A United Airlines flight attendant has penned an essay explaining why it may appear that flight attendants do not like their jobs. As a new collective bargaining agreement remains unsigned, flight attendants are grappling with low morale and frustration in the Friendly Skies.
Our contract expired in 2021. Senior FAs haven’t had a raise in four years despite record inflation. New hire FAs are living in poverty.
New hires are sent to some of the highest cost of living cities in the US to be on call for 24 hours day and night on ready reserve days. They can expect to make about $30-40k their first year. A lot of flight attendants are effectively homeless and make it work with layovers, friends, and/or a crash pad (a shared living situation – my first in SFO had 25 people, 12 in my room, and I paid $400/mo).
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