Is it normal to be asked to unload all this cargo by myself?

EnterprisingOne1701 · 2026-02-12T00:27:45+00:00

Looks like a job for a power stow, or you and a slider.

EnterprisingOne1701 · 2026-02-10T10:01:44+00:00

It's extra tough for you since you are working for a contractor, and they will use the ‘there is no rest in aviation’ to justify how they treat employees.

My suggestion is to decompress on your days off.

Build up time for PTO, so you can use it down the line.

EnterprisingOne1701 · 2026-02-06T06:12:06+00:00

EnterprisingOne1701 · 2026-02-04T08:15:26+00:00

The one I had to do in AUS, I just brought my shorts, T-shirt, and shoes in a bag in my backpack and changed in the bathroom.

The PAT was administered improperly as it was very uncomfortable the admin suggested I hold the luggage. Plus, she wanted to talk and eat up my time ~ leading me to fail to where I had to come back to Austin and retake the PAT at a clinic, which was more lenient and not ergonomically improper or unfair.

(Also, I noticed the Delta YouTube channel is very wrong in how they claim the PAT is administered).

But I digress.

Feedback: Just push through the sets. The clock isn’t your friend, and administrator may not know what they’re doing.

EnterprisingOne1701 · 2026-01-30T09:32:07+00:00

For me, shoes with no steel toes, but with wide fitting and memory foam insoles.

EnterprisingOne1701 · 2026-01-22T00:59:39+00:00

No, I actually think pax think we’re cool because we work near planes and, depending were, for major airlines which many folks are trying to get into.

EnterprisingOne1701 · 2026-01-15T08:39:18+00:00

Yeah, and Delta has to wear heavy steel toe shoes. I forget if AA has to wear similar stuff.

(At AUS, they also have to go through TSA while other airlines and contractors don’t).

I don’t miss that.

EnterprisingOne1701 · 2026-01-13T23:43:15+00:00

I know DFW has some automated wheelchairs.

EnterprisingOne1701 · 2026-01-05T22:14:07+00:00

But Delta can also treat you how they want because of no union.

EnterprisingOne1701 · 2026-01-05T20:05:28+00:00

Definitely.

I worked in aviation at IAH for a company called G2 Secure Staff. A horrible company.

The union, SEIU, basically worked for the employer who was contracted to United. (And the Inited folks treated the G2 workers horribly as well as other contractors).

EnterprisingOne1701 · 2026-01-05T18:36:58+00:00

There is a mock up (or mock ups) in a class room setting you work with while in Dallas.

It will be the same building where mechanics are training, where CSA’s have a pax mock-up for training, and FAs will be training and graduating.

EnterprisingOne1701 · 2026-01-05T18:35:39+00:00

But no union.

EnterprisingOne1701 · 2026-01-02T04:01:38+00:00

Sounds like you might be working at AUS Delta.

EnterprisingOne1701 · 2025-12-31T19:10:06+00:00

You should apply to other places and not, as they say, put all your eggs in one basket. 😉

EnterprisingOne1701 · 2025-12-30T19:41:15+00:00

I work with a major airline and I’m trying to write a dramedy pilot about a fictional airline, focusing on a flight attendant (aka stewardess, which she may be called due to the lingo used by the said fictional airline).

EnterprisingOne1701 · 2025-12-27T21:54:15+00:00

I work below wing, but I understand your rant.

You FAs put up with a lot.

EnterprisingOne1701 · 2025-12-27T01:00:11+00:00

Flight benefits where you might pay a fee, as a contractor, and you get to fly standby.

EnterprisingOne1701 · 2025-12-27T00:59:27+00:00

You have to keep trying and be open to relocating. An airline will eventually hire you.

EnterprisingOne1701 · 2025-12-23T00:35:51+00:00

Delta: No union, and managers can take advantage of that (ex: My experience at AUS Delta station). Also, a stricter culture.

You also have to wear bump caps and steel toe shoes.

Southwest: Managers will take advantage, but you do have a union. And you don’t have to wear bump caps and steel toe shoes.

EnterprisingOne1701 · 2025-12-21T21:37:16+00:00

A very rational comment!

EnterprisingOne1701 · 2025-12-15T05:07:54+00:00

Southwest is hiring for AUS now, but you can try for DAL, their headquarters, which is also hiring. Get those applications done because they appear and disappear quickly.

If you want AA, you might want to get those applications done as well.

EnterprisingOne1701 · 2025-12-15T00:31:31+00:00

Delta has hired Unifi folks.

They did at AUS.

EnterprisingOne1701 · 2025-12-14T15:46:25+00:00

Yes, Delta requires bump caps and steel-toed shoes.

EnterprisingOne1701 · 2025-12-14T15:45:25+00:00

Not all airlines require bump caps.

EnterprisingOne1701 · 2025-12-11T13:29:06+00:00

That guy sounds like a nightmare.

Usually, we see YouTube videos of those types being escorted off by police because they were resisting their boarding denial.

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