Just got confirmation about hours for mainline.
There is a minimum guaranteed hours a month on reserve of 75 hours a month. ( you are on call maybe at the airport maybe at home waiting for a call)
A block of flying is built between 76-80 hours
Volunteer extension can be taken up to 100 hours. As a jr FA you are never going to see these hours because there isn’t that kind of VE available and it is awarded based on seniority among other factors.
So if my math works of 36.66 *75*12 =$32,994 a year for a flight attendant of 5 years for 2024. That is the floor. At 5 years of service you are probably getting a block during the summer and December and on reserve the rest of the year:
At 80 on a block it’s $35,194.
At max VE every month which is never going to happen because of availability of flying would be $43,992.
As per the government of Canada website the poverty line in a metropolitan area of over 500,000 residents is $30,526.
https://www.canada.ca/en/employment-...l-ability.html
So at an 80 block you have to be in your third year of seniority to break the poverty line working full time for AC.