Corinth2103
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And another reason why no one ever really wants to retire...can you blame them? Another incentive is the military charters...or at least the Frankfurt-Kuwait City portion. The senior mamas deadhead over to Frankfurt..layover waiting for the more junior folks to bring the soldiers over from a different base here in the US...they meet us at Rhein Main and continue with the soldiers on the Kuwait "turn". They usually will bring another load of soldiers back to FRA, where they hand them off to us and then we head back to the US. They'll head back to the hotel and layover again before deadheading back to the US. That can average roughly anywhere from 22-25 hours for them in pay just by doing the deadheading and the Kuwait "turn"...and you get the added bonus of working with the soldiers on board where it can be one big party, especially on the way home. The US Government has that plane catered to the brim with food, snacks, etc for everyone including the crew.
One senior lady told me that as long as these military trips are available, she'll do them until they have to carry her limp body from the jump seat. The most "junior" f/a on the last military charter was around #200...the most senior was around #25.
Tim
