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Flight Attendant - Flight Attendant Delta Air Lines Employee Review

2.0
8 Apr 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Stand by travel, getting off work and going for a walk in a different city, you can work unlimited hours.

Cons

Seniority drives everything, so you are either senior enough to hold a good trip or you have to sit on the computer swapping trips for literally days before you can get a decent trip. Delta designs a lot of the domestic trips to be 12 or 13 hour duty days, with 3 and 4 hour sits between each leg, allowing themselves free airport standby employees who are basically unpaid but required to be there. Stand by travel is not a good idea if you really have plans that you have committed to, I usually ended up buying tickets to make sure I got somewhere in time or if I had reservations made, so no money savings there. Lowest pay in airline industry if you adjust for duty day period required per trip, and not just count flight hours. Some days are blocked so you cannot swap off of those days to improve your schedule, yet there is no added incentive pay to make it worth your wile to work the shift. Airplanes have all been reconfigured so that there are additional passenger seats, but no where for flight attendants to sit or eat a meal in privacy for a few minutes. Ergonomically horrible work conditions and equipment. If you have a family or even one friend that you like to see regularly, this job is not for you. If you dont mind endless chit chat with stranger after stranger, you might enjoy this lifestyle.

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5.0
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Awesome company to work for! Fun work environment, cares about employees, great uniforms, competitive pay, just an awesome company to work for! They are very flexible, you can live anywhere in the world you want, as long as your able to get to work when you need to be there!

Cons

At the end of the day, it is a very large corporation. So it is very easy to become just a "number" in the company. The flight attendant group is not unionized, so rules can change very often. Make sure your time management is impeccable, because you cannot be late for work AT ALL, and there aren't many acceptable excuses, even rain is not an excuse.

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Delta Air Lines Response
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Thank you for your review and recommendation of Delta. We work hard every day to make Delta a great place to work; it’s nice to hear how much you enjoy our company and our work environment. Our people and our culture are our most important competitive advantages and the direct relationship we have enjoyed with our flight attendants has served our people, our customers and our company very well. To that end, we have a strong open door policy that enables any employee to go directly to a leader with any concerns, and we have hundreds of flight attendants who are actively engaged in our business, providing feedback and working on solutions for their colleagues and our customers. At Delta, a consistent, reliable operation is one of the reasons our top customers come back to fly with us time and again. That makes employee reliability – being on time, every day, for your shift or your flight – especially important. We agree that having a fundamental understanding of the flight attendant role is important for our field leaders, and we also value diversity at all levels of the company. That’s why so many of our field leaders are flight attendant qualified and many still fly when their schedules allow. We appreciate your feedback and will be sharing it with our In-Flight team. –Wendy, Talent Acquisition Team
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