Today’s aviation industry is a 24/7 operation that produces a variety of challenges for cabin crew members including extended duty periods, highly variable schedules, frequent time zone changes, and increased passenger loads. The present content analysis study was conducted to provide a quantitative review of flight attendant comments. This report corroborate and emphasize the main issues of concern for flight attendants: long duty days, length of layovers, long delays, breaks, and nutrition, that has been known in other surveys. It has a special interest for AMES’s who care flight attendants

 

**Flight Attendant Fatigue: A Quantitative Review of Comments
    DOT/FAA/AM-11/16 .office of Aerospace Medicine. Washington – October 2011-
   Avers KB, Nei D, King JS, Thomas S, Roberts C, Banks JO, Nesthus TE