SURVIVING A SHRINKING INDUSTRY: Workers build new lives away from airlines

[RJP]

It's not about pilots but a sad reality nonetheless.

http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2006606260383&template=printart

 

[Gorilla]

Quote:

Amy Schumaker hopes for similar success.
Three weeks ago she left her home in Dearborn and her job as a flight attendant at Mesaba Airlines to look for new work. Now she lives in Rochester, N.Y.
Schumaker, 43, got a job with Mesaba in 1998, four days after she applied during an open house.

"For once I felt so comfortable in my skin around so many people," she said.


OK, this last sentence is really weird. What is she saying? One option - Mesaba requires all FA candidates to interview naked.

 

[pilotyip]

The article also said management was leaving the industry.

 

[Petrov]

The article also said management was leaving the industry.

Then there is hope!

 

[pilotyip]

Yes Petrov, but who will replace them, it could be out of the frying pan into the fire.

 

[Petrov]

Erm eh... I didnt think of that.