Grade-A b**tch FA's at AA

[Dornier 335]

The F/A's at AA are angels when compared with their gate agents....

From a personal experience I must say this is true. There's a reason they are being nicknamed "Eva" ...

 

[satpak77]

1. It was paid ticket

2. I re-affirm that attitude towards paying customers is a poor way to represent the company

3. They were major b**tches

 

[Giggity]

Vote with your feet.

 

[CA1900]

Vote with your feet.

I do. Whenever possible, I'll trade in my AA tickets home and buy one on Alaska or Southwest.

 

[imacdog]

...another ditto

......coming from another person who can't read.

 

[B727FA]

The real problem is the flight attendant position was never meant to be a full time career, just a temporary job like being a waiter. Unfortunately the politically correct types demanded an end to weight/age/fitness/etc. requirements and so forth, and now I wish all those soft boiled legal brains the bad service they deserve on which ever particular flight they happen to embark.

Again...WHO CARES what the job "used" to be? Again, WHY do YOU care? Why do pilots INSIST on pointing that out all the freakin' time? What's your point? It doesn't matter what it USED to be...it's what it is NOW.

Sociologically speaking MOST early "careers" for women were intended to be "temporary" until they "found a man" and dropped out of the labor pool. Even women who were nurses, teachers, secretaries have transitioned their jobs into careers; so why not FA's, too? (There are some pretty heavy/old/out of shape/etc nurses, teachers, secretaries...and dare I say pilots!?!?!?) Move on...

It's not a problem that FA's are making a career out of it. The REAL problem is that people who have no reason to judge WHY a person CHOOSES to be an FA (for life) shoots off their uninformed traps.

Answer the question: WHY do you care that people make a career out of being an FA?

Next.

 

[B727FA]

Do the multiplication....

Irrelevant. $ for $ you get more work out of your FA staffing than you do your pilot staffing. Careful: I'm not quantifying value of the job; that's usually what pilots do to belittle FA's. The jobs are vastly different...I get that. I'm saying you get more workers for the money...there's a difference.

 

[B727FA]

It's a job that can be done with a GED and a weeks worth of training. They are basically qualified to be a "Merry Maid" outside of AA.

I've got to hand it too them.
Just dem facts'

Is your GED working for you?

I'll put my BA, MDiv and MA up against your education any day pal. It may only REQUIRE a HS degree but many carriers are requiring much more...and you know that. Don't be thick.

Why do I do this job with so much education? I WANT to. You shouldn't care.

 

[B727FA]

why do they need GEDs? That seems like overkill for a job that involves opening cans of soda. . .

Tell you what Raoul, when you drive one in I'll leave you get yourself out. And no, I won't open a can of soda to pour on the fire that's on your a$$.

 

[B727FA]

Notice also that my problem is with certain members of that group who provide documented crappy service, yet have been paid near the top of the industry for over a decade.

Agreed.

Note that I also stated pure fact regarding skills and qualifications and that I have total respect for Merry Maids and many other entry level jobs,

But apparently not career FA's. Qualifications aren't skills.

If you're making a point of the minimum qualifications, your point is true. But it is simply NOT true that MOST people who possess the minimum qualifications for a job have the skills to do the job.

Think of it this way: a pilot is required to have their tickets and a Class A --(and contrary to popular belief, a 4 year degree is NOT required to "be" a pilot...You don't even "need" a GED; I dare say lots of us got our private ticket before we graduated from HS.) They may possess the minimum qualifications; but they likely, with "just" that, don't have the skills required to be successful in their career. Same thing for FA's.

If we're going to take this to the level of QUALIFICATIONS/SKILLS then company REQUIREMENTS has to be worked into the mix, too.

Fair enough?

And again...WHY do pilots care so much about why FA's choose this as a career? SOMEONE, please answer the question.