Green Needles

From 24-44 per hour on a 30 year scale, so not much more than poverty level to start.

cantankerous

I'm guilty of this. I usually don't get cash before the trip and have to at the hotel. $1 a bag if they handle them every time.

BusBoi

At regionals and lower years ULCC it's not grand. At the legacies it's pretty decent and you can break $100k at top of scale (13 years).

preflight

Sometimes I don't have singles, sometimes the service is crap or they won't load the bags (so I give myself the tip)...I try to ask if they can change a 5 (sometimes I only have a 20). There are a ton of reasons people do not tip, but my experience is that most folks do.

13pro

The tipping culture in our country is insane. Nowhere else in the world do workers expect tips for a job they are already being paid for. Tipping because it is expected is ridiculous.

that said, I will generally tip as long as driver is kind, courteous, and actually does something with my bags other than watch me put them in the van myself. Also, if they aren’t there when the hotel said they should be… nope. Everyone can access flightaware and see when flights are due in. If an already nearly min rest overnight gets shorter because of a slow van, definitely not getting a tip.

TransWorld

My experience in Mexico is the wait staff at the restaurants and the drivers at the hotels taking the bag to the room all expect and get tips.

JohnBurke

It's 2023.

It's embarrassing seeing uniformed crew members who either don't tip, or who actually hand over a measily, stingy, paltry one dollar bill.

It's embarrassing when uniformed crew members ask the van driver for change. "Here, I have this, but I only want to give you a little. Can you make change so I can give you the least possible? Can you break a five so I can give you a one?"

Grow up. Tip the damn driver.

Throw a hundred in fives in your bag and you'll always have a five to slip the driver. Go to Harbor Freight, buy a cheap screwdriver, and pry that wallet open. It may be painful, you'll live.

JulesWinfield

Lots of places don’t even take cash. I’ll tip if I have it. If I don’t, I’ll grab my bags myself. Van drivers get paid a full wage.

13pro

Mexico is different. They expect it because they know the Americans are used to tipping. I was in Europe recently and no one tips. They just actually get paid by their employer for the job the do.

DryClutch

Oh come on now. So if I end up at the end of the van ride via a crazy re-routed day, with a single $20 in my wallet i'm supposed to tip them $20? Get real. Your absolutely right i'm going to ask them for change for my $20. $20 worth of service was not provided. This isn't a high end steak house. It's a van ride to the Hilton.

I suppose just mostly out of tradition at this point, I tip the van driver every time I have cash in my wallet, which is usually always. If for whatever reason I end up at the curb cashless, which does happen, i'll hit up my partner for a few singles. But to expect a person to precisely pre-arrange before a trip, or during their 4 leg day, to allocate just the perfect amount of tipping money is ridiculous. I could literally care less if my fellow crew members tip the driver. I do it, but that's just me. I don't even really want to but I do. And your suggestion of putting five hundred in fives in your bag, you don't possibly think that's a good idea. Sheesh.