AA FAs start peddling credit cards like US
Sep 5, 2014, 8:48 pm
#91
Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Global
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Wow, I apologize if I upset anyone or misrepresented what I was trying to say. I do mostly west coast flying so that's where I got my 5 hour reference and as I said before I don't do it on the very short flights and would never do it if it was going to compromise other duties. I also apologize if I sounded like I was complaining about my job. I still love my job after all these years and still enjoy coming to work, if I didn't I would have quit many years ago. I'm going to stop posting on this thread, but again I'm truly sorry if I said the wrong thing. Wishing everyone safe travels.
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Sep 5, 2014, 11:18 pm
#93
Join Date: Sep 2011
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I have a compromise:
FAs may solicit me while I'm trying to relax or work during the flight as long as I can have 15 minutes of your time after we land and you're off the clock, so that I can tell you about all the wonderful things that Amway and Jehovah's Witnesses have done in my life.... Deal ?
FAs may solicit me while I'm trying to relax or work during the flight as long as I can have 15 minutes of your time after we land and you're off the clock, so that I can tell you about all the wonderful things that Amway and Jehovah's Witnesses have done in my life.... Deal ?
I can do without the credit card hawking. It was one thing I did not enjoy at all on my US flights earlier this year.
Sep 6, 2014, 9:23 am
#94
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Laguna Niguel, CA
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As I said, soliciting customers is something I expect from a teenager at a mall kiosk, not a professional flight attendant. Soliciting is beneath the dignity of their profession.
Sep 6, 2014, 10:22 am
#95
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Also being "served" on your American Airlines flight starting at the end of the month will be flight attendants hawking credit cards.
So nice to see everything that makes US Airways America's worst and trashiest airline (at least Spirit doesn't pretend to be more than they are) come to AA.
So nice to see everything that makes US Airways America's worst and trashiest airline (at least Spirit doesn't pretend to be more than they are) come to AA.
Sep 7, 2014, 9:24 am
#96
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: NYC-BNA
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No, don't ignore it. Complain about it, including here, which AA monitors. There's already enough corporate noise in the cabin as it is, most of it redundant boilerplate to satisfy the lawyers. (Seriously, does anyone on earth not know how to buckle a set belt?)
Sep 7, 2014, 9:48 am
#97
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"...If you guys don't know how to use a seatbelt, just ring your call button and Tommy will come back there and hit you on the head with a tack hammer because you're a *ret--d*."
Sep 7, 2014, 10:31 am
#98
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: LAX
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Although many of us like to think of ourselves as AA's best customers, the unfortunate reality is that Citi is by far AA's biggest and best customer. That's bound to become more and more evident.
Sep 7, 2014, 10:38 am
#99
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Perhaps we'll get lucky and Citi won't want to pay AA's FAs $50 for successful applications. I doubt that Downgrade Dougie would pay it, so perhaps the solicitations might cease.
Sep 7, 2014, 4:01 pm
#100
Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: LAX
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If enough people just respond with a polite "No, thanks", then the offers will disappear.
Sep 7, 2014, 4:22 pm
#101
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You don't even have to get to that point. I have never been approached by a FA on a US flights, asking if I want to fill out a CC application. There is usaully a PA announcement, and then a FA walks down the aisle with the applications in hand. You don't even have to acknowledge them as they pass by your row. HOWEVER, I have been singled out many times in AA terminals, as well as UA and DL terminals, by people hawking the airline's CC (standing near a makeshift kiosk) as I walked passed them going to my gate. Is that method supposed to be more "refined" and, of course, more "premium"?
Sep 7, 2014, 4:45 pm
#102
Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Global
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You don't even have to get to that point. I have never been approached by a FA on a US flights, asking if I want to fill out a CC application. There is usaully a PA announcement, and then a FA walks down the aisle with the applications in hand. You don't even have to acknowledge them as they pass by your row. HOWEVER, I have been singled out many times in AA terminals, as well as UA and DL terminals, by people hawking the airline's CC (standing near a makeshift kiosk) as I walked passed them going to my gate. Is that method supposed to be more "refined" and, of course, more "premium"?
I also agree about the plane... while the multiple announcements are annoying if you are watching the IFE, it is pretty easy to ignore them (and they you) when they walk down the isle.
Sep 7, 2014, 5:13 pm
#103
Join Date: May 2010
Posts: 542
Also being "served" on your American Airlines flight starting at the end of the month will be flight attendants hawking credit cards.
So nice to see everything that makes US Airways America's worst and trashiest airline (at least Spirit doesn't pretend to be more than they are) come to AA.
So nice to see everything that makes US Airways America's worst and trashiest airline (at least Spirit doesn't pretend to be more than they are) come to AA.
If anything, I would suggest being solicited in the Admirals Club is much worse (even if the card does offer a 100k sign up bonus).
Sep 7, 2014, 5:15 pm
#104
Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: SFO
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Posts: 5,270
On the plane you are a captive audience, and if on a connecting itinerary you can be subjected to the same droning, 10-minute speech multiple times per day.