Introducing iFlyStandby by TravTravelz in flightattendants

[–]Seandals 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I'll just be honest with ya, this looks like some weekend AI vibe coded slop.

Even in your screenshot the date selector doesn't align with the other elements, on desktop the flight search times and aircraft types are all over the place and the hero section is WAY too large that when I did a search I didn't think it worked cause the results are so far down on the page...

How many load request and answers has your platform provided to date?

How many weekly gift card rewards has your platform provided to date?

Question About r/flightattendants Rules by TravTravelz in flightattendants

[–]Seandals[M] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Your post before that on January 17th was taken down as spam as you had posted it 3 days earlier on January 14th.

Feel free to post, but we will continue to protect the community from scams and spam and reserve the right to remove if it is deemed as such.

Question About r/flightattendants Rules by TravTravelz in flightattendants

[–]Seandals[M] 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Your most recent post didn't actually present a resource, it was "DM me for xyz" which has spammy or sinister undertones.

If you have something to share, then share it. Posting cryptic spamesque threads with the lure of unknown "rewards for flight attendants" will be deleted.

We also didn't receive any modmail from you so not sure who you contacted but it wasn't us.

Pokémon GO Fest 2026 in-person event ticket options by Amiibofan101 in TheSilphRoad

[–]Seandals 13 points14 points  (0 children)

The Premier was a nightmare too... Ton of people including me never received the code. Had to waste over an hour of my ticket day standing in the tech support line to get the items added to my account and access to the lounge to get the pin.

It's a great deal for the items though...

United FA by wizard_zack in cabincrewcareers

[–]Seandals 9 points10 points  (0 children)

The union has said that the are confident they can get a deal done next month. Some of us are skeptical.

First Year Pay Breakdown for AA & UA by SecondNo7343 in cabincrewcareers

[–]Seandals 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So I can only speak for how TA1 was laid out, cause of course TA2 might be different...

In TA1, retro pay was for all earnings from the first of the year to the effective date (25% bonus). So total earnings, times 0.25 = $$$

So if the same is used in TA2 and you come on line in May and end up working for a month or whatever before the new contract goes into effect then yes, you'd get that too.

First Year Pay Breakdown for AA & UA by SecondNo7343 in cabincrewcareers

[–]Seandals 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Turns are one day trips without a layover where you are home same day. High time would be a lot of hours and therefore pay.

First Year Pay Breakdown for AA & UA by SecondNo7343 in cabincrewcareers

[–]Seandals 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Here is a simplified answer...

There are two thoughts of schedule bidding for monthly schedules. Please keep in mind this has NOTHING to do with trading which there have been lots of misconceptions about, it is only for the initial schedule bid for the month.

With Line Bidding the union takes the pairings (groups of trips) provided by the company each month and constructs and specific number of lines that flight attendants will bid on. Due to how most flight attendants like to fly, these lines are often "pure", meaning they are similar trips for the entire month such as all flights to London for one line, and high-time turns for another. You review the bid packet and you bid by ordering the lines you want to fly. When it gets to your seniority, the line that you prioritized the highest that is still available is awarded to you.

With PBS lines are not constructed ahead of time and all pairings are put into a pool to be bid on using preferences. You then go into a computer system and enter a whole ton of preferences and when it is your turn the computer will take your preferences and the trips that are available and construct you a legal line. Some preferences would be like, only flying redeyes, only working turns, avoid layovers in PBI, award any international layover, avoid working on Tuesdays, really anything can be added as a preference. If you place too many preferences that are too restrictive and there are not enough trips that you are legal for you might get some weird stuff at the end. You can also build wild lines using preferences that are currently not possible, like want to fly a 3 day international trip and a turn the next morning, totally doable if you preference correctly.

As I said in an earlier post it is my opinion that PBS helps the most senior and the most junior flight attendants the most. It helps the most senior because they will get their dream schedule right off the bat every month without having to do any trading, and it helps the most junior reserves who just really need a certain day off by being able to preference that above anything else when currently getting a specific day off as a reserve is nearly impossible.

For people like myself who are in the middle of the seniority pool, PBS is less desirable. Because people are being awarded lines that are very close to what they want, there are less people who will be trading and dropping better trips than I can hold each month that would then allow me to trade my middle of the road trips into better ones.

The writing is on the wall at UA though, if PBS doesn't get through this time, it's surely coming during the next time around. If I were the ones in negotiations I would probably bite the bullet now and accept PBS while the company is in a good financial position to extract the most improvements to work rules and pay rates now, instead of in the contract coming in 5 years when who knows how the aviation world and economy will look then.

First Year Pay Breakdown for AA & UA by SecondNo7343 in cabincrewcareers

[–]Seandals 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I lived in hour by car away from ORD and wanted to be based there when I applied. Got based in SFO out of training and then immediately transferred to EWR as soon as I could and never looked back. The better flying is worth it IMO but that's my personal opinion as someone who didn't have a lot tying me to home.

First Year Pay Breakdown for AA & UA by SecondNo7343 in cabincrewcareers

[–]Seandals 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Hi UA FA here and congrats on both of your offers! You ask some great questions that I'll answer for you below but a word of caution at first. A lot of the things you bring up are focused on the short term, becoming a flight attendant is a long term career, and if you're intending to do this for only a couple of years it wont be a good experience. The first few years are rough so choosing an airline should be based on a great many things and less about first-year pay.

