what is it like being a flight attendant? do teyy really have to stand for most pf the plane ride?

Question

How much do they get paid ?
what do tehy have 2 do ?

Answer 1

You cant just randomly work for any airline. The airline needs to be stationed out of the city you live in.
If you dont live in the airlines domicile, they wont hire you.
you need to have all qualifications of a bubbly person.
I am a flight attendant.
You need to be available basically all the time.
They dont make that great money, trust me I am one, And the average carrer time of a FA is 1-6 years.
You will go through about 3 interviews, and 2-3 months of training paid or unpaid. Mine was paid. 15.51 an hour. (regional airline)
with a 70 hour monthly gar.
A FA isnt a glorified waitress in the air, it is ALOT of FAA regualtions and rules you must know and have down by memory.
You must know how to save the lives of hundreds of people is need be.
Good Luck.

Dont apply online, get the application from the headquarters located close to the airport. The address will be online
Again YOU MUST LIVE IN THE CITY OF THE AIRLINES HUB!
For example, I live in Milwaukee, Midwest Airlines is based out of milwaukee. I work for Midwest Airlines


You only stand when passengers need something, or when you are serving them, which yes is for the most part.


I am a flight attendant for a small regional airline.
This is our pay

15.51 a flight hour (only while in flight)

on overnights or when we are signed in, but not flying, i get 1.27 an hour.

Pay is Bi-monthly

Its is approx, 1300 a month, but all airlines are different.

I rather work for a small regional airline, (because it isnt such a terrorist target)

Training is unbelievably difficult, harder than college for sure! You must know EVERYTHING. And I had 3 years prior experience as a GSC gate agent!




Hope this helps, good luck

Answer 2

To add onto the great answer by Natalie Rose (above):

Flights attendants do not stand for the entire flight. At all emergency exit doors on the plane, during departure (take off) and descent / landing, one crew member will be seated next to each emergency exit door with a seat that usually folds up/down. One flight attendant will be seated at the front of the aircraft near the galley/cockpit. This is incase of an emergency during the departure and landing, so the crew can be ready to open emergency exit doors or controll a passenger if it was needed.

The rest of the crew (if it's a large aircraft with more than 5 crew members) will be seated at the back of the aircraft in seats for Crew Members only, or seats in the galley.

During flight a flight attendant's job is to serve the passengers food and drinks, help passengers getting there carry on luggage from the overhead bins, answering any questions or comments a passenger has, and overall tending to the passenger's needs during a flight. But there main purpose is for the safety of passengers in the event of an emergency, and in this day and age to stop any passenger attempting to hurt other passengers or any passenger attempting to get into a crew only area (cockpit or galley).

Pay varies between airlines. All flight attendants are paid above minium wage for flights hours. On the ground (not in flight) pay is usually $1 - $3 depending on the airline and were the flight attendant is stationed.

My sister works for a major U.S. international airline and she gets paid a decent amount of money, although not great. She does international flights but that takes a while to get to that point (if working with an international carrier). My sister has been with her current airline for over 4 years now and just started international routes this year.

As Natalie Rose (the previous answerer) stated, flight attendants go through a lot of training and usually have a refresher course evey 6 months (sometimes more or less, depends on the airline). Training includes a course on airline safety, FAA regulations, how to spot suspicious passengers, what to do in an emergency, how to operate basic stuff on the plane that crew use, and they always have a practice emergency exit on an example plane in the airlines traning center.

Major international airlines have extensive traning. Domestic airlines (Air Tran, JetBlue, Southwest, ect) have traning but not as extensive. Although pay is usually lower on domestic airlines.

Hope this helps :-)