What about throttling down for a bit at 30 when you have kids? or when one of your kids gets cancer?

I'm not advocating for the 80 year olds to be able to throttle down, it would be a win for everyone if we tied the FA mandatory retirement age to social security retirement age and bring back the enforcement of fitness requirements.

 

I don’t think the SS age thing would pass muster but they should really be required to demonstrate that they can open an over wing exit (and fit out it too). The idea that in an emergency all they need to do is tell an ABA how to do it in a plane filled with smoke flames and screaming pax borders on criminal negligence in my opinion.

 

The SS age deal may force them to start an organization called LEFF.

 

Exactly. I don’t really understand the narrative of some here of “Welp, get knocked up gotta quit like the ole days….having kids a choice”

Yet they will be the first that complain about the quality of the people they get once these types of elements from the compensation package disappear.

That workgroup cannot be based on everyone quitting prior to 5 years.

For a place like Spirit whose strategy mostly centers around exploiting the unaware consumer, and not prioritizing good customer service …you can sort of get a way with the high turnover model…….but for an airline like ours, a brand like ours……poor customer really can’t really be our identity. The FA’s spend far and away the most time of any workgroup with the customer…….thats part of what makes us different than Spirit or Frontier…….cause it sure isn’t what we do in the cockpit.

 

It won’t be an issue, until something happens and it is an issue.We have some that are so frail , they can’t push the cart down the aisle .

 

When the EVA airlines hello kitty crew takes pics with your 83 year old that was let off the airplane early but she's 200 in base.

 

A good PPO plan (assuming they don't want a high deductible plan at this point), can be anywhere from $800-$2000/mo.

That could run you $24,000 a year, no problem.

 

You mean LEAFF? Let Experienced Able-bodied FAs Fly?