Delta Air Lines will begin paying cabin crews during boarding, a change that is expected to increase their wages by several thousand dollars a year.
Highlights
- Delta Air Lines will start paying flight attendants during the time that passengers are boarding.
- That’s a first for a major U.S.
- airline and it comes on top of pay raises for flight attendants.
- The Association of Flight Attendants, which has been gearing up an organizing campaign at Delta for more than two years, took credit for the boarding pay.
- The rate of pay during boarding is 50% of regular pay rates.
- Delta said the change will start June 2 on all flights.