Underpaid Flight Attendants Forced to Share Crash Pads in Expensive Cities

By Lindsay Rogers While being a flight attendant can sound fun on the surface — traveling the world, meeting new people — it’s not uncommon for them to start out making somewhere between $25,000 to $30,000 a year. That’s a sharp contrast from the lofty annual payouts top airline executives are known to receive. (Skift reported that, in 2018, Delta Air Lines CEO Ed Bastian received roughly $13.2 million in compensation, mostly in stock, which was 142 times greater than the median pay for Delta workers overall at the time.) Per a new report from The Boston Globe, only veteran flight attendants w…

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