American Flight Attendants Get 0.3% Profit Sharing — $150 Right As The Winter Storm Leaves Them Sleeping In Airports


Flight attendants at American Airlines are furious as $150 profit sharing gets announced – while cabin crew at Delta get four weeks of pay – as many are stuck sleeping in airports, stranded during the winter storm meltdown of operations.

American Airlines did essentially didn’t make any money in 2025. While they earned just over $100 million, it was a 0.002% margin. So there’s not much profit to share.

While Delta announced $1.3 billion in profit sharing – and this was lower than it has been – that’s still 8.9% of pay (or about four weeks of extra pay). And United’s profit sharing comes out to 4.5% of wages. Their profit sharing formula is lower than Delta’s.

American has agreed to contracts that largely pay out profit sharing like Delta does, but they have more employees to generate that profit and less profit. So profit sharing amounts to 0.3% of wages. A $50,000 employee gets $150. As shared by aviation watchdog JonNYC:

Flight attendants are furious. After all they won increased profit sharing in their 2024 contract! In their previous agreement they eschewed profit sharing in favor of higher wages for precisely this reason, but that turned out to be unprofitable as they eyed enviously at non-union Delta. Of course, former CEO Doug Parker said that flight attendants shouldn’t receive profit-sharing at all because they don’t influence profit.

Meanwhile, with the operational meltdown from this week’s winter storm, flight crews are reportedly stuck sleeping in airports as cancellations overwhelm the hotel/limo desk and available rooms.

THe flight attendants union said flight attendants were stuck sleeping at airports over the summer. In 2021 American flight attendants were stuck sleeping in airports and again in 2022. This happens during irregular operations – usually bad weather – but the airline is supposed to staff up to ensure rooms are made available to their employees.

There’s an app they can use to book a room instead of calling, and when they can’t get a room through the vendor they can book themselves and get reimbursed later (provided they have a credit card). They shouldn’t have to do this, but there are self-serve approaches available. And crew are fearful of booking their own accommodations because they worry they won’t be paid back.

American has said that their outsourced vendor for this has staffed up its call center though clearly not enough.

They also promised that their own employees would back up the hotel and limo desk, too, to make sure flight attendants could get help. They were also supposed to pre-purchase extra rooms at hubs and heavy layover cities, willing to eat he cost of unused rooms, to make sure they had a place for flight attendants to sleep.

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