Are flight attendants significantly underpaid? The answer is yes (forbes.com)

August 18, 2019

By James Asquith

Many of us see the headlines about cabin crew and pilots voting to take strike action and we are quick to think of our summer holidays being ruined. Ultimately, the most disruptive of the peak time strikes are usually averted, but they certainly get the airlines’ attention. So who is right? The airlines or the crew and their unions?

Ask the 226 passengers on the Ural Airlines flight this week that had to make an emergency landing in a cornfield. Ask them if they think that their crew was overpaid. All 234 passengers and crew ultimately survived.

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Tags: income inequality, low pay, profits, working conditions