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Are US flight attendants older than the average US worker? I suspect not. Also, why is it mainly young people doing these jobs in other countries? Is that even
by CydeWeys 6y ago
Are US flight attendants older than the average US worker? I suspect not.
Also, why is it mainly young people doing these jobs in other countries? Is that even a good thing? Why should relatively older, but still perfectly capable, workers be excluded from this profession? Is this job simply not as well compensated in other countries, so people leave it as they grow older and seek higher salaries?
- secabeen 6y agoThere's a lot of weird setups in how the us flight attendant pay work, largely due to how the union negotiates them. FAs are paid only while the plane door is closed, so there's a huge incentive to fly long-hauls. Also, flights are allocated by seniority, so there is a pay-your-dues period of short low-paying flights done by workers with less experience, and high-pay long haul flights are full of older, more experienced FAs.