Or when they’re meeting you on the first leg at the beginning of the trip and they say “Hiii how are ya i’m jessica” I hit ‘em with the “The horrors persist, but so do I. I’m Dragosteax nice to meet u”
This is why I use self checkout. I get extreme anxiety when everything is piling up. I also hate when they scan things in a different order than I put on the belt, I try to keep categories together. When I know I have a large order and can’t use self check out I have just put things in the cart and bagged out by my car.
That anxiety is real. Especially if you’re at a smaller grocery store and the bagging area is kind of tight and in the way of the store’s exit, there’s not much space for the cart. It’s such a stressful experience for me. I recently went to the only amazon fresh store in NJ where you don’t check out in a traditional check out/self check out etc type of line… you just put stuff in your cart and your amazon account is automatically charged when you walk out of the store. It was the loveliest shopping experience i’ve ever had.
Do you know how that Amazon fresh store works? When you walk in, cameras follow you, see what you put in your cart and tally up your total. On the other side of the camera is one person watching g you the entire time…I’m not making this up. Amazon stores ARE NOT high tech.
everybody’s seen the articles about people in india watching you behind the cameras, yes.. nobody’s saying amazon fresh stores have state of the art AI technology installed or are divinity on earth. Just that it’s a much easier experience.
Possibly but that just means they will have to stop building sooooooooooo many trips where I’m obligated to be active for 13 hours a day and 6+ hours are on the ground. We want efficient use of our time and we want to be paid for ALL of it. These 2 things are covered in one swoop by having DUTY TIME PAY.
I actively get involved every time negotiations comes around, actually. I’m more concerned with dividing the pie allocated to us in correct, sensical slices. People like you who think that paying us $100/hr for sleeping in the crew room completely undermine us.It’s plain silly and that’s why the flight attendant group is always seen as the group still sitting at the children’s table.
I’m a flight attendant and made a bit more than that last year, and that was without flying high-time. I don’t need to be rich but I feel very comfortable with what I make (and have the potential to make if I flew more), especially when all I needed was a high school diploma. Dropped out of college at 21 and joined the airlines as soon as I could. Unionized, 30+ vacation days, unbelievably flexible schedule (I make my own schedule and trade my trips around as I see fit), 11% 401k match. Much more than anyone in my family’s ever had.
Jesus Christ, when I was a flight attendant I used to hear "What route do you fly?" or "Is there like a set route that you work every week?" all the goddamn time. That, and "Oooh, can I have a buddy pass?" That's not how any of that works.
I love the buddy pass question. I BS and tell them, “My airline offers a $7k check if we forfeit our buddy passes every year” and it shuts them up every time. I love it. No more skirting around it or dealing with the hounding.
A girl next to me ripped a weed vape pen which people around her immediately noticed from the smell. The flight attendant basically said they didn't see it but if it happens again they will do something.
It'd be different if he cursed at a flight attendant or another passenger, but grunting the word "fuck" to yourself is not a sign of belligerence or aggression.
Wait so do you often fly with the same people? (I'm in training so idk how that works but I thought there were SOOOOO many FA's & flights that you really wouldn't see the same ppl often)
really depends on your base. at my airline, we have a base as big as 6,000 FA’s, while some of our smaller bases are only like 150 people. The smaller bases are definitely much more tight knit and fly together more often.
Also, seniority comes into play a lot, too. If you’re in the same seniority range, once you start holding things or even off of reserve, you will fly with the same faces often enough to remember them by name. Happens a lot, no matter the size of the base. Especially for the reserves.
To preface, economy on this plane holds 180 passengers. Economy on a 737-900 holds 159 pax. Not a number to sneeze at when it’s only staffed at 2 flight attendants. On the A321N, with a pax load of 180 in the back, the aft galley is literally half the size of the full galley on a 737, and then, both of the bathrooms are also inside of the galley. It makes for an incredibly cramped and uncomfortable situation when everyone loiters in the already cramped galley while waiting for the bathroom.
They are, unfortunately. and now around ~4k of them are being recalled because the cover on top of the accelerator is liable to detach, slip forward, and lodge itself under the bulkhead, weighing the accelerator completely pressed down. Yikes.
1:20 is relatively tight - one weather delay or mechanical and that’s enough to miss your connection, but if things go smooth, you’ll be able to get there in no time. Just look up and read the signs. There’s also an airport map in the united app… while in flight, find the gate where you’re landing in houston, then make the virtual walk to your gate for the Japan departure.
