Comment from Anonymous

It is obvious from what I have read here and what I’ve heard from other flight attendants that we are not even an afterthought. We serve food and drink, and we’re expected perform safety roles. But the minute our roles as Flight Attendant becomes an inconvenience, they convert us to inflight service representatives. That way we can be used with no real duty limits, meaning we’re not entitled to rest or a rest area. We’re not robots. We’re real people who cannot perform for 20 hours on end and be expected to smile and look pretty the whole time. Our group is not as big as the pilot group, and our union doesn’t have the power of NJASAP. But we still deserve some recognition. This exemption only extends our already long duty periods while doing nothing to ensure we get any rest. We already compete with the pilots for use of the rest area. Put us with four pilots and we have no chance. Put us with four pilots and with Owners who don’t want us anywhere in the cabin during rest hours, and where are we supposed to go? Strap ourselves into the luggage hold? We never say no to our Owners, so how do we resolve that? This sounds like a disaster in the making. By the looks of the comments left on this page, it’s obvious that NetJets leadership gave almost no thought to the matter of the Flight Attendants or to a whole series of other matters. Shame on them for marketing a plane with promises they could not keep. Shame on all the Executive Vice Presidents who signed off on this just to make themselves look good. We’re not robots, so stop treating us like we are.