Etihad Airways Reviews

Pros

The overall pack was amazing. The money is good and it's all for yourself because you don't pay taxes. Accomodation is provided or housing allowance is paid in addition to the salary. We stayed in overall nice hotels and most layovers were nice although most of them were 24 hours. We had a lot of discounts at stores and restaurants... Abu Dhabi is a nice city to live in

Cons

Long working hours with sometimes minimum rest hours between flights. This was exhausting and you reach a point where you can't get out of bed. The company's vision has been unclear for the last three years and constant change in management and restructuring affected the business and the passengers' experience. Which meant it was up to the crew to defend the company's reputation onboard the aircraft when passengers got onboard and complained about the constant changes. There was a culture of bullying which unfortunately was not addressed much. Hierarchy is everything on board and if the captain tells you off for no reason, nothing you can do about it because his word weighs more than yours. There was no pay raise for four years. Most Cabin managers hold their posts because they have been with the company for so many years. Passengers can tell you off, be rude to you, shout at you and call you names and you still can't defend yourself because if you speak back, you'll probably end up with a warning (passengers are always right in this company)

Advice to Management

Start recognising the hard working cabin crew. Stop promoting crew just because they have been in the company for 10 years. Stop threatening and punishing the crew because they call sick 'too many times' because in any company 10 days sick leave in one whole year is not a huge deal, especially as crew we were prone to illness from travelling, contact with bodily fluids on the aircraft, passengers coughing on our faces in a tiny aircraft... Also, another not so great about the job is, if you have leave in a certain month, your salary drops drastically, because you get paid a basic salary (considerably low) plus your flying hours

Pros

Multi cultural environment, very nice colleagues

Cons

Management, favouritism, only concenrened about making money. Long hours and shift work.