Idk why you’re getting downvoted. The people in this group forget that a world outside of USA aviation exists, or some people might be new and not as privy to all things aviation. In any case, the red triangle is an abbreviation for Delta Air Lines.
exactly. after a decade in, I consider myself pretty savvy with the aviation industry and privy to all of the little abbreviations and code words for other airlines but I certainly would be a bit lost with any overseas airline jargon, I have no exposure to be privy enough to it. In typical american fashion, the people in here forget that a world exists outside of the USA - even though they’re traveling to those places lol
Is this regional? saying “fwd/aft FA” makes it sound like only 2 flight attendants. If that’s the case, I can’t speak to what’s customary on regional flights. A fwd FA would have no business doing anything with the aft FA’s galley stuff on mainline.
Weird hive-mind on here sometimes lol. I was just genuinely curious if you were indeed referring to regional because it would be a really strange request for mainline FA’s… but, we do have some weirdos up there so I wouldn’t have been surprised either way.
I've actually started to love a lot of brutalistic architecture even though I absolutely hated it for most of my life. 'Gave me actual nightmares' type of hate.
Yes, it’s a choice we make. My point is that it isn’t something that everybody off the street is aware of, or is willing to do - even the new hires who realize the gravity of this type of schedule once they’re a month or two in and end up quitting.
Flying back in the day was a much different ballgame than today. Ask any flight attendant that’s flying today who was flying back when TWA was alive — the job is completely different. In any case, i’m not lamenting about the job. I’m fortunately senior enough to not worry about sacrificing holidays and important events - I have complete control over my schedule and can trade or drop my trips when I’d like. This isn’t the same story for the new hires that are coming in, though. This contract that we’re trying to negotiate has a lot of improvements for them.
I don’t feel like finding if anyone mentioned it, but anytime we cook fish / fry something / cook with something really smelly, we boil a white vinegar/water mixture. White vinegar removes the smell… i’ll walk around with the pot and waft the steam around the home, then open up some windows.
Also if it’s not the outlets…set out bowls of cheap, dry coffee. I’m talking some cheapo brand right out the can. I was a flight attendant for many years and we covered up poop, puke, and tuna fish with coffee. It works.
Read the room. If you can’t tell who is and isn’t going to be an issue with alcohol, you’re exercising power without causation, hence a power trip. That’s you limiting those that can drink plenty and be just fine and being judge and jury. Sounds like you need to hang it up.
Lol what? Spoken like somebody who’s never worked with the public and alcohol. Somebody can be fine one minute and snap a couple of drinks after - the causation is being up in the air, where you get drunk quicker, and trapped inside of a metal tube… ergo, caution should be exercised, period. You aren’t privy to this and it shows.
The second bullet: my uncle isn’t elderly - early 40’s… but he’s just recently started to get into texting, social media, smartphones etc. Don’t know how he’s avoided it the last decade, but he’s pretty stunted in this realm. His life could be so much easier if he were just willing to open his eyes and learn. He had a flight at 8:30 PM last night and wanted to get to the airport at 1 PM so he “had time to check in” I walked him through the checkin process on his phone but I still don’t think it really clicked for him that he was checked in all from his phone.
It’s the biggest known perk of working for an airline - the travel benefits that are extended to the employee and their family/friends. What a weird thing to get pissy about. Does it upset you, too, when H&M employees give their folks the friends/family discount on their purchase instead of the PaYiNg cUsToMeRs???
Thank you for acknowledging them :) Definitely mention it in the survey (if you receive one) or let the company know at united.com/feedback — those compliments get placed in the FA’s employee file!
Most the time they just announce before the flight there won’t be any service. I don’t know why we even need flight attendants anymore. Complete joke when it comes to service these days.
because their primary role isn’t service, it’s safety. You can scoff all you want, but any seasoned flight attendant will have a swath of stories of how they had to spring into action in these events. 75% of the traveling public can’t manage to open the bathroom door on a plane - they definitely can’t be trusted to safely evacuate themselves in an emergency.
“Did you hear that? My mom’s calling, I gotta go.”
Or when they’re meeting you on the first leg at the beginning of the trip and they say “Hiii how are ya i’m jessica” I hit ‘em with the “The horrors persist, but so do I. I’m Dragosteax nice to meet u”
This is why I use self checkout. I get extreme anxiety when everything is piling up. I also hate when they scan things in a different order than I put on the belt, I try to keep categories together. When I know I have a large order and can’t use self check out I have just put things in the cart and bagged out by my car.
That anxiety is real. Especially if you’re at a smaller grocery store and the bagging area is kind of tight and in the way of the store’s exit, there’s not much space for the cart. It’s such a stressful experience for me. I recently went to the only amazon fresh store in NJ where you don’t check out in a traditional check out/self check out etc type of line… you just put stuff in your cart and your amazon account is automatically charged when you walk out of the store. It was the loveliest shopping experience i’ve ever had.
