As cabin crew, we spend half our month on the road. For many of us, this means countless stays at airport hotels.
CUPE airline locals across Canada have negotiated contract language with recognized hotel committees. These committees are made up of cabin crew like us who get a say in where we stay. They are tasked with ensuring crew have clean, safe hotel spaces with the necessary amenities to take care of ourselves on the road.
Hotel committees can even advocate for things like complimentary breakfast, discounts at the hotel restaurant, and quieter room blocks. All these things add up to make life away from home a little easier.
CUPE airline locals even have negotiated language about where crews stay on long layovers. Is the layover over 16 hours? Then Air Canada FAs stay downtown.
For WestJet crew, hotels must be a maximum 20-minute drive from the airport, unless the layover is over 18 hours, in which case they stay downtown.
If we’re going to spend hours of our month on the road, we should have a say in where we stay. With our union, we will!
With a union hotel committee, we will be consulted, and we will be part of the process of determining where cabin crew get to cool off after a long day in the air and on the go.
Sign your union card today and let’s get one step closer to forming our own hotel committee.