The airline industry has a long history of developing and applying optimization approaches to their myriad of scheduling problems, including designing flight schedules that maximize profitability while satisfying rules related to aircraft maintenance; generating cost-minimizing, feasible work schedules for pilots and flight attendants; and identifying implementable, lowcost changes to aircraft ...

BACKGROUND Potential health effects of the indoor environment in office buildings and aircraft have generated considerable concern in recent years. AIMS To analyse the prevalence of self reported respiratory symptoms and illnesses in flight attendants (FAs) and schoolteachers. METHODS Data were collected as part of a study of reproductive health among female FAs. The prevalences of work rel...

In service organizations such as airlines, flight attendants one of the components that play a direct role in serving needs passengers during flights are required to work independently without supervision and have confidence carrying out job demands since they accepted employees. The agreement formed between attendant airline is initial motivation trust given by employees known psychological co...

After 9/11, new security duties were instituted at many U.S. air carriers and existing safety and security duties received increased emphasis. Concurrently, in-flight services were changed and in many cases, cabin crews were reduced. This article examines the post-9/11 conflict between passenger service and the timely performance of safety and security duties at 1 major U.S. air carrier. In-fli...