As far as my waitress comment, I don’t know many waiters that make minimum wage. Through the crazy tip culture in the US most I know are banking.

As far as “flight safety professionals” go, you know I agree with you. Nothing drives me crazy more than an FA that complains nonstop as well. C’mon, you know how pro-customer I am. My only point is that it’s not a totally easy job.

“Most flight attendants make less than waitresses.” that’s simply not true, i don’t see how FA could make less than minium wage.

“waitresses don’t have to be stuck in a metal tube for seven hours when there’s a delay and deal with 300 pissed off people.” I suppose being stuck in a brick box for eight hours with a restaunt full of pissed off people is so much better.

“They don’t have to wake up at 3AM to make it to work and then work a 14 hour day, only to work a redeye the next night which totally throws their schedule off” Clearly you haven’t seen the work schedule of an understaffed weekend, and i’m pretty sure that’s illeagal for FAs, but it certainly happens for waitresses.

There are plenty of hard jobs out there, with lousy pay and long hours, i don’t disput the fact that being an FA is hard. And like you i do appriciate it when they do their job correctly.

I do have a problem, however, with the fact that so many of them are trying to make their jobs sound more important by refering to themselves as “safety professionals”, and trying to seperate themselves from another group that dose pretty much the exact same job as them, just in a different setting. How is this different from garbageman trying to call themselves sanitation engineers.

As far as skywaitresses go, first of all, they’re definitely not overpaid. Most flight attendants make less than waitresses. As far as the challenges of the job, waitresses don’t have to be stuck in a metal tube for seven hours when there’s a delay and deal with 300 pissed off people. They don’t have to wake up at 3AM to make it to work and then work a 14 hour day, only to work a redeye the next night which totally throws their schedule off. It’s not an easy job, in my opinion.

We certainly don’t expect 50 or 60 year olds serving us at restraunts, why do we have to deal with grandmothers on planes.

How is that a good job on the flight crew’s part? Why did you thank them for being lazy and not doing their job?

@ theflyingpinto — Hehe. I know what flight attendants would love to say sometimes (hint: Not “Hmm sir, I don’t know, that bag might not fit), so sometimes I just say it for them.