“In addition to their base salary, cabin crew receive payments and allowances to recognise additional responsibilities, time away from home, and longer duties. They also receive further allowances to support them while they are away from home.”  

Conditions faced at work

Meanwhile, the union is also calling out the conditions faced by international cabin crew members amid “preventable issues” at the airline, such as lack of catering, missing equipment, inoperative seats, broken cabin features, and higher-than-usual cancellations.  

“Flight attendants, as the face of the airline, are constantly having to work around these issues and apologise to passengers who have paid premium fares to fly with the national carrier.”  

“The company is sending a clear message to those who represent its frontline – that they are undervalued, despite carrying the weight of the operation every day,” Craig said as quoted by the New Zealand Herald.  

Dines said they have received the formal strike notices from the FAANZ and E tÅ«. Â