bennos

That would be awful.

"In the event of a water landing, WHICH YOU SHOULD ABSOLUTELY BE PREPARED FOR BECAUSE IT COULD VERY WELL HAPPEN ON THIS FLIGHT AND PROBABLY MAY EVEN, life vests are beneath your seats. DID YOU KNOW YOUR SEATBELT COULD KILL YOU IF NOT USED PROPERLY?????!!!!! After this commercial from Lincoln, we'll tell you how DANGEROUS IT IS WHEN OVERHEAD BINS CONTAIN BAGS HOLDING HELIUM BALLOONS and THIS IMPROPERLY STOWED LAPTOP MIGHT HAVE BROKEN ONE MAN'S KNEES."

edgewood49

SEA

plagwate

And we've created a holographic simulation to demonstrate just how easily this could happen to you and your family.

JOSECONLSCREW28

Read an article about this a month or so ago stated that a large chunk of the new hire FAs would be based in SEA.

anbhc

Posted in the Careers section on delta.com

08/20/2014 Flight Attendant- Spanish Speaking Skills Required 224453 See Job Description 614 - IFS F/A TRAINEES

08/20/2014 Flight Attendant- Mandarin Speaking Skills Required 224452 See Job Description 614 - IFS F/A TRAINEES

08/20/2014 Flight Attendant- No Bilingual Skills Required 224449
See Job Description 614 - IFS F/A TRAINEES

08/20/2014 Flight Attendant- Dutch Speaking Skills Required 224450 See Job Description 614 - IFS F/A TRAINEES

08/20/2014 Flight Attendant- Hindi Speaking Skills Required 224454 See Job Description 614 - IFS F/A TRAINEES

08/20/2014 Flight Attendant- French Speaking Skills Required 224451 See Job Description 614 - IFS F/A TRAINEES 08/20/2014

jdrtravel

This probably made sense when fuel was cheap, but Delta has clearly stated that flying RJ's, and especially the 50 and less seaters, no longer makes economic sense for many routes.

TRVLUPGD

+1

Almost everywhere else people speak more than one language. Only in US do we not encourage multilingual education. Often not even English.

The world is changing, we need more interactions with other countries and cultures.

Zeeb

True, but there aren't many other places in the world where you could drive 1,000 miles in almost any direction and when you got there everyone spoke the same language as where you started. Until recently there was no need to be bilingual in the US like there was elsewhere. Learning a second language in the US was purely a leisure or business pursuit.

dmorbust

Thank you posting - very interesting regarding the Hindi. Currently DL only flies to India from AMS, could we see a USA-India direct flight from DL? I did not see that coming. Any guesses as to what the route would be?

WestSideBilly

I know a fair number of MSFT and AMZN types that would love a SEA-BOM or SEA-DEL direct. SEA-BOM is 7800 miles so I'm not sure DL really has the planes for it (would be a good 787-9 route, though).

TRVLUPGD

business pursuit.[/ Those are the words to live by our children and grand children. What you said is true for the timebeing but see if you can get jobs in some parts of Florida, CA, TX etc.

Remember " clean your plate, children are starving in Mexico "...it should be replaced with " speak Spanish, Mandarin, Hindi etc, because they speak English too and are waiting to take your jobs !"

KoKoBuddy

I literally laughed out loud at that.
Well done.

KoKoBuddy

Let's be real. Those jobs in TX, CA, etc are jobs that no self respecting American high school kid would ever dream of doing. These are after all the jobs that "Americans Won't Do". If the selling point of learning Spanish is that one day you too may get a job picking tomatoes in 104 degree heat in Texas.....it's not much of an incentive.

Learning a second language is never a bad idea. But for a native English speaker, it's still more or less a leisure pursuit. Yeah there are some jobs like FA where being bilingual helps. But for the vast majority of good paying jobs in the US, speaking English is what matters.

KoKoBuddy

Almost everywhere else people speak more than one language. Only in US do we not encourage multilingual education.


Yes and what's the other language that everyone who lives in "everywhere else" learns first? English. There's a reason for that. Figure out that reason, and then you'll figure out why it's not critical for Americans to learn a second language.

The reason the rest of the world learns English is because English is the international language. Not just of business, but of everything. When a group of scientists from all over the world gets together in Berlin, what do they speak? English. At the Cannes film festival, what is the common language? English. And so on.

People "everywhere else" don't learn English because they have a burning desire to learn English. They do it because they know that if they don't speak English, their career paths are severely limited. And since (most) American kids already speak English better than everyone from "everywhere else" already, they're good to go.