Working in the Air: Time Management and Work Intensification Challenges for Workers in Commercial Aviation

In the air transport sector, work of flight attendants is characterised by diversity their temporalities and working hours. The constraints time have impacts on organization other activities social times staff. This text shows hours way they are articulated to temporalities, in a context where cabin crew constantly changing, different temporary teams. paper analyses regulations, definition specific method calculating this chronological dedicated activity. It intensification experienced attendants, fragmentation heterogeneity times. atypical analysed through timetables tensions between professional, family personal Professional non-working that strongly interconnected. Some national particularities highlighted can offer interesting solutions several difficulties elsewhere illustrate ways adjusting or getting around issues attendants. based theoretical empirical research carried out with hostesses, stewards pursers employed regular, low-cost charter airlines Canada European countries.