The Association of Professional Flight Attendants (APFA) represents the 19,900 US-based flight attendants of American Airlines. APFA union headquarters is located in Euless, Texas.
APFA celebrated its 30th anniversary on May 16, 2007 as the last remaining independent flight attendant union in the nation.
Famous quotes containing the words association, professional, flight and/or attendants:
“An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)
“Never be intimidated when you deal with men. Curse, don’t cry.”
—Anonymous, U.S. professional woman. As quoted in Aspirations and Mentoring in an Academic Environment, ch. 4, by Mary Niles Maack and Joanne Passet (1994)
“When the flight is not high the fall is not heavy.”
—Chinese proverb.
“In public buildings set aside for the care and maintenance of the goods of the middle ages, a staff of civil service art attendants praise all the dead, irrelevant scribblings and scrawlings that, at best, have only historical interest for idiots and layabouts.”
—George Grosz (1893–1959)