Reply #263: No--it's a fact, apparently--one that YOU offered up.

[MADem]

Flying on Pa's pass back in the day doesn't make you a pilot. Or a gate agent. Or a FA.

You might want to talk to some of these people -- 99 percenters, all of them, even the pilots these days--to get a sense of how stressful their jobs are. Don't rely on ancient history--that doesn't play in today's airline environment. They aren't having the times of their lives, raking in great salaries. They're just doing the best they can and trying to keep it all together, while enforcing rules NOT of their making, but mandated by the people who pay them and demand pay cuts and concessions from them every other year.

The ire here is, as happens with alarming frequency, misdirected at "evil" workers when the fact of the matter is that customers simply do not want to pay MORE. They would prefer to pay LESS. Something's gotta give when that's the case. That's why, if you want a sandwich on a flight in many cases, it'll cost you five or six bucks, and have your credit card ready. Same deal with headphones--unless you brought your own. That's not the fault of the FA, it's factored into the ticket price.