relaxed at all. "If the cabin is loaded, then’ goods’ are passengers. Every 15 minutes, we have to patrol the cabin with oxygen bottles on our backs to check the cargo fixation." The epidemic prevention and control of international flights is a very important link. When the plane is about to descend, Yi Jia and all the crew have to put on protective clothing and become "big white". After arrival, they will complete the handover with local staff. The cabin will also be strictly divided into clean area, buffer area and cargo area, and each area has very strict operation procedures and regulations. Since the outbreak of the epidemic, international passenger flights have plummeted, and global freight demand has exploded. China Eastern Airlines has taken the initiative to change and took the lead in implementing "passenger-to-cargo" flights as a supplement to all-cargo intercontinental transportation to ensure smooth global industrial chain and supply chain. It is the strict implementation of these systems that ensures the epidemic prevention safety of flights.
Whether it’s a passenger flight or a cargo flight, the crew after the international flight will enter the "isolation" state according to the regulations, and there will be less time to get together with their families. Yi Jia recalled: "Last month, I flew a Pudong-Seoul round-trip international passenger flight on the same day. After staying in a hotel and other nucleic acids came out, I flew another Pudong-Frankfurt round-trip international passenger flight. After I came back, I was isolated. From going out to going home, it took more than 20 days at a time."
Yi Jia said with a smile: "Under the epidemic situation, the isolation of the unit is not only a common occurrence, but also a continuous improvement of the psychological quality of the family. My husband and mother-in-law often come to see me, and we waved from afar. My husband did not forget to remind me on the phone to take advantage of the isolation time and have a good rest, and also made the courseware as a service teacher …" Yi Jia also said that as a new Shanghainese, she especially liked Shanghai. Under the current epidemic situation, it is not easy for all walks of life. Yi Jia said that the care of the employees of the big family of China Eastern Airlines, the carefully arranged flight protection and the life during the quarantine period made the crew feel warm and warm. "My sense of happiness is very high, not only from this city, but also from the’ big family’ of China Eastern Airlines."
In a few days, Yi Jia will know the flight schedule during the Spring Festival holiday. She said, "I’m definitely going to fly …". (Text/Photo: Correspondent Tax Ning)
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