Monthly Archives for July 2024.
She’s three years into her flight attendant career, already has a social media following of over 100,000 to sell to, and since flight attendant pay is very low until you gain seniority she’s looking to make extra money.
A passenger on a South Africa flight found a dog occupying his leg space for the entire journey. There was nothing he could do about it, so he just drank. “My dad is on a long flight back from South Africa and mentioned he’s had about 40 screwdrivers. When I asked why, he sent me this,” adding “the 40 drinks deep and 20 hours is an exaggeration btw. I think the actual flight is 16 to 18 hours.”
An Air Canada flight from Casablanca to Montreal was cancelled on Friday after a flight attendant went berserk on a passenger who asked for a blanket. The cabin for flight 73 was cold, and video shows the purser responding aggressively.
The crewmember yells in French and in English, “You will behave or we will get off!” and “I don’t want no bullying against my crew.” She also yells at passengers who were recording her rant. The blanket offender asks for the captain, and the flight attendant refuses.
One Mile at a Time says ‘pulling strings’ to do this is ‘creepy’. But would he even have needed to ‘pull strings’ with a connection as the son of the airline’s by then deposed founder, in order to do this?
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A new American Airlines flight attendants contract gives crew immediate 18% – 20.5% raises, starts paying them (at half pay) during boarding during the first time, and adopts Delta’s generous profit-sharing formula. They also get changes to work rules, meal costs on the road and retirement contributions. It was likely the most they could get from an airline that underperforms financially, putting them on equal footing or slightly above the next-best paid flight attendants in the industry. But it doesn’t give them everything they’d hoped for.
Online, flight attendants are griping.
People have been joining the ‘Mile High Club’ since 1916 when Lawrence Burst Sperry, inventor of the autopilot, took a Curtis C-2 Flying Boat off the coast of Long Island and spent time with a woman whose husband was off in World War I. They crashed the plane into the bay and were rescued – naked – by duck hunters.
According to a source close to the matter but not authorized to speak, a long-term deal was reached. The parties should be announcing it soon.
Airport lounges used to be the domain of business travelers, with bars and business centers. But the face of travel, and premium travel, has changed. There’s far more premium leisure than there used to be and lounges frequently cater to families.
Sometimes it seems like club lounges are really just daycare centers?
The single best way to protect yourself against airline screwups is to make more than one flight booking, on two different airlines. This has been made much easier and less costly by changes to airline policies since the pandemic.
Gary Leff is one of the foremost experts in the field of miles, points, and frequent business travel -- a topic he has covered since 2002.
Co-founder of frequent flyer community InsideFlyer.com, emcee of the Freddie Awards, and named one of the "World's Top Travel Experts" by Conde' Nast Traveler (2010-Present) Gary has been a guest on most major news media, profiled in several top print publications, and published broadly on the topic of consumer loyalty. More About Gary »
