American Airlines Employee Reviews about "flight benefits"

Pros

The flight benefits if you are a flight attendant or pilot cause you can ride the jump seats

Cons

Pay and the way manegment treat you like you are a employee Number no human touch

Pros

AA offers nice flight benefits and allow you to live in one location and work in another. This is unique to the airline industry.

Cons

Non-reving can be tricky. You have to find a flight that has plenty of seats and give yourself back up alternatives.

Pros

The flight benefits are incredible; free standby travel worldwide for employee and immediate family. Pay is considerably higher than similar position at other airlines or contractors. Wide variety of tasks from day to day, from employee discipline and engagement to assisting agents at gates and ticket counter.

Cons

CSMs and other managers in operational roles do not get any holidays off or comp time in lieu of holidays worked -- only 2 weeks of vacation plus two floating holidays per year. Meanwhile, the agents we manage get 4 weeks of vacation after their first year. The flight benefits are not that useful with only 2 days off per week and 2 weeks of vacation. Expectations are unclear for attendance/start time and tasks to be done during a shift.

Pros

We fly for free and have decent benefits. Its a job that not everyone can do. Its exiting i love it.

Cons

Flights are always full so its hard to fly standby and benefits are really expensive. Other groups treat us like dirt.

Pros

Right now there are none.

Cons

Management is inept (Senior management not supervisory) hey come after employee salaries and benefits whenever they are in trouble while taking huge bonuses themselves. They rule by intimidation and fear. They like to pit work group against work group. They are ruthless against other airlines and careless with the people they hurt in the cities we pull out of. The flight attendant union is as inept as the management it supposedly goes against! Don't believe for a second that they have your best interest at heart. Don't know which I hate more the union or the management. They have taken away every bit of flexibility we had in this job. The new pay and rules which will soon be implemented will leave new hires working for less than minimum wage when you calculate the hours out in compared to the hours paid! DON'T DO IT! Flight Benefits are useless as our planes are full because they have cut so much capacity!

Pros

Great if you want to travel. Great job while attending college or just as part time gig for the flight benefits and insurance. There is great flexibility.

Cons

Management is picked based on who you know and not what you know. If you have logic you are working at the wrong company. No appreciation from managers. They are s Always out to get you. Too many politics and too many small minded people with egos incharge which in turns screws up the operation.

Pros

flights benefits are great and being the biggest airlines in the world lets me move to any position i want !

Cons

Pay is sometimes low depending on your location

Pros

The flight benefits are great and many positions at the corporate office provide some kind of hybrid model.

Cons

The pay is not always competitive. Many people stay for the benefits.

Pros

Flight benefits is the only good thing and nothing else good to say about this place cause everything else is absolutely the worst

Cons

Managers with no clear direction Boys Club mentality No career path Worst pay structure Micromanagement Unrealistic work load Bad work ethics Discrimination

Pros

-benefits -great coworkers -“free flights” -hotel and partner perks

Cons

-management sees you as replaceable. they are also very unprofessional and will target you if you offend them. -flight benefits are standby which are impossible to use right now i’m sure it was great at some point - extremely micromanaged -mandatory overtime year round. you have to voluntarily work 6 extra hours a week or they can assign you 12 when they choose even on your days off. -horrible pay. definitely not a livable wage in DFW or even close, even before the inflation - you think you go for opportunity because that is what they promote but only maybe 5% move up or to other departments, most people quit