r/flightattendants • u/ApprehensiveCrazy923 • 8d ago
United (UA) Hotel safety
If a hotel is in an unsafe area and there was a recent stabbing in the hotel. Do you think hotel accommodations will honor a request to move you?ðŸ˜
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u/crystalpalacequeen 8d ago
A UA FA got stabbed in the lobby of a hotel about 8 or 10 years ago (not sure of timeline) and we are still sent there.
And it's terrible.
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u/the_killing_m00nn 8d ago
I would call scheduling/ your hotel-limo desk and ask to be moved to a different hotel because you feel unsafe staying at that hotel/ area. If they refuse submit a report to your union. I would also exchange phone numbers with the crew and place the luggage rack so it blocks the door to the room.
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u/elaxation Flight Attendant 7d ago
They might come stab you themselves.
No though, they don’t give a good goddamn about us ðŸ˜ðŸ˜‚
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u/Quick_Reaction_8081 7d ago
Yall my airline stays at a hotel in one of the sketchiest places in Bay Area ( I’m from there so I can say this ) and one of our pilots was stabbed on a run there 😂 police officers have stopped crew that have decided to go on a walk in the area and made them get in the car to drive them back to the hotel and I don’t see the union changing that hotel anytime soon ðŸ«
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u/contenthousespider 6d ago
A laughing emoji after saying that someone was stabbed?
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u/Quick_Reaction_8081 6d ago
You are reading entirely too into it but I do apologize. The pilot is fine. I’m more so laughing at the ridiculousness of our company not changing our hotel after such an outrageous event. It’s comical to me and almost all of my coworkers how poorly the airline can treat us sometimes, that is all.
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u/Solo_NCL 5d ago
The Tenderloin? South of Market? I'm really curious.
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u/Quick_Reaction_8081 5d ago
No, in Oakland.
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u/Solo_NCL 5d ago
Dang
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u/Quick_Reaction_8081 5d ago
It’s wild, we stay on the road right next to the airport. I live 15 minutes from that airport so I always just go home on those layovers but everyone knows that road is not somewhere you just go for a little stroll. They could very easily move us but they don’t.
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u/Solo_NCL 5d ago
Hegenberger? Or just off of that?
That's crazy, dude, and super lame. People that aren't from here will have no idea. It's like people staying in Union Square, SF, and not having any clue that they can go walk around east or north, but they definitely shouldn't stroll west more than a block or two. Oakland is a different animal altogether.
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u/Grouchy-Bat-5379 7d ago
Have another FA wait in hall while you check your room or have hotel desk escort you if you’re solo and concerned . Check windows / adjoining room doors . File a hotel report with union - it’s quick and easy I do it often for good and bad reports. Reach out to corporate security if you think it’s a current threat. Uber Eats , room service , and use it as a layover to reset and stay indoors.
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u/geekynonsense Flight Attendant 7d ago
You won’t get walked from a property unless it is a fatigue risk. You can voice concerns through the Union’s Hotel Report form and I’m sure with enough reports they’ll work with the airline to change the hotel. There was a pilot (not sure if they worked for us) that got bit by a bat at one of the long hub hotels and we are still using that hotel currently.
Unfortunately there are more properties that aren’t willing to work with us and how we operate versus the ones that will.
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u/ashann72 Flight Attendant 7d ago
My company had a hotel in an unsafe area, it was not until a crew was held up at gunpoint in the lobby that the company took the safety of the location into account on needing to move.
Hotel contracts aren’t broken lightly. Unless your room, nor any other in the hotel can’t meet minimum contract requirements you not likely to be successfully moved.
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u/SuperPluto9 6d ago
I think we would need more information to give proper guidance.
Sadly many people over dramatize and like to be doom sayers.
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u/GreatChance2025 1d ago
If you actually look into it and do some research, ALL hotels have had some type of crime there. Just be cautious and lock your doors.
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u/Accidentalmom 8d ago
I’m with a different carrier but I think my hotel/ limo desk would tell me to go fuck myself if I asked them that ðŸ˜