A heck of a lot of people usually want to become American Airlines flight attendants.
“It’s a lower acceptance rate than Harvard by a long way,” as former American Airlines CEO Doug Parker put it a few years ago. “We get the best of the best.”
At the time, he was probably right. Before the pandemic, American Airlines had something like 500,000 applications on hand for 2,000 flight attendant openings.
Since then, however, the whole airline industry has been upended, and at both American…