Originally Posted by
guidospizza
From my experience, stations are assigned in order of join date. During the pre flight briefing, they would go down the list and the most senior (i.e. the attendant that has been with the airline longest) gets to take his/her pic. It usually goes 1A, 1B...etc, but one actually chose Y when her name was called, although there were still stations in the back of J available. Told me she loves F, but chooses Y over J on this flight full of OP-UPs...
Not necessarily. I've been told that on DL international, FAs do business class in one direction and coach in the other, with the purser (who works in business class) serving as the inflight service manager for coach in the other direction.
FAs with particular language skills would be assigned to certain positions too, sometimes serving the Asian meals or distributing landing cards but not spending all their time in the galley.