okay but lets look at this in the USA broke traditional way. There are alot of furloughed FA's or "cabin crew" here. There are even FA's leaving their airline for this opportunity. What EI pays here is double the amount you would start off at 1st year at a mainline carrier here. Secondly bidding isnt wonderful when your going to be on reserve for half of your entire life! This is creating jobs.. granted to the Euro its chump change but to the US its not that bad. Many people are jobless or losing thier jobs and this may be the opportunity that comes along as thier saving grace. To others its an opportunity that they may just want to embark on because of thier passion to fly. Either way its opportunity and an open door being that noone except regionals are hiring at this point, and wont be for a very long time. So the fact that UA fa's are upset EI crews are upset dont make a bit of difference to someone that needs a job and income to survive. Its all about survival and anyone in these peoples situations would be doing the same exact thing, and would have had thier application in there in a hot second with the rest! Its NOT scab pay unfortunetly and sadly its expected pay here. I barely came close to breaking 16k with per diem, and being IAD based with three airports to cover on oncall status. 17640 not including per diem is a dream to some over here across the pond! granted we are very much back in the day here still. Yes it is sad to see the CEO's pocket everything. Look what Glenn Tilton at United did to his company. Took away all the pension then turned around and gave him and his executives million dollar bonuses. After HIS airline was used in terrorist attacks, and his people were murdered at work that day, and still to this day UAL management just plain old sucks although unles Glenn's messages are always "stay United" please more like stay seperated. But what can we do about it? NOTHING! The only thing the union can do is fan fires and instigate employees to join along onboard the complain train and then what.. still nothing. To me Unions are just as worthless as the CEO's! We have been trying to get Uncle Glen at United out the door for the longest time. Wearing bracelets saying "Glens gotta go" the union even flew a place with the same message across his penthouse suite in Chicago... Ahem..... He's still here rolling in that dough! haha I will agree that sadly US crews really do need to work on thier professionalism. Really US crews really need to follow the EU crews leads. Hopefully EI trains the new hires to thier standards and dont let them slack off into what we see today over here.