Not much I can do about that. Getting a job as an FA isn't like getting a job as a pilot. There is no FA shortage, so it is super competitive. Obviously much harder and more expensive to become a pilot, but it seems like if you have what it takes to make it, you are basically guaranteed a job in the end.
Oh agreed. 5 leg days in the ATL system are always more pleasant than the similar trips in the upper midwest. Then again, 5 leg days where I don't leave the state of California aren't bad either, well, except for SFO...
Do you mean the weather or something else? I already live in MSP, so the weather in the upper midwest is already a part of my lifestyle :/
San Diego seems like the base for you...
YMMV
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Does SAN have the early show plus late release problem referenced below?
They were, at one point, requiring no-commute letters from new hire flight attendants. Don't know if they still are. And I don't know how vigorously they were enforced.
I know they say you have to relocate, but, honestly, I don't know many people who can afford to sell their house and move their family across country for a minimum wage job. I have heard that it is pretty easy to transfer to MSP, so this is all just in order to get the best possible base for my first few months.
Generally: anywhere that is an outstation is going to have very early shows and very late release times. This is because SkyWest likes having pilot bases in places where maintenance is done, and thus, the schedules lend themselves to 'first flight out, last flight in' in those places.
This is super useful, thanks! I'll make a point of putting all of the outstations last, especially the ones that are also maintenance bases or line stations.
I work quite a few 2 and 3 leg days in MSP. My next four day trip is 5/2/2/3. Day one is annoying for sure, but only two legs are long enough to be service flights so not a whole lot of work for my lone FA.
I hadn't thought about short flights being no service flights. That does make the idea of 5 legs in a day more bearable, especially if it's just one day in a four day trip.
Yeah, as previously mentioned, that doesn't matter. In fact, from folks I know who are DL FAs, you'd have better luck getting a job as a gate agent for DL then becoming a FA than being a FA for a subcontractor regional doing DL Connection flights and then getting a job at DL.
I hear that, but I'm absolutely not willing to work 40 hours a week for an unknown period of time just to try for DL FA once each year. It is really weird to me that people say this, though. I can't imagine how doing the exact same job in a position where the public perceives you as a Delta employee doesn't make them think you would be a good fit for the job.
If you live in MSP (and for reasons I could never fathom actually LIKE it), don't go chasing better lines by commuting. Once you get senior enough MSP has quite a few good lines and even on reserve I haven't had too many trips with more than 4 legs in one day. Living in base "is the bee's knees... the wasp's nipples. [It] is, I would go so far as to say, the entire set of erogenous zones of every major flying insect of the Western world" as one would say.
No commute is easy. They can be managed, tolerated, and indeed preferred if you have zero desire to live in the base city, but it won't be made any easier when you first start and are at the bottom of the standby list, cannot jumpseat, and are constantly under threat of being written up at an airline that actively discourages FAs from commuting during their first year. If you live in MSP, want to live in MSP, and don't wanna hate your life, don't commute.
This is all really good advice. I definitely am putting MSP and ORD at the top of my list. I was just thinking that maybe the flying at ORD would be good enough to justify the commute. But you are right, that doesn't make sense. I will put MSP first, ORD second, then the other hubs, then the outstations.
