<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by ap2110:
Well cry me a river. So you work 10-12 hours and are tired. On many occasions I have woke up at Monday morning at 4:00 A.M. and traveled to the West Coast, engaged in meetings, dinner meetings, then took the red ey to the East Coast and worked all day only to get on another flight on tuesday evening. So don't talk about how tired you are. It is my reward for consistently flying the airline to be U/G. The FAs can stand in the galley. </font>
I was not crying, I was just explaining why those seats are sometimes unavailable to passengers. Fortunately for FAs, our work rules and contracts make it so we don’t have to stand in the galley for 12 hours - I get to sit in a comfortable seat for an hour.
I think ff are entitled to the perks they get, and while I know unlimited domestic upgrades are a part of most programs, I didn’t think international upgrades (without using miles) were included. If there are empty seats in business and you are on a coach ticket I think it is rather presumptuous to assume you’d be sitting anywhere other than coach on an international flight.
I must say from the tone of your letter (“I’m owed an upgrade,” “FAs shouldn’t be able to use the seat I didn’t pay for because I want it - darn contract!!!”) you may be long over due for a break yourself.
[This message has been edited by MEM FA (edited Dec 05, 2003).]