Covid in the sky Part 1
A Flight Attendants Perspective . The beginning of Covid : Going to work felt as if I was stepping into the twilight zone. The highway was empty; the parking lot bare with only airport employee vehicles. We no longer had to park at the employee lot because there were no more shuttle drivers to take us to the airport. This was just one of the many jobs lost last year. It was as if the airport became silent overnight. Like turning off a light switch, one day it was busy, full of wide-eyed travelers and the next it was an eerie ghost town. Looking back it was probably the safest place to work at the time, but when I walked the terminals and heard only the echo of my clicking heels throughout the airport it became the place I least wanted to be. VTO (Voluntary Time Off) was being offered anywhere from 1-6 months almost anyone who opt’d in was being approved. Unfortunately holding no seniority a...
