Pros
Meet a lot of people from everywhere.
Cons
Pay and pay structure are awful ~ your work day can be stretched to upwards of 15 hours or longer while only being paid your hourly rate for the 5 hours of flying that day. Huge time investment, good bye holidays, birthdays , weddings. Everything is seniority driven which makes for lazy senior coworkers that are older than your grandparents and paid twice as much. (As a crew member under 10 years) No union - no back up against corporate greed. Travel perks all but gone with flights being booked to capacity all year makes standby travel irrelivant. If you can find the time off to even attempt to travel. Brainwash you in training saying delta family and also scare you senseless that if you fight them on anything.. don’t follow the plan..support union you’ll lose your job. The day to day is exhausting with little reward as a 1-20 year flight attendant you can look forward to 9-14 hour days that your paid less then half for. Gone for days at a time with minimum legal rest as low as 8 hours behind a hotel door before another 12 hour day. 3 call outs a year for any reason sick/car breaks down/ pink eye/ food poisoning/ snow before you get disciplinary action. ( all mean while seeing upwards of 400 passengers a day serving and picking up cups, tissues, and trash.)
