Have I missed something in the pay of flight attendants?  Are there flight attendants running around and purchasing 10 bedroom McMansions on their salary?  Are Gucci and BMW their favorite affordable brands?

I am baffled at how there can be so much resentment towards flight attendants and their pay.  If you looked at what  the annual take home pay was for a real worker bee at *any* airline, you’d wonder how the airline manages to hire people.  They make many teachers look well off.  I’m not exaggerating. 

So why is everyone so resentful of flight attendants wanting a living wage?  In particular, I’m calling out those airline enthusiasts who love to pretend that flight attendants are bred for serving them and who believe anything less than perfect service (and they, the enthusiast, define perfect) just serves up a reason why flight attendants are underpaid. 

A 25 year AA veteran flight attendant doesn’t earn what en entry level administrative assistant earns at my company. 

Regardless of who happens to lead a union and what drivel they may promote, surely we can all agree that flight attendants (and gate agents, etc) aren’t overpaid and perhaps, in light of pretty significant rise in the cost of living, could use a raise.

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