面试官在问这个问题的时候一定不是期待你给她一个完美的教科书式回答,那样太显得生硬,像是在背诵课文。他们期待的是看到一个有sense去思考问题,有潜力成为一个解决问题的team player。
首先,你要表现出基本的常识。虽然每个国家对机舱吸烟的禁止时间不尽相同(20世纪80年代开始美国澳大利亚等国家陆续开始禁止机舱吸烟),但是当今社会,绝大多数的航空公司是视此为严重违反公共秩序行为的。之前有谣传阿联酋航空A380头等舱计划提供水烟服务,还一度上了一些网页,后来被证实是假新闻。不仅普通烟,雪茄,水烟及电子烟是均不可在机舱内使用。所以在回答时首先强调一下机舱吸烟行为是达到国际共识的一致制止, 不同于为乘客提供机舱服务时,需要空乘微笑及耐心地去服务,涉及到安全问题时是空乘唯一可以对乘客采取强硬态度的时候,也就是这时候你像乘客大吼也没有supervisor敢举报你。
然后我们便可以进入正题了。按照卡航的程序,空乘是按照这样的方法来解决此类问题的:
1. 乘客吸烟肯定是要冒出烟雾的对吧,那么机舱上敏感的烟雾警报器会连续发出“滴滴滴”的响声,然后空乘会检查是哪里的烟雾警报器在响。一般乘客会选择在洗手间吸烟,那么假设我们按到警报器位置走到案发洗手间,敲门三下并警告乘客开门。如果乘客拒绝那空乘当然是有另外的渠道将门打开。
2. 向他强调机舱上的‘禁止吸烟’牌示以及此行为严重违反卡航的规定等等,如:”You are requested to observe the 'NO SMOKING SIGN'.Smoking on board a Qatar Airways flight is a serious offense. Thismatter is against the Aviation Law and will be reported to thelocal authorities at the next destination.“
3. 找出烟头并用水灭掉,严重时需要采用灭火器。
4 . 索取他的登机牌,来确认他的身份信息,转交给机长并记录在AIR SAFETY REPORT里,进而在落地后转交相关部门处理。
5. 乘务长会提交一份报告给航空公司本部的安全部门。这时候乘客会被打入黑名单,以后做飞机的难度就大大增加了。
在处理过程中一定要时刻保持沟通。发现警报的人专心去发现烟雾源头,同时她也需要另外一个人时时与乘务长以及机长更新进展,还需要另一个人随时准备的灭火器以及防火手套等一切备用品来消除后患。时时交流很重要,这也是一个team player的重要品质,帮助大家高效的完成工作,保证乘客的安全。
下面是我按照以上分析思路写的一个回答样板:
First of all, I consider inflight smoking a serious offense to the public order and could be a potential hazard to the aircraft safety. I think as a cabin crew, we should take serious steps when solving these kind of problems,we can even shout at customers to show our affirmative attitude. Like we can enforce the passenger to observe the 'No Smoking' Sign on board and emphasize the rules that every passenger need to obey.
It is important to make our customer happy, but safety is also the first priority on board. Since the smoke is possible to cause a fire if it's not prevented in time.So the most important thing is to track down the resource of the smoke, and extinguish the smoke to prevent from further risking the passenger's safety.
Also, I would like to mention the necessity to communicate.We are working as a team with colleges from different countries. We should keep updating information to our colleges to obtain help and to complete our job more efficiently.