Should U.S. Flight Attendants Be Paid During Boarding?

Flight Attendants Be Paid During Boarding? Additionally, the most common time for air rage is during boarding, and many flight attendants have recounted harrowing and aggressive incidents, including screaming, shoving, kicking, and spitting on crew members. Most U.S. airlines don’t pay their flight attendants until the airplane door closes, even though plane boarding is one of the most stressful parts of their job. Things have gotten so bad that the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) offers flight attendants, free self-defense classes. Change.org has almost 100,000 signatures for a petition for U.S. flight attendants to be paid during boarding.