9 members · 7 posts · Cabin crew
Flight attendants, airline and corporate. Reserve life, safety training, difficult passengers, and the parts of this job that nobody outside it believes are part of the job.
No passenger identifying details and no airline bashing by name. Flight deck welcome, and expected to read more than they post.
Shayla Boone (pinned)
Cabin crew first, everybody else second. Airline and corporate both, even though the two jobs barely resemble each other past the safety card. Pilots, you are welcome. Read twice as much as you post and it will go great.
Shayla Boone
Seniority finally holds the line I want, after eleven years. Posting the real number here because new hires get told it varies and that helps nobody. Ask your base, ask people who fly what you want to fly, and get an actual figure before you plan a life around it.
Yara Haddad
For anyone considering the move from airline to corporate cabin. The pay is better, the schedule is worse in a different way, and you will do things that are not in any job description, like sourcing a car seat in Knoxville. If you need a manual to point at, stay where you are. I mean that kindly.
Brianna Castellanos
Flight nurse, not cabin crew, so tell me to leave if this is the wrong room. We do the same job in different clothes: strapped-in medicine in a moving aircraft, alone, with the nearest help an hour away. I have learned more from reading this group about single-crew decision making than from any course.
Yara Haddad
Corporate question for the airline side. How do you keep the safety brief from going stale after the ten thousandth time? I do maybe six a week to the same four people and I can hear myself going flat.
Shayla Boone
Had to do an emergency descent brief for real in March. Nothing dramatic, pressurisation issue, masks came down, everybody fine. What I noticed afterwards was that my hands did the whole thing while my brain was still catching up. Recurrent training is not a box to tick. It is the thing that flies you when you are not available.
Devon Pierce
Charter captain here, no cabin crew on most of my trips, so I do the brief and the coffee and the bags. Reading this group has made me noticeably better at the brief. That is all, just wanted to say it.