Originally Posted by
DomP1
Unable to deliver a predeparture beverage.
They're plenty
able, they're just not incentivized to, and they know that failure to serve PDBs doesn't hurt them in any way.
Originally Posted by
USAF_Retired
"...flight attendants go through training in Qatar. Or Saudi Arabia..."
It's much easier to run an airline when the government subsidizes most of the expense.
Or when incompetence or laziness leads invariably and quickly to termination.
Almost all of my travel is in international J, I do very little domestic flying. I like the AA hard product, but it stops there. Cabin crew is nicer, friendlier, more helpful on foreign carriers. IIRC the APFA contract
prohibits AA cabin crew from helping put carryon bags in the overhead, while on foreign carriers it's part of the job. And food? Compare business class appetizer courses from AA (FCO to U.S.) and QR (DOH-JFK):
AA:
QR:
Even forgetting the caviar, which I don't expect from AA in business class, which of these would you rather see in front of you?