Originally Posted by
FSUnole03
It amazes me that with as senior as she is having been at AA for 60-years that of all the routes she could fly she does the DCA-BOS shuttle. Wouldn't she want to do longer routes where she works longer trips, but had more days off per month or are the shuttle flights preferred by senior crews?
Its been mentioned before in other articles about her that she has an adult son who is disabled so working the shuttle allows her to be home every night to be with him.
Besides, early in her career with Eastern she moved to be a DCA-based flight attendant on the shuttle.
This was good news for her, because when Eastern sold the Shuttle to our President-Elect, she went with the sale. At Trump Shuttle, they all kept their original Eastern seniority dates. Meanwhile, those who stayed at Eastern lost everything a few years later when the rest of the airline went under.
When US Air bought out the Trump Shuttle, eventually, the FAs were integrated with the US Air union, and they all kept their original Eastern seniority date.
And now, with an integrated workforce at AA, she's at the top of the list.
Think of how many F/As had to start over seniority wise due to mergers, bankruptcies, etc. That Bette and her colleagues managed to slide through all the consolidation and keep their date of hire in tact is remarkable.