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SuccessGen Z can skip college and still earn big: Here are the top 15 highest-paying jobs that don’t require a degree
By Emma BurleighDecember 29, 2025
A table holds a memorial with photos and flowers to remember those who died on the American Airlines flight that collided with a Black Hawk helicopter
LifestyleWife of a flight attendant killed in the American Airlines-helicopter crash says he was put on the plane after a last-minute schedule change: ‘We believe he was supposed to be on that flight’
By Jeffrey Collins, Erik Verduzco and The Associated PressFebruary 6, 2025
FeaturesSouthwest plans to cut flights to Atlanta to save money and its unions are unhappy
By David Koenig and The Associated PressSeptember 26, 2024
CompaniesAmerican Airlines offers to double some flight attendants’ pay over 5 years as it works to avoid strike  
By Eva RoytburgJuly 26, 2024
American Airlines flight attendants picketing
FinanceAmerican Airlines flight attendants make just $27,000 to start. A new union contract could change that
By Mary Schlangenstein and BloombergJuly 20, 2024
Bette Nash
Lifestyle‘Fly high, Bette’: This 88-year-old started her flight attendant career in 1957 and never officially retired
By The Associated PressMay 28, 2024
FinanceA law firm tried to blame a 9-year-old girl for not noticing an iPhone camera a former American Airlines flight attendant secretly taped to a toilet seat
By The Associated PressMay 24, 2024
The starting salary for a new flight attendant is about $27,000 per year, which is just a fraction of American Airlines CEO’s $31.4 million earned last year–an amount 1,162 times greater than the earnings of a new attendant.
FinanceThe starting salary for a new American Airlines flight attendant is low enough to qualify for food stamps in some states
By Sunny NagpaulMay 21, 2024
SuccessSouthwest flight attendants are now the highest-paid in the industry thanks to a historic pay raise—’This is the least they deserve’
By Chloe BergerMay 1, 2024
FinanceFlight attendants at Southwest Airlines seal deal for 22% pay hikes next month
By The Associated PressApril 24, 2024
a picture of jens ritter standing inside a Lufthansa flight
LeadershipLufthansa’s CEO tried being a flight attendant—but there was one challenge he wasn’t ready for
By Prarthana PrakashAugust 23, 2023
A Southwest Airlines plane.
PoliticsFlight attendant fired for sending anti-abortion messages to her union’s president receives $5.3 million jury award
By Chris MorrisJuly 15, 2022
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Travel & LeisureFlight Attendants Ask Public to Join Demonstrations if Government Shuts Down Again
By Brittany ShootFebruary 12, 2019
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HealthFlight Attendants Have a Higher Risk of Certain Types of Cancers. Here Are a Few Possible Reasons Why
By Hallie DetrickJune 26, 2018
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In-Flight Sexual Assaults Are Increasing ‘At an Alarming Rate’
By Carson KesslerJune 21, 2018
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