We remained onboard for nearly 3 hours, as flight attendants sheepishly offered cups of water to frustrated passengers.
For US Airways pilots, as well as flight attendants, the contracts in place were signed before the 2005 merger with America West.
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The airlines originally hired nurses to serve as flight attendants, but by the postwar era, trained health-care workers were long gone and the airlines were looking for attractive, unmarried young women whose main duty would be to serve drinks and meals.
And Delta Air Lines CEO Richard Anderson said Friday that he shares the same "legitimate concerns" as his flight attendants.
The flight crew and 60 passengers were killed due to impact forces and fire, but 19 of the passengers survived, as well as both flight attendants.
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Aviation insurers as well as unions representing flight attendants, pilots and federal air marshals have also publically opposed the plan.
For example, when an airline trained flight attendants to see unruly passengers as frightened children, the attendants responded with greater empathy.
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He said that 100 percent of the people declared as heroes on September 11 were union members, such as the pilots, the flight attendants, and the firefighters.
We place a high value on customer interaction, so as a standard practice we have flight attendants walking through the cabin every 20 or 30 minutes offering water to every customer.
Flight attendants and pilots are expected to be furloughed as well.
Flight attendants generally enjoy company and getting to know their passengers, as long as they are not in the midst of food preparation, cleaning up or configuring the cabin for sleeping or waking.
According to industry estimates, a nearly full 757, operating with fewer flight attendants, can be more profitable than a larger plane such as the Boeing 767 carrying the same number of passengers but more attendants.
Flight attendants should let you know when electronic devices are safe to use as you wait.
At Virgin America, a handful of flight attendants recently traded places with colleagues at Virgin Blue (now Virgin Australia) as part of a one-year exchange.
Girls in the postwar era had grown up reading books such as Julie with Wings, in which beautiful and spunky young women beat out the massive competition to become flight attendants.
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