During those years, I’ve had 3 major life threatening events on board my flights not to mention the many health crisis involving our passengers. The last 20 years, I flew international trips. Now retired, I was a flight attendant for 37+ years. Sincerely, someone from an aviation family of both pilots and flight attendants.Īfter reading comments I realize how easy it is for most to have an opinion (a published one at that) all from the comfort of your seats. Just giving you all a different perspective instead of the one sided view you have. They understand both jobs and how disgustingly people treat them. There are also so many of them who are servers/waitress on their days off to make extra money. They constantly say Flights attendants do the hard job. Pilots are only flying the plane for takeoff and landing, the rest is on autopilot, that is no disrespect to them as they will tell you that themselves. Flight attendants are so useless until you need them for something or you have an emergency. Most people are tightening their seatbelts during turbulence while they are handling a 200+ pound cart in the aisle. Can you locate and properly use the safety equipment on board. You couldn’t even operate the exit doors properly if needed. I would love to see half you evacuate an aircraft in 90 seconds or even know how to operate the aircraft door. They have been awake before you even start your day. They are away from home 3-4 days with less than 12 hours of rest in between those days. They cross multiple time zones in a single day. Majority of Flight attendants work 16 hour days and about 10 hours of that day is unpaid labor. Unions will deny it, but this change will mean incrementally slower wage growth.Ī lot of these comments are wrong and most people don’t understand a flight attendant’s work schedule. If an airline can incur certain crew costs, and more of those costs are imposed by government, that’s less money left for raises. The part most people aren’t going to see is that by imposing higher flight attendant costs on airlines through government work rules will limit the pay increases that flight attendants are able to achieve. The proportion of each will depend on the particulars of the rules released on Tuesday. Some flight attendants will get schedules they prefer, others will get schedules they like less. Tighter rest rules will mean more flight attendants needed to staff the same flights, which is good for flight attendants unions. That’s a consistent theme for the current administration, and the same reason the Biden administration dithered so long on a Jones Act waiver for emergency supplies to be delivered to Puerto Rico. Underlying new rules will be an effort by the administration to intercede in collective bargaining on behalf of unions. But the FAA won’t have real evidence that current schedules are unsafe given that commercial air travel is the safest mode of transportation and has become more so decade after decade. The FAA excuse for getting involved will be safety, saying flight attendants need more rest to reliably perform safety duties. Still, flight attendants are unionized, and work schedules should be part of collective bargaining not government mandate. An airline can replace flight attendants far more quickly. They don’t have the leverage and aren’t in nearly as short supply. NEW: The FAA will announce tomorrow that flight attendants will get more mandated rest time between flights, two sources familiar with the announcement tell CNN.įlight attendants don’t get nearly the respect at airlines that pilots do. Now the federal government is stepping in to mandate more rest. These longer trips may have had more waiting time between flights, or more running from flight to flight, often with legal minimum rest. Flight attendants who used to work 3 days trips may have worked 4 day trips when airlines were short staffed. There are some absolutely brutal schedules that many flights attendants have to work. While they’re required to perform safety checks, they serve drinks and snacks and listen to customers complain about delays, the quality of the drinks and snacks, and about other passengers. Most flight attendants, though, never face true life and death safety issues during their career. Flight attendants are mandatory on commercial aircraft for safety reasons, primarily but not exclusively in the event of an evacuation.
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