Do you know how that Amazon fresh store works? When you walk in, cameras follow you, see what you put in your cart and tally up your total. On the other side of the camera is one person watching g you the entire time…I’m not making this up. Amazon stores ARE NOT high tech.
everybody’s seen the articles about people in india watching you behind the cameras, yes.. nobody’s saying amazon fresh stores have state of the art AI technology installed or are divinity on earth. Just that it’s a much easier experience.
Possibly but that just means they will have to stop building sooooooooooo many trips where I’m obligated to be active for 13 hours a day and 6+ hours are on the ground. We want efficient use of our time and we want to be paid for ALL of it. These 2 things are covered in one swoop by having DUTY TIME PAY.
Yea it’s just like…you seem intent on selling yourself short…please stay clear of union positions.
I actively get involved every time negotiations comes around, actually. I’m more concerned with dividing the pie allocated to us in correct, sensical slices. People like you who think that paying us $100/hr for sleeping in the crew room completely undermine us.It’s plain silly and that’s why the flight attendant group is always seen as the group still sitting at the children’s table.
I’m a flight attendant and made a bit more than that last year, and that was without flying high-time. I don’t need to be rich but I feel very comfortable with what I make (and have the potential to make if I flew more), especially when all I needed was a high school diploma. Dropped out of college at 21 and joined the airlines as soon as I could. Unionized, 30+ vacation days, unbelievably flexible schedule (I make my own schedule and trade my trips around as I see fit), 11% 401k match. Much more than anyone in my family’s ever had.
Jesus Christ, when I was a flight attendant I used to hear "What route do you fly?" or "Is there like a set route that you work every week?" all the goddamn time. That, and "Oooh, can I have a buddy pass?" That's not how any of that works.
I love the buddy pass question. I BS and tell them, “My airline offers a $7k check if we forfeit our buddy passes every year” and it shuts them up every time. I love it. No more skirting around it or dealing with the hounding.
Haven’t seen a Continental box in a while but saw a US Airways box last week going PHL-PHX.
To add to your airline lexicon, these are called “carriers” “atlas” or “atlas carriers” never “box”
Does it keep the food warmer?
Food doesn’t go in there
A girl next to me ripped a weed vape pen which people around her immediately noticed from the smell. The flight attendant basically said they didn't see it but if it happens again they will do something.
flight attendant here. depends on the situation but cursing will totally get you kicked off of the plane while we’re on the ground.
It'd be different if he cursed at a flight attendant or another passenger, but grunting the word "fuck" to yourself is not a sign of belligerence or aggression.
read again: “depends on the situation”
Wait so do you often fly with the same people? (I'm in training so idk how that works but I thought there were SOOOOO many FA's & flights that you really wouldn't see the same ppl often)
really depends on your base. at my airline, we have a base as big as 6,000 FA’s, while some of our smaller bases are only like 150 people. The smaller bases are definitely much more tight knit and fly together more often.
Also, seniority comes into play a lot, too. If you’re in the same seniority range, once you start holding things or even off of reserve, you will fly with the same faces often enough to remember them by name. Happens a lot, no matter the size of the base. Especially for the reserves.
Very good point.
as a passenger i’d rather fly the 321N
What hazardous about the aft galley.
To preface, economy on this plane holds 180 passengers. Economy on a 737-900 holds 159 pax. Not a number to sneeze at when it’s only staffed at 2 flight attendants. On the A321N, with a pax load of 180 in the back, the aft galley is literally half the size of the full galley on a 737, and then, both of the bathrooms are also inside of the galley. It makes for an incredibly cramped and uncomfortable situation when everyone loiters in the already cramped galley while waiting for the bathroom.
There are two reasons:
The cleaners are outsourced and not UA employees - so they’re definitely not all unionized. Some stations are better than others.
I've not been very "car aware" but I've seen some posts here and there with cyber trucks.
They are, unfortunately. and now around ~4k of them are being recalled because the cover on top of the accelerator is liable to detach, slip forward, and lodge itself under the bulkhead, weighing the accelerator completely pressed down. Yikes.
1:20 is relatively tight - one weather delay or mechanical and that’s enough to miss your connection, but if things go smooth, you’ll be able to get there in no time. Just look up and read the signs. There’s also an airport map in the united app… while in flight, find the gate where you’re landing in houston, then make the virtual walk to your gate for the Japan departure.
What's the triangle mean?
Idk why you’re getting downvoted. The people in this group forget that a world outside of USA aviation exists, or some people might be new and not as privy to all things aviation. In any case, the red triangle is an abbreviation for Delta Air Lines.
