Wearing a uniform usually comes with some risk if you ask first responders, but one flight attendant says that they also deal with safety risks.
, who went by the pseudonym Meryl Love in the opinion piece she wrote for The Guardian, a British publication, is apparently not alone in her sentiment. have emerged in the last year as flight crew face unruly and disrespectful passengers, violence and staffing issues, according to the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA, AFL-CIO — the nation’s leading flight attendant union.
“Flight Attendants wonder every morning they put on their uniform whether [they will have] a sign of leadership and authority in the cabin to keep everyone safe, or a target for a violent attack,” Nelson said at the time. “While the number of bad actors is relatively small, the incidents of disruptions have been so pervasive,” Nelson said.
Nelson testified that disruptive passengers increase the chance that a flight attendant, whom she considers a first responder of the skies, will miss out on cues of a coordinated attack.have been facing, Nelson suggested that addressing violence and disrespect toward flight crew on the ground can help reduce incidents on flights, along with stronger government actions, keeping a centralized list of violators, addressing staffing shortages and providing self-defense training.
As travel starts to pick up again as we come out of the pandemic, the growing fear for safety in the air lingers on flight attendants’ minds.“Passengers are particularly tense in this summer of travel chaos, and in my cabin crew uniform, I am the physical embodiment of all their flying woes,” Love wrote.
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