Originally Posted by
shefgab
No one has ever said "I want to be crew to travel the world AND because I love working evenings, weekends and holidays".
Working those unsociable shifts is a necessary evil. Crew know they have to do them, but most wouldn't list it as a highlight.
Only when you've spent multiple Christmas/New Year/birthday/anniversary in a bland hotel the wrong side of the world, can you really appreciate the significance of not working 9-5.
A token of appreciation to the crew away from their families so you can have a Christmas break in Barbados is really not too much.
I'm sure many people work holidays shifts for economic reasons rather than out of preference. But that's also true of our train drivers, check-in agents, baggage handlers, flight deck crew etc. so it's still a bit of a puzzle why there's a taste for tipping cabin crew especially. Is it because you spend more time with them, or is about feeling a 'special relationship'?