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Carter keeps her $800,000 award against Southwest. She also keeps her $300,000 punitive award against TWU 556. And she’s entitled to reinstatement and back‑pay. And the union still owes a penalty for religious freedom violations.
A United airlines flight attendant has sparked significant backlash after sharing a Paris layover story online. She and her fellow crewmembers left a junior flight attendant behind at Charles de Gaulle Airport. Rather than feeling bad about this, she criticized the colleague for being “cheap” and bringing her own food which caused them to separate.
Suddenly United Airlines is banning customer-facing employees from wearing any pin other than an American flag pin. They are currently allowed a choice of 18 approved pins on their uniform.
A United Airlines flight attendant called for security on an elderly disabled first class passenger who asked for assistance stowing her cane and small purse, since she’s not allowed to keep them with her for takeoff because she was seated in a bulkhead row.
An airline passenger is going viral after a flight attendant asked her to stop knitting during a flight. The crewmember suggested that having needles during an emergency could be risky.
The woman shows the moment she had to stow her knitting project after the flight attendant urged her to consider whether she’d really want to grip sharp objects if trouble struck at cruising altitude. She couldn’t finish the sock.
An American Airlines 25 year veteran flight attendant who was assaulted by a passenger on a Charlotte – Las Vegas flight has been fired by the airline over the incident. As usual, the crewmember’s union has not been helpful.
A TikTok influencer faked her Emirates first class experience. She got called out for it online by an Emirates flight attendant, and now that crewmember is in trouble.
Choosing to undertake prohibited behavior doesn’t get a free pass simply because the intended audience consists of members of a protected class. And the flight attendant has said that wasn’t true anyway, she was doing the twerk for herself, to ‘celebrate the end of her probationary period’ and because she was bored during a delay.
Usually flight crew stick together. Here, a United flight attendant saw their colleague’s behavior as so far out of bounds that they encouraged a passenger to report it. United’s discipline of other flight crew suggests this might get some management attention. However, it might carry even more weight coming from another employee than from a customer.
They want to cram in as many passengers as possible. Every inch that’s used for something else – like lavatories and gallies – is seen as money left on the table.
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.
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