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Old Apr 19, 2011 | 11:09 am
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cxfan1960
 
Join Date: Nov 2006
Programs: MPC,CA,MU,AF
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Originally Posted by KeepDiscovering
I'm curious ... is a FA's career progression based on years of experience or hours of services accumulated? For example, will a FA, like the one described, receive a promotion to Purser/ISM later than another one who has similar years of experiences & performance but with more flying hours?
Promotion also depends on where they are based. SFO-based FAs get promotion faster, but are only trained on 74As (they are not on 77As). If they move to HKG, they will likely be retrained on other A/Cs and restart from a lower grade.
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