Some airlines, JetBlue and Song, for insance, tried recruiting flight attendants that would only stick around for a few years and then leave... Song was absorbed back into mainline DL so I have no idea how it would have worked out there, but I'm curious if the model is working for JetBlue. Are they able to keep their costs down because their flight attendants never reach the magic number of service years required to reach the top pay?

The saying "I'm here to save your a**, not kiss it" is still partially true, but in the end SERVICE is what we're know for, SERVICE is what we're paid for. That's why I believe in a performance based payscale, rather than a seniority based system. But if I raise that point in the lounge I'd get killed! Not a popular view amongst my peers...