Overview
- RTL’s Inside AIDA documentary, released Thursday, goes aboard the 337-meter AIDA Cosma, which carries over 6,500 guests and about 1,500 crew.
- The film names pay ranges, including about €2,000 to €2,300 gross for a reception worker and roughly €900 gross a month for an Indonesian cabin steward, with room and meals provided plus flights and health insurance covered.
- Crew describe heavy schedules, with the steward cleaning 15 to 19 cabins a day and working around 12 hours daily for seven days a week.
- RTL attributes lower wages for some staff to the ship sailing under the Italian flag, which applies Italian labor law, and to union-negotiated rates that track a worker’s country of origin, with roughly three quarters of the crew from Asia.
- Reaction is split, as FOCUS Online dismisses the program as promotional while other coverage highlights its concrete pay and workload details.