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You are now able to tip your flight attendants

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You are now able to tip your flight attendants

Frontier flight attendants will now accept tips. Although the company encourages it, their union disagrees and just wants a living wage. This is really getting out of hand.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles ... pting-tips
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No thanks

Already cut back on restaurants because of how ridiculously overpriced it is now
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Here's my tip to air waitresses: If you don't like what you do or what you're being paid, find a different airline to work for or a different vocation.
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So Airline company can pay or keep them at lower wage and slide the responsibility to the customer to tip them so the FA can making a living from their job?
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Conquistador wrote: Here's my tip to air waitresses: If you don't like what you do or what you're being paid, find a different airline to work for or a different vocation.
Or if customers don't want to tip,they can fly another airline well or not at all

No different than not wanting to tip at restaurant, just don't eat out lots of choices for customers

Same for cruising and etc
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The only word I have to say is no.
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MP3_SKY wrote: So Airline company can pay or keep them at lower wage and slide the responsibility to the customer to tip them so the FA can making a living from their job?
StatsGuy wrote: Or if customers don't want to tip,they can fly another airline well or not at all

No different than not wanting to tip at restaurant, just don't eat out lots of choices for customers

Same for cruising and etc

Can I ask what they make??

As I know servers make a rate thats less than minimum wage as they depend on tips.
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lilmikey wrote: Can I ask what they make??

As I know servers make a rate thats less than minimum wage as they depend on tips.
Server min wage is a tad lower than other jobs but reality is, no server is going to work if they just make "min" wage. A good server much like a good employee in any other profession can make good money

Servers also typically need to tip out a portion of their sales to barback, kitchen and hostess
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StatsGuy wrote: Or if customers don't want to tip,they can fly another airline well or not at all

No different than not wanting to tip at restaurant, just don't eat out lots of choices for customers

Same for cruising and etc
I've never flown Frontier and this kind of nonsense certainly doesn't entice me. As such, I already fly numerous other airlines where flight attendants aren't standing at the door with their hand out as I depart. IOW, your advice is pretty simple to follow yet pretty silly to start with.
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Conquistador wrote: I've never flown Frontier and this kind of nonsense certainly doesn't entice me. As such, I already fly numerous other airlines where flight attendants aren't standing at the door with their hand out as I depart. IOW, your advice is pretty simple to follow yet pretty silly to start with.
Yup,isn't it great to have choice?

Clearly frontier is looking to offer lower base fares and have customers complement the pay of the FAs, I'm surprised it took so long as they're a LCC. Customers already have to pay to check in with a staff (vs online ), so seems like just moving to paying for FA on a pay per use basis. That's even better than a tip model imo
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This is a bit too far especially if you get the flight crew that just sits around in the galley hiding out from passengers. Give me a break.
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I don't particularly like the thought of tipping, or not tipping, someone who is in charge of my safety in case of emergency.

Or perhaps it would be better put as: "I don't like the thought of someone in charge of my safety in case of emergency being so low-paid as to require my tipping them to make ends meet."
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dealguy2 wrote: This is a bit too far especially if you get the flight crew that just sits around in the galley hiding out from passengers. Give me a break.
Then don't tip?

Besides it's a LCC, they serve you nothing and have no interaction with you unless you are ordering something which all costs money
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wudtsilake wrote: I don't particularly like the thought of tipping, or not tipping, someone who is in charge of my safety in case of emergency.

Or perhaps it would be better put as: "I don't like the thought of someone in charge of my safety in case of emergency being so low-paid as to require my tipping them to make ends meet."
This

Or worse yet have someone give preference to the person who tipped them well in an Emergency situation vs someone who did not

Just plain wrong thinking IMO on the part of Airline Mgmt

But then again the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer thanks to this now universal search for THE CHEAPEST mentality

Cheap is not always the best choice. Period

Have not flown Frontier... but they certainly now by this move have made me make sure they go onto my DO NOT FLY LIST
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wudtsilake wrote: I don't particularly like the thought of tipping, or not tipping, someone who is in charge of my safety in case of emergency.

Or perhaps it would be better put as: "I don't like the thought of someone in charge of my safety in case of emergency being so low-paid as to require my tipping them to make ends meet."
100% agree with this. if tipping is not banned by whatever agency that regulates this, it should be.
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I wonder if it'll eventually come to the female flight attendants at Frontier dressing provocatively to increase tips, just like bartenders. Wrong image to put on yourself Frontier.
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Tipping FA’s is nothing new. When I was working as FA in the early/mid 2000s we were often tipped by business travellers / repeat passengers especially in J. I have personally handed a tip to cabin crew on European airlines on rare occasions in J when they go above and beyond.

In economy and especially on-board a flight like Frontier the tipping culture will never work. I doubt even meal service/drink service is standard these days on a Frontier flight. So exactly what are you tipping for?
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BrunetteGirl wrote: Tipping FA’s is nothing new. When I was working as FA in the early/mid 2000s we were often tipped by business travellers / repeat passengers especially in J. I have personally handed a tip to cabin crew on European airlines on rare occasions in J when they go above and beyond.

In economy and especially on-board a flight like Frontier the tipping culture will never work. I doubt even meal service/drink service is standard these days on a Frontier flight. So exactly what are you tipping for?
To support their wage so the airline doens't have to of course.

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