Pros
Stand by travel, getting off work and going for a walk in a different city, you can work unlimited hours.
Cons
Seniority drives everything, so you are either senior enough to hold a good trip or you have to sit on the computer swapping trips for literally days before you can get a decent trip. Delta designs a lot of the domestic trips to be 12 or 13 hour duty days, with 3 and 4 hour sits between each leg, allowing themselves free airport standby employees who are basically unpaid but required to be there. Stand by travel is not a good idea if you really have plans that you have committed to, I usually ended up buying tickets to make sure I got somewhere in time or if I had reservations made, so no money savings there. Lowest pay in airline industry if you adjust for duty day period required per trip, and not just count flight hours. Some days are blocked so you cannot swap off of those days to improve your schedule, yet there is no added incentive pay to make it worth your wile to work the shift. Airplanes have all been reconfigured so that there are additional passenger seats, but no where for flight attendants to sit or eat a meal in privacy for a few minutes. Ergonomically horrible work conditions and equipment. If you have a family or even one friend that you like to see regularly, this job is not for you. If you dont mind endless chit chat with stranger after stranger, you might enjoy this lifestyle.
