Your AFA

When you join AFA you join hands with 50,000 Flight Attendants from 20 airlines throughout our industry. In our union, we work together, amplifying our voices to lift the standards for all Flight Attendants.

No one knows your job and your issues like other Flight Attendants. That’s why the Association of Flight Attendants believes we need to unite in one union focused exclusively on Flight Attendants to take full advantage of the leverage we have as a union of Flight Attendants, by Flight Attendants and for Flight Attendants. Flight […]

The first Flight Attendants, called Sky Girls, began blazing the trail for our profession in the 1930s, not long after airlines began shuttling passengers across the country. In the early days of our profession, these stewardesses fit a very narrow description: young and single women who were registered nurses and met strict age, height, weight […]

For more nearly 70 years, AFA has represented Flight Attendants on the job, on Capitol Hill, before federal agencies and at the bargaining table. With AFA, you are guaranteed that your voice will be heard at every level of the union, and your interests will be represented with your employer and with government officials. AFA […]

Today, AFA has grown to become the world’s largest organization of Flight Attendants, representing nearly 60,000 Flight Attendants at 18 airlines.  Our goal, as defined in AFA’s Constitution and Bylaws, is to bring the benefits of unity and legally binding contracts to every Flight Attendant through AFA. We are truly stronger together. No airline management […]