Articles tagged “flight attendants”

AA is the first US airline to give all flight attendants a tablet, but it will need more than tablets to improve its recent reputation for flight cancellations and unfavorable labor decisions.

The contracts have been rewritten and negotiated for over four months, so this final court approval marks the next stage for American as it begins to implement the new contract terms.

With contract negotiations finally behind them, over 900 flight attendants are leaving American's merger drama behind and walking away without having to be laid off.

You can expect further disruption, with the strike spreading to other airports, if Lufthansa doesn't get its labor situation straightened out.

Amidst contract negotiations, restructuring, and flight attendants' new retirement option, American is dealing with many moving parts and wants to make sure that, at the very least, its flights will run fully staffed -- even if that means turning the clock back a decade.

While most Americans look like they’re headed to the gym instead of an airport, flight attendants are required to look polished and have had to find trendy shoes that let you sprint to a closing gate too.

Frequent fliers may happily breeze through airports' new self-tagging baggage systems and self-boarding gates, but airline employees are worried where they'll end up after the cost-cutting technology become commonplace.

This event for really, really frequent fliers serves as a reminder of how passionate people are about flying and airlines when they're treated just a little better than we've become accustomed to.