Originally Posted by
HeathrowGuy
... the high service levels and manageable cost structures of major airlines have historically been dependent upon maintaining a relatively junior workforce, with a small cadre of senior personnel serving as pursers, trainers, station managers and the like to retain institutional knowledge and impart best practices traits on the rest of the staff.
Yeah, but you make that sound like a bad thing.
Seriously, what's wrong with that? That was the traditional airline service model until the 1960s or 70s. Nobody expected an FA job to burgeon into a career you could support a family on -- it was a lark for a few years after you got out of school.
Not every job is a career, or should be. You can't buy a house on a pizza delivery guy's paycheck, no matter how many years you do it. I'm not equating FA jobs with pizza delivery. I'm just saying nobody has a right to a wage in excess of market forces.