The real reason flight attendants are onboard...

Just a series of video clips I put together to show the real reason flight attendants are on board...
Lots of people love to make the argument that flight attendants, despite the months of emergency training they go through, just serve beverages. What passengers don't see is the hour before and after a flight doing security checks, checking emergency equipment, and reveiwing emergency procedures. Not only that, they're REQUIRED by every goverment aviation organization to be on board for SAFETY. I can guaranty you, if the government didn't require them to be on board FOR YOUR SAFETY, F/As would be axed completely in coach on domestic flights and on regional jets. They're required to be there not to serve drinks but for safety.

Only catastrophic incidents like AF358 and US1549 make the news. Every time a flight attendant gives first aid, restarts a heart with a defibrillator, or evacuates an aircraft doesn't make the news. Full blown emergency evacuations occur in the USA, on average, once a week. Airlines don't have a certain quota of emergencies they have to have occur every year. The fact is an emergency could occur on any flight and flight attendant's are constantly preparing for that and willing to risk their life to save you. F/As are no longer staffed based upon service, most US Airlines have cut their F/A staffing levels to the bare minimum FAA SAFETY level of 1 flight attendant per 50 passengers.

You wonder why the service sucks? Its because the flight attendant to passenger ratio is based upon the number of F/As it takes to get everyone out of a plane in 90 seconds or handle a wide range of other emergencies, not how quickly it takes them to get you a can of Coke.

Bottom line, any arrogant business passenger can put any spin they like on it but F/As are required by the FAA to be on board for safety.

Thank you to Markhk for the American 747 training clip.

Category:

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• flight
• attendants
• cabin
• crew
• airplane
• aircraft
• emergency
• evacuation
• life
• slide
• raft
• oxygen
• mask
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• american
• airlines

[musicfreak520]

Awesome vid!

Whats the name of the song playing in the background?

[Planeguy13]

Its called Call on me.

[jiml128]

how many months did u spend for emergency training?

[Planeguy13]

Its typically six to eight weeks.

[keduardop]

Flights Attendants are heroes, I don't understand how ignorant people see them as waitresses

[ThemeGlobaL]

gay.

[1Filmproducer]

i wonder if anyones jumped before the slides inflated?

[MarkMck1994]

I Would crapping my self in a real evacuation of an Aircraft.

[blake8068]

what song is that playing

[RayAir1]

Why are they heroes?

[ibflynhi]

Thank you for seeing us in our true light!!

[keduardop]

If someone saved your life would you say

"thank you for doing what your payed for?"

or

"thank you for being my hero and saving my life"

[DIMATIF]

That's so fun u was volunteer 217 it awaome

[keduardop]

very true.I love the title, I love their job.

Great vid