Flight attendants are among the industry's frontline workers when disruptions like these happen – and they're being trained to meet new challenges.
The COVID-19 pandemic saw thousands of flight attendants who either quit, were furloughed or took a buyout. Then, as travel rebounded, airlines were short-staffed. All of them are now hiring."I thought I was kind of old but then I thought this would be a nice career transition to take me into retirement," heShe was previously a firefighter but doesn't expect her new line of work to be less stressful.
First, trainees must learn tasks like the mechanics of opening the doors of six different aircraft types. A model of a plane's fuselage in the new aquatic center has trainees practicing for water landings. There's also the everyday duties of food and beverage service.
That's very neat. I would definitely feel safer if I ever fly again, knowing all that dedicated training they had.