A319
Flight Attendant Current
Physiological - Other; Situational Awareness
Aircraft Equipment Problem Less Severe
Flight Crew Diverted; Flight Crew Landed As Precaution; General Flight Cancelled / Delayed; General Maintenance Action
Aircraft; Human Factors; Procedure
Flight Attendant A called C and B to forward galley and asked if we noticed any smell. There was a wet; dirty sock smell; and A called the Captain to inform him of our observations. We landed at a divert airport and outside Maintenance was called to check for issues. After six hours of tests; flight was canceled and flight attendants went to hotel and cockpit crew ferried to a Maintenance base.
An A319 Flight Attendant crew all detected a wet; dirty socks odor in the forward galley area. The Captain was notified and diverted to a nearby airport where the flight was canceled while the pilots ferried the aircraft to a maintenance base.