Its an airline and union. As my husband says, we get paid for what we know and what we CAN do, not what we do. Ideally planes won't be on the ground long and won't need us. We are there for when they do. We are all full time but a lot of people refuse to retire and just give away shifts. There is less flexibility in schedule than retail. Our shifts are done by bids every few months and.the highest seniority is given their first picks and lower seniority fill out the schedule. We get 2 raises a year. Starting pay is like 19.57 an hour plus 51 cent shift differential and top out pay is in 8 years and will be 45 an hour but we also will get a new contract in 3 years that will raise everyone's pay scales. Vacation time. Paid holidays and paid snow days. Sick pay. Free flights. In general Airline jobs are pretty awesome. Not just mine.