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I hate unions. But the stewardesses get crapped on. Always have been. I'm always polite to my stewardesses and never had a negative experience. If you are polite to them, they are exceedingly polite to you. But so many fellow passengers are jerks and treat them horribly. Their pay is also horrible. Pilots average $130K in annual salary. Stewardesses make almost 1/10th of that. Yes, pilots job is more skilled but pretty much these days, the planes fly themselves. However, when somebody throws up in first class because they drank too much champagne, guess who is cleaning that mess up?

Listen, I hate unions and I hope they don't unionize over at JetBlue, which is basically a cool airline, but they should pay these stewardesses a little better.

Over 30 years ago, I made $17 an hour as a ramp agent for an airline, I was the guy you saw who drove up to the airplane after it landed to empty the lavs, unload the baggage, pump in fresh water and all that other ramp agent stuff. That was $35K a year but that was over 30 years ago!

All I'm saying is...pay those damn stewardesses more. And keep those infernal unions out.

Flight attendants making only 1/10 of $130K ??

I think your numbers are out of date (though I don’t disagree with your overall point).

This site (link below) says that US flight attendants average $39K with a range from $23K - $82K. The major airlines seem to pay more like $50K+ but if someone works for one of the regional or budget airlines the salaries will be lower.

https://www.payscale.com/research/US/Job=Flight_Attendant/Salary