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Originally Posted by Chocaholic
As someone who has been flying weekly for probably the past 20 years...I disagree with all above.
It's all about expectations. Be realistic. Any industry that moves that many people as safely and effectively as our airline industry does is ok with me.
I don't know what you guys expect. Foot massage at 30k feet by buxom flight attendant? You really quit a great job because you were too inconvenienced to fly on occasion? Wow. Just wow. Glad you don't work for me...you wouldn't like that either.
Overall, most of my flights are on time and I don't complain when I get a center seat in row 35....despite a million miles+ on Delta. If you had to put up with sh>> that flight attendants deal with, mostly from people who think they are owed the world because they bought a $300 ticket, you wouldn't be anywhere close to what I experience weekly from 99% of the airline employees I interface with.
It's a logistics nightmare and passengers are a-holes far more often than airline employees are. If you'd rather drive 9 hours than take a 2 hour flight....good! One more seat that I can get on when I arrive early to the airport and stand by for any seat I can get.
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This. I fly almost every other week if not more in some months. It's not for everybody, that's for sure and I suppose one day it might get tiring for me and I will move to a different job. The way I look at it, everybody is trying to do their job and it gets stressful. I can tell you this much, I wouldn't quit my job to go into the airline industry. It's a hard industry to work in from being a flight attendant, to pilot, to the guy figuring out what the optimum price point is. I wouldn't want to do it. So, I take my nice salary that I know is partially inflated because I do travel a lot, settle in with my nice travel pillow, put on some nice quiet music through my headphones and take a nap... Even through the hour sitting on the runway in a delay. I can't say a lot of people get paid for for taking a nap during business hours.
