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Not to mention, a fairly active flight attendant will make a few thousand more dollars a year which can have a nice impact on their lives. I think we can all afford to pay flight attendants an extra $5-10 per flight as this would come out to and by going to minimum wage for these hours, it will solve for the optics of a wage that feels “illegal” at $2/hr. Also, by enforcing the minimum wage laws, this will theoretically avoid a union contract negotiation and they will simply “upgrade” these hours to the minimum wage hourly rate (as enforced by the law). It also makes hourly pay not incentivize time on the ground. It’s a modest wage increase that will not affect pricing of tickets very much when split over x number of seats. However, I would propose the national minimum wage applying towards boarding/deplaning ($7.25) and keeping their current union wages for actual flight time. So if the solution is lowering the overall rate of pay and counting boarding/deplaning, I’m for it, even if the net pay is the same. But reporting pay of $2/hr and $28/hr while on board, is not going to fly (pun intended). Whether that pay is baked into the “flight time” hourly rate is indisputable, it is. We have a minimum wage law in the United States and no one should be making $2/hr.

It’s a fair point that this issue lies within negotiations but they clearly need to restructure the way pay is reported.

That can be your take, but wishing for higher real wages without a concomitant increase in productivity isn’t in the cards and union leaders themselves understand this even if they don’t articulate it honestly to rank-and-file (since that message wouldn’t help them get re-elected). Now, it’s simple to say “we want flight attendants to be paid more” and any explanation like this to sound callous. If flight attendants truly valued higher total wages they would wind up accomplishing this by giving up quality of life elements of their contract. There’s a total cost of a contract, and it’s parceled out across wages, benefits, per diem, hotel accommodation and ground transportation details, work rules and other bargained-for elements. And airlines aren’t just going to pay flight attendants more money by changing the calculation, the cost of flight attendants is really what union contracts are bargaining over and unions aren’t just leaving money on the table. It would be possible to change how pay is calculated, pay a lower rate over more time, but that’s not clearly better for flight attendants. The amount of work time multiplied by their hourly rate is calculated on flight time, but the hourly rate is higher than it otherwise would be. The notion that “flight attendants aren’t paid for boarding time” (or aren’t paid at their normal rate) is technically true, but mostly misleading. Flight attendants are paid based on the scheduled time of the flight, at a rate that is meant to incorporate these averages. When a flight is delayed, and the airline boards more quickly, should a flight attendant be paid less money because boarding took less time? What if they were on the aircraft the same time (‘at work’)?īoarding and deplaning takes a certain amount of time on average.Do flight attendants want to clock in and clock out of each flight to the minute, separate from checking in to work the flight?.

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They’re paid an amount meant to cover their full work, they aren’t ‘working for free’ since they are paid for each trip.

I think, though, that the petition rests on a fairly fundamental misunderstanding of how mostly-union contracts are bargained on behalf of flight attendants, Lucky at One Mile at a Time says this is “reasonable” but something to be addressed through collective bargaining not a petition to the President. This gets a lot of attention because boarding can be one of the most stressful and hard-working times during a flight compared to playing Candy Crush in the galley once airborne. Regardless, many flight attendants argue they’re ‘forced to work for free’ during boarding and a petition with over 100,000 signatures addressed to the United States seeks to change this. The details vary by airline, whether there’s a fixed payment for time spent boarding and deplaning and a higher time-dependent wages for flights, or whether there’s no separate consideration for boarding time and only pay for actual flight time. There’s a big debate going on about whether flight attendants are fairly paid, based on the idea that they are generally paid only for the time flying and not for the time spent boarding an aircraft.