Heard that AA is paying Flight Attendants an extra $700 to fly on the 31st and 1st. Can anyone confirm...?

Also, Scuttlebut is that they have a lot of people call in sick...

-- STFrancis (STFrancis@heaven.com), December 24, 1999

Answers

no, it's $300

-- autocoarsen (saabdriver@MIA.com), December 24, 1999.

STFrancis

Not sure about American but my best buddies are Flight Attendants for United and they always get double time flying over holidays. Not sure if the 700.00 is in addition to normal holiday pay, but an extra 700.00 couldn't get me in a plane over the roll nor for that matter, any amount.

Happy Holidays!!

-- notme (karlacalif@aol.com), December 24, 1999.

My wife is a PSA (passenger service agent) for United Express and she gets double time and a half for working Christmas and New Years and other major (Union) holidays. I doubt very much they are getting extra just because its Y2K rollover. If its not in the union contract, then forget it.

-- guy daley (guydaley@bwn.net), December 25, 1999.

Don't know if this was already posted, but in today's (12/26) SacBee was an article originally from the L.A. Times - Flight Trackers Likely to See Empty Skies as Nation Greets the New Year

snippet:

Only one American Airlines flight originating in the continental United States will be aloft as the nation greets the year 2000. The rest of the continental flights of the world's second-largest carrier have been canceled, and that one might have been canceled too, if not for one particular passenger. Federal Aviation Administrator Jane Garvey had booked the flight from Washington to Dallas-Fort Worth and on to San Francisco, and it would not be politic to ground the government's top airline regulator. So Garvey and a smattering of other passengers--mostly members of the news media--will have the lonely skies almost to themselves when midnight sweeps across the country on Dec. 31.

-- Linda (lwmb@psln.com), December 26, 1999.