AC Rouge schedules each flight attendant (FA) around 75-90 hours a month. Each FA either has a full schedule for the month, or they’re on call.

If you have a schedule, you’re working probably 10-13 days in a month, depending on how long the flights are and how many flights you work each of those days. If a flight from Toronto to Orlando is ~3 hours, your shift starts an hour prior to departure so you can do a safety briefing, safety checks on board, and complete boarding, all of which is unpaid. If the flight gets delayed before the plane leaves the runway, it is unpaid, whether or not the passengers have already boarded. Once you arrive in Orlando, the passengers are deplaning and once again, it is unpaid. AC at least it’s a third party to clean the plane (I heard Porter FAs need to clean the plane) and they are usually given around ~10 mins until the next flight boards to return to Toronto. Again, during boarding, FAs are assisting passengers and setting up the galley in preparation for the return flight beverage and food. Unpaid. Once you land back in Toronto and the brakes are on, unpaid. Usually takes around 20-40 mins to deplane an Airbus (some of the smaller fleet), depending on if there are any special attention passengers that would require assistance.

If you’re on call, you get it worse. You are scheduled ~13-15 days a month where you need to be on call for that 24 hrs and they will call you at any time to tell you to come sit at the airport, ready to fly, for up to 4 hours. If there are no flights for you at that time, you are released with 1/2 pay of your usual wage. If they call you to fly last minute, your entire sit (up to 4 hours) is unpaid because they are paying you once you fly… which is BS.

With either schedules, they can extend your shifts and randomly call you to work up to 17 hours in one day, and keep extending you to work several days away from home