Pros
Schedule flexibility, profit sharing, seeing different parts of the US and world, travel benefits
Cons
No formal sick policy for flight attendants. You get up to 4 “occurrences” in a rolling year. Those 4 can be for a sick call out for you or dependent(s), late to work/trip sign in. Essentially any reason you can’t report to work, it will count as an occurrence. After 4, it turns into corrective action. Some managers are great and will treat each call out or tardiness on a case by case basis. Others will throw the rule book at you and not be so understanding. This discretionary approach is great when you have a great manager. A bad manager, and it will go the opposite way. So who your manager is and your relationship to them, is key. If you get unlucky and are sick a few times a year, not to mention any children that are sick and need to stay home, you’ll very quickly fall into corrective action, or what they call, “reliability issue”. I get it, it’s an airline where running an on time operation requires employees to show up at the right time, right place. But grouping sick call outs with late/tardiness into one corrective/reliability pool, is not right.