Age old questions,” Who am I, and why am I here?” In today’s world of Airline mergers, many a Flight Attendant is asking those questions.

Northwest Airlines and Delta Airlines are in the process of merging into one Airline. This merger will create the largest airline in the world. Does that statement sound good to you?

Because of this merger as well as the most recent merger of US Airways and America West Airlines, seats and jobs will disappear.

Available seats will be reduced due to the reduction in competing flights. Jobs will be axed due to duplication of services each airline has with each other. We will see layoffs, buyouts, and hiring freezes, all as part of the mixture of this Airline cake mix.

In addition, the issues of seniority will occur. Flight Attendants and Pilots will be scurrying to keep their most important asset, their seniority. Employees will point their fingers at all of the problems ahead, and there will be squabbles between the two work groups.

Management will sing to the public, to their employees, and to Congress how much sense the merger makes. The only sense in it will be the cents and dollars that line Senior Management’s pockets.

Meanwhile, management will begin the process of buyouts, golden parachutes and awarding each other stock that is near useless but will grow large, in time. The recipients of these generous offers will be of course……………..  Senior Management.

One CEO will stay the other hangs around until he collects. Unions will fight with each other, and while all of this is happening, the New Delta Airlines will see short profits. These profits will be distributed, of course to the new Senior Management team.

Employee contracts will be split. There will be two sets of pay scales, two sets of work rules, with very little hope of a positive restructure into one contract. Yet, during this period of time the New Delta Airlines Marketing Department will be assuring the public, and it’s customers that everything is dandy.

These are the moments that we don’t see in Flight Attendant School. When we are in Flight Attendant School, we are in a cocoon; it’s like living in Scandinavia.

When we pick the profession of a Flight Attendant Career, we pick this profession for all of the right reasons.

Smell the coffee before you take a professional sip. If you have the pallet for mixed greens, choosing a Flight Attendant Career is like riding a roller coaster.

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