How Much Do Flight Attendants Get Paid For Pushing Credit Card Applications?

If you’ve flown before, it’s likely a flight attendant has tried to get you to sign up for a co-branded credit card with a cabin wide announcement and the passing out of an application. Usually they do their best to time this for when you’ve just fallen asleep.

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1 Alaska Airlines
2 American Airlines
3 Spirit
4 United Airlines

Alaska Airlines

Alaska pays a flat $50 per approved application.

American Airlines

The standard break down is as follows:

$50 per approved application.
Bonus structure, based on approvals per month:
- 0-9 approvals: $0 bonus
- 10-24 approvals: $20 bonus per application
- 25+ approvals: $40 bonus per application

Occasionally American Airlines will increase the base rate that is paid to $75 per application, meaning flight attendants can get paid up to $115 per application. The one nice thing about American Airlines in flight apps is that it’s usually possible to get an extra 500 miles when applying as well.

Spirit

Spirit pays a flat $50 per approved application

United Airlines

United plays a flat $50 per approved application

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Gabriel (@guest_741713)

April 1, 2019 00:18

#741713

Spirit pays out $50. My sister-in-law is à flight attendant.

Jon (@guest_741533)

March 31, 2019 08:18

#741533

How does this compare to TPGs rates???

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William Charles(@will)

March 31, 2019 18:00

#741611

Jon

Much lower

Dick Bupkiss (@guest_741400)

March 30, 2019 15:19

#741400

PLEASE do a post on how much bloggers make for pushing credit card applications.
I am not kidding.

This would be a great public service.

March 30, 2019 20:15

#741464

Dick Bupkiss

We’ve done similar posts before

Budget Jetsetter (@guest_741364)

March 30, 2019 10:38

#741364

On a flight with multiple FAs how is it decided who gets to put their referral number on the app? Or are the apps just distributed in a way that they’re evenly distributed?

ZipZapKaZoom (@guest_741354)

March 30, 2019 09:52

#741354

Any DP on how much does Amex pays Delta FAs?

Pbjclimbing (@guest_741244)

March 29, 2019 19:20

#741244

Last summer UA increased the compensation to $100 from $50, have they since lowered it?

MSer (@guest_741203)

March 29, 2019 16:22

#741203

Only been on one flight where CCs were hawked. Didn’t know it was a thing. Maybe sitting front of bus helps avoid this?

Adam (@guest_741202)

March 29, 2019 16:17

#741202

The recent trend of credit card applications in flight has surprised me. I feel like airlines lose a large amount of goodwill by pushing these and annoying passengers, but I guess it’s working for them. Noise cancelling headphones help.