If we were tipped it would just give Mgmt. another thing to hold against us come contract negotiations. "Well we feel its fine to lower your hourly rate because with your tips factored in, you will still make more money than you previously did".

Its never gonna happen for the 121 world. Tips in the 135/91 world occur because Crew's pay alot more attention to detail due to the small amount of pax they carry i.e.. addressing them by their names....loading/unloading their bags...serving their meals.

Another reason is due to the majority of their passengers being upper class. I used to work corporate....most of our passengers would tip everyone they ran into on the way to the airplane. Hell, ill bet even the GM Exec's would throw a couple hundred to their Gulfstream pilots for a "Nice Dinner"