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They used to be paid really well and only hired the best of the best.

Eastern didn't mess around. Half of this town was employed by them. The unions put a big squeeze on them.

@The Cookster Ive been a FA and have also worked Onboard Services for Amtrak, Amtrak pays much better than Airlines pay FAs

@@robertbauers2210 About 5 years ago I applied to amtrak for assistant conductor. I didn't pass the written exam. I never tried again. Yea, it is good money.

In 1986, People Express offered me $17,500 for their cross-utilized entry level inflight/ground front line employee role they referred to as “customer service managers”. That was more than decent money at the time. They were non union at the time and were just a few months away from being acquired by Texas Air.

My first flight as a kid was on Eastern and I got to tour the cockpit,sit in the co pilots seat,feel the controlls and I earned my first set of wings. I was about 7 or 8 and it was one of the things that made me become a pilot. I managed to solo at 16 and had my PPL before I learned that the Navy would put me through school and then pay me to fly cool jets. But I was disappointed that I wasn't able to fly the F14 and had to settle for the Hornet instead.

@@southjerseysound7340 I grew up in Miami, and Eastern (The Wings of Man) was a wonderful airline. In my neighborhood, your parents worked for one of these two: "The University of Miami" or Eastern Airlines". I loved Eastern!

Hubjeep vhs, it is out of print. This is a true copy of the episode

That is quite the snotbox 👃

They belonged to Texas Air anyway.