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Delta Air Lines

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Difficult work/life balance - IFS is definitely a lifestyle. - Flight Attendant Delta Air Lines Employee Review

4.0
22 May 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

• See the WORLD! The travel benefits are wonderful when you can easily get to a hub city. (Domestic travel tends to be a little more difficult due to oversold flights.) • A-days (Reserve) limited to 6 days per month • 401K matching! • Uniforms gifted after training + uniform refresh allowance every year. • Airport food/retail discounts • Meet new & interesting people • Crew lines at security are super fast

Cons

• Junior flight attendants! Expect to be on reserve for 10-20+ years depending on where you're based. • Easy to feel like a cog in the machine • Lots of time/holidays/birthdays spent away from loved ones. • Commuting is awful. If you're in a position to move to your base city, do it! • Airline industry tension is at an all time high • Passengers are often stressed out and disrespectful onboard • New crew every trip - you're not always going to get along with coworkers (but trips are short!) • Reroutes! Don't make plans until you're about to take off for your layover city - too often the whole trip gets changed up due to weather or mechanical issues. • Waking up at 3am is never fun. • Scheduling can push you to 16 hour work days! • 9-hour layovers are barely enough time to be functional the next day.

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5.0
29 Jun 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Great work life balance and flexibility

Cons

Union is needs because they try to change rules when needed

5.0
18 Sept 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Awesome company to work for! Fun work environment, cares about employees, great uniforms, competitive pay, just an awesome company to work for! They are very flexible, you can live anywhere in the world you want, as long as your able to get to work when you need to be there!

Cons

At the end of the day, it is a very large corporation. So it is very easy to become just a "number" in the company. The flight attendant group is not unionized, so rules can change very often. Make sure your time management is impeccable, because you cannot be late for work AT ALL, and there aren't many acceptable excuses, even rain is not an excuse.

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Delta Air Lines Response
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Thank you for your review and recommendation of Delta. We work hard every day to make Delta a great place to work; it’s nice to hear how much you enjoy our company and our work environment. Our people and our culture are our most important competitive advantages and the direct relationship we have enjoyed with our flight attendants has served our people, our customers and our company very well. To that end, we have a strong open door policy that enables any employee to go directly to a leader with any concerns, and we have hundreds of flight attendants who are actively engaged in our business, providing feedback and working on solutions for their colleagues and our customers. At Delta, a consistent, reliable operation is one of the reasons our top customers come back to fly with us time and again. That makes employee reliability – being on time, every day, for your shift or your flight – especially important. We agree that having a fundamental understanding of the flight attendant role is important for our field leaders, and we also value diversity at all levels of the company. That’s why so many of our field leaders are flight attendant qualified and many still fly when their schedules allow. We appreciate your feedback and will be sharing it with our In-Flight team. –Wendy, Talent Acquisition Team
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