Pros
For now you can fly free on Delta Airlines - However - The pay is so low you can't afford to go anywhere (hotel, rental car, food). The pay is so low you have to work 80 hrs per week to barely make ends meet, so your always working not flying. You are low on the priority list so good luck getting out of a hub, especially hub to hub good luck with that. Where I work the management team is always threatening to suspend your flight benefits, it's like I can't afford to nor do I have the time to use these benefits.
Cons
Low pay, second class treatment, the management doesn’t have a clue about how to actually turn a flight; yet they walk around with a God complex. High turnover, so you always work short staff. High turnover so you always have to deal with the errors of new workers. Unaffordable health care insurance. Poor work environment, low worker moral. If you work at an airport like mines DGS has multiple mainline contracts so you are expected to learn and know multiple airline systems and keep up with multiple mainline training schedules even though you don’t receive flight benefits on those mainline carriers. Yet for the public you are expected to smile and represent that carrier like everything is peachy. You get to do all this for an ultra low wage. Unlike ground handlers PSA, AWAC, Express Jet etc DGS is not an airline so opportunity is limited, you can never work your way up to flight attendant, Pilot, Flight Dispatcher, Mechanic etc.
