Pros
Originally believed the free flight benefits were a pro. But the reality is you fly stand by After all of the paying customers and typically flights are fewer and always full since COVID. This goes for international flights too.
Cons
1. The trainers are former flight attendants with only high school educations with no college degrees and have zero professional teaching qualifications or teaching experience. 2. The truth is It's a shock to come to realize you are being slowly brainwashed because the training is exactly like military basic training: long exhausting 12-13 hour days, few meal/beverage breaks, exist on few hours sleep, nightly required homework, bathroom breaks discouraged, frequent tests written and drills requiring 80 grade FAA and 90 grade overall average Delta AL passing grade, 7 weeks training 6 days a week. 3. When you graduate to flight attendant you are warned there is often loneliness and being apart the majority of the month from your family and loved ones. Depression among flight attendants is a real problem. 4. You are paired with a room mate for 7 weeks into a small 200 sq ft hotel room and that alone is enough make you quit especially if your room mate is self centered. 5. It is not a glamorous job. It is a safety cop and airline hostess waitress/waiter job. 6. If I tell anyone on the outside world about the truth of this training they would be in disbelief.
