Posted on 12/03/2022 9:01:33 AM PST by DFG
American Airlines is closing its San Francisco base, potentially displacing 400 flight attendants.
Two-thirds have worked for the airline for 13 years or more, according to union calculations.
10 flight attendants told Insider a myriad of factors make it difficult to leave the Bay Area.
The mass email hit some flight attendants' inboxes mid-flight.
"Today it's with great regret that I let you know about our decision to close the SFO flight attendant base," American Airlines executive Brady Byrnes said in the September memo obtained by Insider.
In closing its San Francisco base, citing economic factors and shifting customer demand, American presented 400 flight attendants with a choice that many said felt impossible to make: leave the airline or leave the state.
The base is home to some of the carrier's most senior flight attendants, two-thirds of whom have been at the airline for 13 years or more, according to the union representing American Airlines flight attendants. By January 31, they must select an airport from a list of the airline's hubs outside of California to work out of. For those who can't or won't, the only options are to retire early (if eligible) or resign, the union told Insider.
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Fly on any nearly any foreign airlines, especially asian or even middle eastern airlines especially in business class...it is like the glory days in the 60s again
Trannies will do.
IcelandAir was a cool flight. I had all three seats.
Hot blonde gave me two blankets...
I would like to visit Thailand at some point.
They should consider it a blessing.
Could it be the airlines are realizing an increasing need for health care personnel on flights due to the Died Suddenly phenomena taking place?
Things that make you go hmmmm?
Exactly. A good friend here in far North Idaho lost his wife a couple years ago. She was a 35 year attendant for United and commuted from here to LA for work. They kept their place in Redondo Beach when they moved to Idaho 20 years ago, so she had a place to stay there but she always headed back to Idaho every chance she got.
When you are in the industry, your sense of distance and time really change as well as the possibilities that brings.
Except Cebu Pacific is a Philippine airline - they speak perfect English and are happy to have you. :)
But even the Chinese airlines’ flight attendants are ten times nicer to foreign travelers than the typical angry United employee.
Now it looks like a barnyard explosion mixed with some light in the loafers sidekicks...if you fly domestic airlines (and British). Fly Middle Eastern or Asian airlines........let’s just say the stewardesses represent their countries well.
Call me sexist, but I prefer beautiful women to gay men bringing me a drink and not peanuts…
I’ve said it before, I need a DeLorean with a flux capacitor…
Barnyard explosion...LOL
United Air Lines, where else?
That’s what I’m talking about.
Just good, wholesome ladies.
(All born XX)
NO ONE wants to go to a lib ran, rat/feces/homeless/homo-depravity infested city.
Even Stevie Wonder saw this.
Did she have to be ‘vax’d to get the job?
” and asking 400 flight attendants to leave California or...”
No one had to ask me to leave California (decades ago).
AA just doesn’t want to pay California Taxes anymore. Not sure that is going to work for them
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