Service, Hours and Aircraft type .....................................................................
Years with current employer
Two-thirds of respondents worked as a flight attendant for their current employer for more than 10 years and 36% worked for the same employer 20 or more years. Forty-one percent had 20 more years of experience as a flight attendant counting previous employers (not shown below). The participant characteristics mirrored the experience profile of the entire crew workforce in the target airline hubs.
Hours Worked in Past Month By Airlines
We asked about the number of hours worked in the past month as a surrogate for “usual” work schedules. The graph below shows the response for each airline. Airline A had more varied work schedules than Airline B with more part-time flight attendants.
AIRCRAFT TYPE
The aircraft types that the flight attendants and both airlines reported working on in the last 12 months included the following:
A319
A320
B737
B747
B757
B767
B777
MD80
