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(194,797 posts)27. They lied to them when hired. From another post.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=3430990
Unexpected Role: Flight attendants were told they would fly rock bands, sports teams and sun-seekers. Then Global Crossing Airlines started expanding into federal deportation flights.
But as the airline grew, more and more of its planes were filled with migrants in chains. Some flight attendants were livid about it.
Last year, an anonymous GlobalX employee sent an all-caps, all-staff screed that ricocheted around the startup. WHERE IS THE COMPANY GOING? the email asked. YOU SIGNED A 5 YEAR CONTRACT WITH ICE? ... WHAT HAPPENED TO THIS BECOMING A PRESTIGE CHARTER AIRLINE?
A second said his planes air conditioning kept breaking an experience consistent with at least two publicly reported onboard incidents and their lavatories kept breaking, something another flight attendant reported as well. But the planes kept flying. They made us flush with water bottles, he said.
Unexpected Role: Flight attendants were told they would fly rock bands, sports teams and sun-seekers. Then Global Crossing Airlines started expanding into federal deportation flights.
But as the airline grew, more and more of its planes were filled with migrants in chains. Some flight attendants were livid about it.
Last year, an anonymous GlobalX employee sent an all-caps, all-staff screed that ricocheted around the startup. WHERE IS THE COMPANY GOING? the email asked. YOU SIGNED A 5 YEAR CONTRACT WITH ICE? ... WHAT HAPPENED TO THIS BECOMING A PRESTIGE CHARTER AIRLINE?
A second said his planes air conditioning kept breaking an experience consistent with at least two publicly reported onboard incidents and their lavatories kept breaking, something another flight attendant reported as well. But the planes kept flying. They made us flush with water bottles, he said.
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Hekate
Apr 2025
#14
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Midnight Writer
Apr 2025
#28
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Apr 2025
#37
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CrispyQ
Apr 2025
#31
For her a disaster, for the initiators of this, just collateral damage of no consequence. Maybe change airlines.
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Apr 2025
#3
Waiting as the stories emerge of people being wrongly scooped up and taken by
allegorical oracle
Apr 2025
#6
Know it's happened, but this admin keeps denying it -- and there are few innocents
allegorical oracle
Apr 2025
#38
$26 per hour and quit other jobs so their stuck with that shit for five years.
Bengus81
Apr 2025
#20
Flight attendant re: charter company: "They were more worried about losing the contract than about anything else."
chia
Apr 2025
#25