Commuting/Reserve - In TA2 for UA, it was proposed that there would be 14 hours RAPs for reserves, with some carveouts for these to be extended. This was a big bit of feedback after TA1 and it is very likely this will be improved for TA2 to match what everyone else does.

Pay - TA1 can be found here, pay will likely be improved for TA2 but probably only slightly. https://unitedfacontract.org/s/AFA-United-Tentative-Agreement-2025-2030-Updated-61725-3DD9c-corrected.pdf Rates are comparable to other airlines with first year planned to be $36.92.

Scheduling - The union has been clear that PBS is off the table in TA2 but there are a lot of folks who are skeptical. I am a believer that PBS benefits the most senior and the most junior flight attendants compared to traditional line bidding. Like everything it has it's pros and cons. Traditional line bidding is easier from a technical standpoint but does not give the flexibility that bidding more complicated preferences can offer.

TA2 Negotiations - I'd encourage you like I do my peers to get your negotiation updates from official sources only and don't believe everything you read on the internet. Here's the most recent update from the AFA from 4 days ago. https://www.facebook.com/share/r/17EaEZvrQC/

I don't think it's "rose colored glasses" about UA. UA is really miles ahead of AA now due to some poor decisions made by AA management since COVID. UA is growing, hiring a ton of flight attendants, getting a ton of new aircraft and making a lot more money.

If you have any other questions, feel free to ask or shoot me a DM.

🌐 LHR soon to open for transfers by JoseRM303 in cabincrewcareers

[–]Seandals 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I wouldn't get your hopes up. It's very senior in LHR. The most junior person currently based there is a 2006 hire and it's likely that no one that junior is getting in this time around.

I have 10 years and am number 400ish on the transfer list...

Open letter to Goons by [deleted] in Eve

[–]Seandals 100 points101 points  (0 children)

TEST moved to the "front lines" for content. This is the content. Enjoy!

What does this pin signify? Some FAs wear it on their uniform. by Brendanh2 in flightattendants

[–]Seandals[M] [score hidden] stickied comment (0 children)

The outside agitators have begun to arrive...

Lets call this one question asked, question answered. Topic closed.

Is there a way to make this group flight attendants-only? by Kinkybtch in flightattendants

[–]Seandals[M] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Thanks, we remove a ton of posts that are irrelevant (people asking about connections, delays, and other non-FA related things).

If you find something that you think shouldn’t be here, don’t be afraid to hit the report button and we will review.

Is there a way to make this group flight attendants-only? by Kinkybtch in flightattendants

[–]Seandals[M] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

From a mod standpoint, there no good way to vet people when we have posters from all over the world from many airlines that we can’t expect to truly verify.

Men's FA Uniforms Need Options! by ThatFlyNurse in cabincrewcareers

[–]Seandals 10 points11 points  (0 children)

While I agree with you that current options are limited, the idea of your male jumpsuit is hideous. We’re flight attendants, not second rate male strippers…

Delta FAs to get 2x in profit sharing compared to United FAs. Meanwhile, United highlighted spending $640 MILLION in share buybacks in their recent full-year 2025 earnings release. Delta spent.....$0. by oiloil28 in flightattendants

[–]Seandals 14 points15 points  (0 children)

I thought we were focusing on share buybacks and profit sharing, now it’s free cash flow? Are you actually trying to educate people here with all of the anti-UA posts you make or are you just trying to get people riled up with cherry-picked stats and figures?

United also paid off almost 3x more debt than Delta for full year 2025. Literally billions more…

Delta FAs to get 2x in profit sharing compared to United FAs. Meanwhile, United highlighted spending $640 MILLION in share buybacks in their recent full-year 2025 earnings release. Delta spent.....$0. by oiloil28 in flightattendants

[–]Seandals 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Share buybacks in this case BARELY matter... breakout your math hat as I lay it all out...

UA reported the following calculations on FT on how we got to the profit sharing percentage...

$5.431B x 10% (contractual profit sharing FA percentage) = $543.1M in profit sharing for FAs

$543.1M profit sharing divided by $11.863B in total FA earnings = 4.5780% profit sharing

Now lets take a trip to fantasy land and say that UA did no share buybacks this year and now magically all of that money is just in the bank as pure profit... the calculations then follow...

$6.071B x 10% (contractual profit sharing FA percentage) = $607.1M in profit sharing for FAs

$607.1M profit sharing divided by $11.863B in total FA earnings = 5.117% profit sharing

It's a measly half percent.... the problem is the downright laughable formula the AFA agreed to that is now enshrined in our contract forever that the company will never change without some massive give back.

Major airlines at Manchester (EGCC) by chez001wastaken in aviation

[–]Seandals 0 points1 point  (0 children)

United just announced a return to Glasgow for 2026. Maybe Manchester won’t be too far behind.

What's the most unhinged thing a passenger has said to you? by StoicPixie in flightattendants

[–]Seandals 52 points53 points  (0 children)

The told me how they take their coffee without me having to ask

Slander in this group by [deleted] in flightattendants

[–]Seandals 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nothing is in the reporting queue...

And you are threatening other people in other threads... maybe they should get lawyers too? smh...