What Flying Was like before Flight Attendants Won and the Smoke ClearedPressure from a flight attendants' union was crucial to the banimposed on smoking on domestic...Sharkey, Joe
What is a flight attendant? As a flight attendant, you act as the face of an airline during flights. Your work combines ensuring customer safety as well as satisfaction for short and long haul trips. Flight crew attendants help to make flights an enjoyable experience for passengers. They provi...
When you see a Black pilot, do you say, “Oh my God, you’re a Black pilot”? —Pilot for a regional carrier. iStock/Terraxplorer There’s a good reason for everything we ask you to do We ask you to put up the window shade so the flight attendants can see outside in an ...
At the first sign of a medical emergency, flight attendants are the primary line of defense: They’re specially trained on what to do during in-flight emergencies, including administering basic first aid and operating an automatic external defibrillator, or AED (a device that analyzes the heartbe...
Because the base pay is pretty low, many flight attendants pick up additional trips in order to earn more. 17. Choosing an airline to work for has a lot to do with union preferences. The biggest difference between the major carriers in the United States is whether they’re unionized. ...
ESAs offer emotional support services to their owners but do not require any special training. They are expected to behave appropriately and not cause a disruption or they can be removed. Because of this, there is some question as to the protections offered by the Air Carrier Access Act and...
Your emotional support animal may not need paperwork confirming their training, but Frontier Airlines ESA policy clearly states their right to refuse to accommodate animals that appear to be a danger to flight attendants or other passengers, or cause disruption in the cabin. The same policy applies...
The Air Line Pilots Association is an AFL-CIO union, and United flight attendants union AFA-CWA is as well. AFA-CWA head Sara Nelson was up for head of the AFL-CIO, so she’s out in force with United pilots. She wants their support. Most of the rest of the marchers are well off...
The flight attendants were very thankful for what we had done and cared for us carefully even though we were no longer sitting in first class, and we both made friends with the people sitting around us and had a great flight. I had to go back to the front of the p...
Sara Nelson, international president of the Association of Flight Attendants, works a trip before the pandemic. Courtesy Association of Flight Attendants-CWA CNN: Data from the FAA shows more than 70% of the incidents on planes this year are over masks. Why do you think that is happening?