How does airline reserve pay work?

As a reserve flight attendant, you will have a monthly guarantee. A monthly guarantee is the number of hours you are guaranteed to be paid. For example, if your reserve guarantee is 78 hours per month with 12 days off, you will be paid for 78 hours even if you end up working less than 78 hours, with 12 days off.



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Sitting reserve Flight Attendants are eligible for reserve until they are in the top 35% seniority in their base. New Flight Attendants will most likely be on reserve for 10+ years at any base, but they do not have to sit reserve every schedule period.

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Depending on the airline, new attendants can expect to work at least 18 reserve days and remain on a standby schedule for a few months or years, depending on the airline or home city.

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Emirates, Qatar Airways, Etihad Airways, and Singapore Airlines are commercial airlines that pay the highest pilot salaries.

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Airline employees can allow family or friends to fly on their airline with a buddy pass. At American, we are allowed 16 one-way buddy passes a year (or 8 round trip tickets). However, these buddy passes are not free and come with many considerations you need to know about before signing up for a 'free' flight.

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The flight attendant will continue to accrue per diem even after the flight arrives at a layover and the flight attendant has checked into their hotel room for the night.

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Flight attendants frequently have between 12 and 18 days off per month and over a years time, average about 156 days off.

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Flight attendants frequently have between 12 and 18 days off per month and over a years time, average about 156 days off. (The average office worker has 96 days off and, works eight-hour days.) Of course, days off are not necessarily at home, buy many flight attendants use these days as mini vacations.

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