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Does United Airlines Have The Answer To Improving Flight Attendant Service?

by Gary Leff on March 21, 2021

Mar 21 2021

At most U.S. airlines if a flight attendant provides great service it’s because of their own inner drive. It’s not because of any training program or incentives that the company has set up.

One of the most frustrating thing I hear from cabin crew all the time is about the small percentage of their colleagues who are slackers, who perform poorly and do as little work as possible (increasing the workload for everyone else). This is frustrating because there’s usually very little consequence. And seeing poor performers do just as well as those who provide exemplary service is demoralizing.

Appeals Court Rules Each State Can Mandate Inflight Work Rules For Flight Attendants Based There

by Gary Leff on March 4, 2021

Mar 04 2021

One of the more complicated legal issues I come across is what airline practices states are allowed to regulate, and which ones they aren’t. The Airline Deregulation Act makes issues of price, routes, and service a matter for federal regulation, seeking to avoid a ‘patchwork’ of 50 sets of rules for interstate travel.

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled, though, that California’s meal and rest break rules can be applied to airline crew. And that’s true even for crew who spend a majority of their work time outside the state.

American Airlines Should Spend Government Payroll Subsidies On.. Payroll

by Gary Leff on February 27, 2021

Feb 27 2021

American Airlines is bringing 11 pilots back to work after furlough. They’ll start requalification training on March 2, 2021. All of them have received a WARN Act notice, letting them know they may be re-furloughed at the start of April.

One thing that’s boosted how much money American Airlines keeps for itself out of the second bailout is voluntary leaves. They’ve convinced employees to go on unpaid leaves. Many thought they would collect unemployment, understanding that American would not contest these claims.

Flight Attendants Are Pushing For Creation Of National No-Fly List To Ban Ill-Behaved Passengers

by Gary Leff on February 17, 2021

Feb 17 2021

In an update from the head of the American Airlines flight attendants union, crewmembers were briefed on the union’s priorities, reflected in their discussions with Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg.

This includes a third airline bailout, vaccine priority, and a “a comprehensive ‘No-Fly List’ to further address threatening and abusive behavior on the airplane”

American Airlines Flight Attendants Need 50 Years With The Company To Get A Schedule Out Of Phoenix

by Gary Leff on February 10, 2021

Feb 10 2021

American Airlines isn’t operating as many flights as it used to. They’ve downsized their Phoenix flight attendant base as well. US Airways needed a large contingent out of Phoenix before merging with American, because it was the airline’s only hub west of Charlotte. That’s no longer the case.

Many flight attendants who weren’t furloughed back in the fall have transferred to other cities. Those that remain are only getting assigned to flight schedules right now, versus working reserve, if they’ve been with the company for fifty years. You’d need a start date in the summer of 1971 to avoid working reserve right now.

American Airlines Bringing 1000 Flight Attendants Back April 1, As They Threaten April Furloughs

by Gary Leff on February 3, 2021

Feb 03 2021

American Airlines says they have too many employees to service passenger demand. The latest round of subsidies allows them to furlough again April 1. They haven’t sent out WARN Act notices yet. So they continue to being flight attendants back in for duty, with 1000 more told to begin April 1. They could find themselves working for just a matter of days.

American Airlines Tells Flight Attendants They’ll Be Laid Off Again, Third Government Bailout Requested

by Gary Leff on January 29, 2021

Jan 29 2021

In December Congress passed a $15 billion airline payroll bailout, requiring airlines to bring furloughed employees back to work and pay everyone December 1 through March 31, 2021. Per furloughed worker this was the most expensive jobs program in history (at over $1.1 million annualized per job) and American says it’s only spending 10% of the $3 billion it received on furloughed workers.

American’s flight attendants union says it was told to prepare for a new round of WARN Act notices, so we may be starting layoffs all over again – and they along with another union are asking the government for a third airline bailout. Maybe this time most of the money won’t go to shareholders and creditors instead of workers.

China Tells Flight Attendant To Wear Diapers Instead Of Using Lavatory On Risky Flights

by Gary Leff on December 10, 2020

Dec 10 2020

The sixth edition of CAAC’s Technical Guidelines for Prevention and Control of Epidemics in Transport Airlines and Airports lays out the country’s plan to avoid spreading infection while managing inbound international traffic. Domestic travel has largely recovered to pre-pandemic levels, but strict limits are placed on international travel to avoid importing SARS-CoV-2 back into the country.

Wearing diapers and avoiding the lavatory are just one of many strategies – including masks, gloves, goggles, hair nets, and hazmat suits – that are recommended for crew on flights bringing people back from places where the virus is spreading. Planes have quarantine sections of the aircraft cordoned off for anyone who shoes symptoms of infection, in order to separate them from other passengers and crew.

Ex-Emirates Flight Attendant Has 180 Million Likes Sharing What Passengers And Crew Are Really Like

by Gary Leff on December 9, 2020

Dec 09 2020

Sandra Jeenie Kwon is a former Emirates flight attendant with over 180 million likes on TikTok and with four million followers across social media platforms (here’s her instagram. At times she’ll post several videos a day, acting out the funny behaviors of passengers, and of cabin crew.

Here she acts out when a cabin crewmember finds a passenger attractive…

Flight Attendants Called The Cops On Passenger Who Complained They Weren’t Wearing Masks

by Gary Leff on November 24, 2020

Nov 24 2020

An American Airlines passenger says flight attendants retaliated against him for pointing out they hadn’t been wearing masks.

Police met his aircraft in Palm Springs and took him into “a tiny, non-vented room” and told him he was reported as an “unruly passenger.”