Are they as old as the flight attendants left with some US airlines? Many of the younger, really good-looking ones got laid off and frequently switched careers or returned to previous jobs. Some of our pilots quit and will never return to the business. This is quite bizarre if one considers the background and work required to find a pilot job with a major US airline
. In the military, physical risk is an additional, well-known factor with many flying duties.
Many FAs here are too old and out of shape to meet for a free beer and popcorn. And their morale is lower than it has ever been, while the company is quite calloused and typically arrogant about staff morale. Their previous union never created a retirement fund.
They are tired of being around people after flying three, four or even six legs in one long domestic duty period. Almost every day, they change aircraft once or twice at a hub in the same 10-hour (maybe 13-) duty period, with no rest period required by any regs nor provided.
Some of them often check-in by themselves in a hotel; each day they go from one crew to another, in order for the company to have the required staffing for various seating capacities. Maybe a B-737 or DC-9, then an A-320 etc. They are the "add" or extra flight attendants.