| Flight Attendants Helping Flight Attendants
"Let
us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in
awareness"
-James Thurber
Once our rituals
are complete, as we turn into the airport parking lot,
thoughts begin to turn to what our trip will entail in the
hours ahead. We begin to curiously contemplate who will be in
my crew, what position will I be assigned, will this trip run
as scheduled, what plans can I make for the RON, still finding
satisfaction, that as a flight attendant the opportunity to
experience the wonderful differences that our world offers to
us still exists.
A few weeks ago,
as I attended our annual recurrent class, it was reminded to
all of us that our chosen profession has dramatically altered
since 9/11. One thought kept surfacing during the course of
that day~" just what makes any of us want to actively
stay in a profession that has challenged every one of us over
the past several years?"
Human behavior
researchers often refererance the "flight or fight"
syndrome. We have chosen to fight. In years past, our
profession as flight attendants has been constantly
challenged, but nothing with to magnitude of 9/11.
The weeks which
followed 9/11, each of us found our strength, to show the
world that our airplanes would fly, and that we, the flight
attendants, would work in those airplanes to ensure that our
passengers would have a safe, comfortable journey wherever
their travels would take them.
As we approach
the anniversary of 9/11, let us each take a moment to honor
both our fellow flight attendants, as well as ourselves, as we
continue to strive daily to make our airplanes the safest in
our free world.
USA MEC EAP
Chairperson
Deborah A. McCormick
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