Thank you for the help.
exactly. after a decade in, I consider myself pretty savvy with the aviation industry and privy to all of the little abbreviations and code words for other airlines but I certainly would be a bit lost with any overseas airline jargon, I have no exposure to be privy enough to it. In typical american fashion, the people in here forget that a world exists outside of the USA - even though they’re traveling to those places lol
Is this regional? saying “fwd/aft FA” makes it sound like only 2 flight attendants. If that’s the case, I can’t speak to what’s customary on regional flights. A fwd FA would have no business doing anything with the aft FA’s galley stuff on mainline.
Omg idk why you got downvoted either haha, I up voted you just now to make that one less downvote lmao.
Weird hive-mind on here sometimes lol. I was just genuinely curious if you were indeed referring to regional because it would be a really strange request for mainline FA’s… but, we do have some weirdos up there so I wouldn’t have been surprised either way.
I've actually started to love a lot of brutalistic architecture even though I absolutely hated it for most of my life. 'Gave me actual nightmares' type of hate.
AAAAAALEXANDERPLATZ, auf-wiedersehennnnn
I see your point. Isn’t that a choice you make? Do airlines ever say, yes you’ll be home for all the birthday parties?
Yes, it’s a choice we make. My point is that it isn’t something that everybody off the street is aware of, or is willing to do - even the new hires who realize the gravity of this type of schedule once they’re a month or two in and end up quitting.
I know two former flight attendants one for TWA. They talk about it positively. I’m sure it wasn’t easy though.
Flying back in the day was a much different ballgame than today. Ask any flight attendant that’s flying today who was flying back when TWA was alive — the job is completely different. In any case, i’m not lamenting about the job. I’m fortunately senior enough to not worry about sacrificing holidays and important events - I have complete control over my schedule and can trade or drop my trips when I’d like. This isn’t the same story for the new hires that are coming in, though. This contract that we’re trying to negotiate has a lot of improvements for them.
I don’t feel like finding if anyone mentioned it, but anytime we cook fish / fry something / cook with something really smelly, we boil a white vinegar/water mixture. White vinegar removes the smell… i’ll walk around with the pot and waft the steam around the home, then open up some windows.
Also if it’s not the outlets…set out bowls of cheap, dry coffee. I’m talking some cheapo brand right out the can. I was a flight attendant for many years and we covered up poop, puke, and tuna fish with coffee. It works.
Flight attendant here. We indeed still have coffee bags hanging from the coat hooks in the lav hahahaha
this is contingent on the airline, but for many airlines, the flight attendants don’t clean the planes. we have contracted cleaners.
Do you know how to track where the flight went after Zurich?
I’d recommend flightradar24. Plug in the flight number and date and you can track where that aircraft goes afterwards.
Read the room. If you can’t tell who is and isn’t going to be an issue with alcohol, you’re exercising power without causation, hence a power trip. That’s you limiting those that can drink plenty and be just fine and being judge and jury. Sounds like you need to hang it up.
Lol what? Spoken like somebody who’s never worked with the public and alcohol. Somebody can be fine one minute and snap a couple of drinks after - the causation is being up in the air, where you get drunk quicker, and trapped inside of a metal tube… ergo, caution should be exercised, period. You aren’t privy to this and it shows.
Yeah, if you’re a flight attendant for boost mobile airlines 😂
With one of the big 3, but crazy drunk people are on any and every airline.
Some people rarely fly and don't understand the process.
The second bullet: my uncle isn’t elderly - early 40’s… but he’s just recently started to get into texting, social media, smartphones etc. Don’t know how he’s avoided it the last decade, but he’s pretty stunted in this realm. His life could be so much easier if he were just willing to open his eyes and learn. He had a flight at 8:30 PM last night and wanted to get to the airport at 1 PM so he “had time to check in” I walked him through the checkin process on his phone but I still don’t think it really clicked for him that he was checked in all from his phone.
Why don’t they bring more stewardesses on board to do the meals then?
“stewardesses” lol… 1960 called, they want you back.
They could use it for paying customers? You know, like they already do on every domestic flight...
It’s the biggest known perk of working for an airline - the travel benefits that are extended to the employee and their family/friends. What a weird thing to get pissy about. Does it upset you, too, when H&M employees give their folks the friends/family discount on their purchase instead of the PaYiNg cUsToMeRs???
Thank you for acknowledging them :) Definitely mention it in the survey (if you receive one) or let the company know at united.com/feedback — those compliments get placed in the FA’s employee file!
Most the time they just announce before the flight there won’t be any service. I don’t know why we even need flight attendants anymore. Complete joke when it comes to service these days.
because their primary role isn’t service, it’s safety. You can scoff all you want, but any seasoned flight attendant will have a swath of stories of how they had to spring into action in these events. 75% of the traveling public can’t manage to open the bathroom door on a plane - they definitely can’t be trusted to safely evacuate themselves in an emergency.