Job Title: Flight Attendant
Location: Chicago, IL
Submitted on: 19-Feb-03
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The Flight attendant salary was scaled differently than a regular full time job.
United airlines paid 19.50 a flight hour to start then capped out at $50.00 a
flight hour at fourteen years of seniority. An example of how pay would go is as
follows: A two day trip to Los Angeles from New York is a two day trip, and 11
1/2 hours of flight time for the whole two days. You would check in 1 hour and a
half before the flight, board the plane thirty minutes prior to take off, take
off, land, go to the hotel, then get on the van 2 hours before take-off, go on
the aircraft, board the plane and go home. For the 11 1/2 hours you are on the
plane, you get paid flight time, 19.50. You are paid $2 per diem per every hour
you are at work. That is what you get paid for all the time you are at work, but
not in the air or on the taxi way. There are other variations as well, including
"holding time", when the aircraft door is not shut but passengers are on board,
and "ground pay" for when you are waiting for a connecting flight and you have a
layover in the airport. The average amount of flight time a flight attendant
works in a month is about 80 hours. The Union has caps on how many hours can be
worked, judged on a quarterly system.
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