Pros
-Amazing co-workers - the Inflight Teammates, GSTs and Pilots you see at work are funny, dynamic and really make the work worth it -Interesting passengers -work for the "cool" airline -decent vacation benefits -good hotels on layovers -passengers love VX. They don't come onto the plane with years worth of "chips-on-shoulders", IE, they don't have a long standing hatred of flying on Virgin. It makes our job easier.
Cons
-zero flexibility -no accountability from management or scheduling for "bending" the rules -favoritism -no trust on their part (requiring sick notes for every single sick call? puh-leeze) -terrible, awful maternity policy -bases are in very expensive cities: JFK, LAX and SFO, and the pay doesn't bode well for living there. Basically, you have to have a ton of roommates or someone else supporting you if you want to live in base. Otherwise, you need to commute, which is tough since VX has no commuting policy. -they don't consider this a "career"; that's why they offer a "career choice buy-out" every year to senior flight attendants, it's basically, here's 20k, go get yourself a real career because we don't want you here anymore......