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Originally Posted by PaperBagger'14
I am friends with a high up at an airline (not AC) and his explanation was sort of interesting. I guess decades ago it was an industry standard practice to only pay for the “flight time” for simplicity of tracking hours. The extra work performed was compensated to FAs by having a higher/inflated hourly pay. This was standard practice and deemed acceptable by the union for a very long time.
After looking at the FA’s pay schedule they are compensated quite well given there is no post secondary education and only on the job training required. The job does require sacrifices, spending many nights away from home. But $30-$63 an hour is nothing to scoff at.
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I agree with the wage being very good if you got paid for 144-160 hours a month. But the point is “ full time” is 80 hours a month with 35 hrs a month of unpaid duty’s. And because of how crew schedules work especially for the more hr. People you don’t have planned flying and can’t hold times off so finding a part time job that can be flexible to that schedule is very difficult.
Also something at was noted that Toronto Montreal Vancouver are the main hubs and very expensive places to live. So you can live outside of those areas but that is just adding commuting time.