Food Delivery Pilots! Flight Attendant Vendors! China's Aviation Industry Is Collapsing!

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Food Delivery Pilots! Flight Attendant Vendors! China's Aviation Industry Is Collapsing!
Food delivery pilots, flight attendant vendors. China's aviation industry is collapsing.
The airline company cut wages, forcing pilots to deliver food and flight attendants and ground
staff to set up stalls. This sounds like a movie plot, but it is a true portrayal of Xian Xingfu
Airlines. Former flight attendant, do you want to buy a drink? Is it delicious? It tastes good.
Former flight attendant, my previous job was a respectable one in the eyes of adults and parents.
Suddenly, I came to set up a stall. In fact, I was afraid of meeting acquaintances at the
beginning. Young people should be more open-minded and do what they like. It's not shameful.
The career of a flight attendant looks glamorous, but many flight attendants have said that it is
not as good as the outside world perceives, and the salary is not high. Indeed, many airlines
are suffering from heavy losses. Xian's own airline, Xingfu Airlines,
was previously exposed for long-term delays in employee wages and social security.
Some pilots have to make a living by delivering food and driving for Didi. To attract customers,
airlines have sharply reduced the prices of air tickets in many places in the mainland,
selling them at bargain prices. Today, we will talk about related topics.
Recently, news that many netizens in mainland China grabbed tickets from Chengdu to Beijing
on a certain travel platform for only three RMB has attracted attention.
In the eyes of the public, being a flight attendant is an enviable job, where you can
fly into the blue sky and travel around the world, and the salary and benefits are also good.
But this flight attendant resigned, saying that this job is very harmful to people's health.
I quit after flying for about four years. After the epidemic, my income was too low,
about 3,000 yuan a month. I thought it would be better to be a cleaner,
who can make 4,000 to 5,000 yuan a month. Many flight attendants had to do part-time jobs,
such as modeling, micro-businesses, etc. Just like the flight attendant of China Southern
Airlines who shot a commercial for her underwear in the bathroom. The career of flight attendants
is actually glamorous on the outside. Our usual work is actually to serve meals, clean toilets,
move boxes, and then be a vent for passengers. In fact, the values of our circle are very bad.
For example, once our leader told us in a meeting,
why do those rich people like you? Isn't it because of your uniform?
There are many people who are younger and prettier than you. Isn't it because you are
a flight attendant? What is special about you after taking off this uniform?
You should know that you don't want to do this job, but there are many people who want to do it.
My three views were completely destroyed after listening to it,
but there are still people who are self-disciplined and can only keep themselves out of trouble.
Most people want to find a rich man as soon as possible to escape the fire pit.
These two were also flight attendants before. The girl on the right worked in China Southern
Airlines for three years. She said that sometimes the company's practices are unacceptable to
employees. Let me tell you a case from my own experience. Doesn't every flight attendant in
the airline have a name tag? It's right here. It stipulates that the distance from the shoulder
to the name tag is 10 centimeters. Because we had to wear aprons when serving meals,
we had to take off the name tag and pin it on the apron because we couldn't wear two name tags at
the same time. But during the meal serving process, everyone was very busy in such a short
time, and I didn't have time to check the height. Anyway, I wore it crookedly that day, and the
height was not high enough, so it was checked. Then they said my name tag was not qualified,
and they gave me a rectification order. And I was rectified for a month. I had to carry a notebook
with me during that month, which meant every time I took a flight, others knew I had made a mistake.
I flew very carefully that month, and it was really frustrating. I wanted to cry while pulling
my suitcase. This was also one of the reasons I resigned later. You can't make mistakes in an
airline. Even a small mistake makes you feel like a sinner for eternity. This girl is named Xiaobei,
and she was a flight attendant for four years. During the pandemic, her income was too low,
so she resigned. She said everyone thinks flight attendants are glamorous and earn a lot,
but that's not the reality. When times are bad, flight attendants earn only 3,000 yuan a month.
When times are good, they earn at most about 10,000 yuan. Our colleagues often joked, saying,
we flight attendants work day and night. How can we ever get proper sleep? In aviation,
if you have an early flight, you need to get up at 3 a.m. to put on makeup. If it's a full day
flight, you might not finish until one or two in the morning, then drag your big suitcase home
alone. One of the factors contributing to airline losses is competition from high-speed rail,
but the real reason behind it is insufficient demand in the Chinese market. In the past,
people would travel regardless of how expensive the tickets were. Now, they only travel when
tickets are cheap. Hello, everyone. I'm a 40-year-old former model who was eliminated
from the industry and is about to start delivering food. I've been busy applying for my health
certificate these past few days, and today I finally started working. I'm a little excited.
In fact, I tried a few orders over the past two days to familiarize myself with the delivery
process. Except for the cold weather, I think it's manageable. Of course, it's much worse than
before. I'm starting to take orders. I'll deliver my first order of fried pancakes now. Many people
don't believe I'm delivering food, and some even leave nasty comments online. But for me,
I don't expect to make much money from food delivery. I just hope to cover my living costs
with part-time work. It's fine if it helps me afford three meals a day. The moment I step out
and deliver food, I earn money, which is much better than staying idle at home. The Chinese
economy is in trouble, and unemployment is becoming increasingly serious, especially among
middle-aged men, creating enormous pressure on families. After being laid off, a 38-year-old man
in Beijing secretly delivered takeout without telling his wife. When she found out, their
conversation went viral online. According to reports, the man graduated from a 211 university,
a group of prestigious universities recognized by the Ministry of Education of the Communist Party
of China. In the video, a woman cleaning the bathroom at home found a crumpled piece of white
paper under the bed. After unfolding it, she was shocked. It was a layoff notice with her husband's
name and the company's official seal clearly printed on it. She realized her husband had been
unemployed. What confused her was that her husband had been going out early and coming home late
every day since that day, showing no signs of anything unusual. Was he deliberately hiding this?
After dinner, her husband sat in front of the computer as usual. The wife approached him with
the layoff notice. Wife, do you still have to go to work? What about the children's expenses at the
end of the month, our rent, various bills, and your debts? Husband, I'm delivering food. Wife, let me ask you,
can you manage this alone? Husband, yes. The wife hugged her husband and cried.
