Bases, pay, training, hiring windows and the interview process — from dated sources.
Last updated August 2026 — dated facts carry their own as-of dates below.
PSA Airlines is a wholly owned American Airlines Group subsidiary flying 100% as American Eagle on an all-CRJ dual-class fleet of roughly 151 aircraft (~91 CRJ900s, ~60 CRJ700s), with its headquarters newly relocated from Dayton to Charlotte (completed Q1 2026). PSA flies one brand for one partner — the simplest operating story of the big regionals: American's product, PSA's paycheck, no brand-switching by base.
For applicants, PSA's signature is speed. Hiring is rolling — a standing "Flight Attendant Trainee" requisition plus an active recruiting-event circuit (Charlotte open house and a multi-city recruiting tour), with published recruiter contacts (FAinfo@psaairlines.com). Glassdoor's aggregate time-to-hire for PSA FAs is 19 days — quick, middle of the pack among the regionals in our research set — and FA candidates report conditional offers issued on the spot, the same day as the in-person round. That's candidate-report intel, not a company SLA and not a timed guarantee, but it makes PSA among the fastest FA pipelines documented anywhere.
Honest framing: this is a realistic first flight attendant job. The published start rate is $27.06 per flight hour — but a new three-year contract (ratified per AFA, spring 2026) added an immediate 10% wage increase plus boarding pay, so the effective current package is meaningfully better than that stale published figure; get the actual rate sheet at offer. Either way, expect first-year gross in the low-$30ks range versus Delta's roughly $45,000–60,000. The trade: a door that's open year-round, four weeks of paid training, AAG profit sharing, and near-instant interview reps.
No FA flow to American. PSA's famous "guaranteed flow to American" is a pilot program — there is no flight attendant flow-through to American from PSA or any AA regional, and FA content borrowing pilot flow, DEC-bonus, or $100+/hour figures is contaminated. Everyone asks; that's the answer.
Baseline requirements, verbatim-sourced from psaairlines.com (checked August 2026): "at least 20 years of age" (a year younger than SkyWest or mainline — same as Republic); a "valid, unexpired U.S. Passport or a Foreign Passport with applicable VISAs" plus the right to work in the US; "high school diploma or GED equivalent" and "at least two years of customer-facing service experience" — or a college degree, which substitutes for the experience requirement; and the ability to "read, write, and speak English fluently." No bilingual program was found — PSA's network is domestic plus short-haul international under the American Eagle brand.
PSA has five FA crew bases per psaairlines.com (checked August 2026): Charlotte (CLT), Dayton (DAY), Washington DC (DCA), Dallas/Fort Worth (DFW), and Philadelphia (PHL) — mirroring the pilot base map. CVG appears in some third-party lists; it is a maintenance station, not a published crew base — reject it. And note Dayton remains a crew base even though HQ moved to Charlotte — don't over-rotate on the relocation.
New hires are assigned to one of the five bases; reserve expectations are not published, so treat any hold-time claim you read as anecdote. PSA's small base count and heavy Charlotte flying make CLT the seniority center of gravity. Base-assignment flexibility is part of what the interview screens for — walk in ready to say yes to all five.
Worth having ready if it comes up: PSA operated Flight 5342, the January 29, 2025 mid-air collision at DCA. The NTSB's final report (adopted January 27, 2026) placed probable cause on the FAA's helicopter-route placement; the PSA crew was not faulted. If the topic arises, handle it factually and without speculation — composed, accurate handling reads as maturity, and getting the facts wrong reads terribly.
PSA FAs are paid per flight hour. First-year math should use a monthly-guarantee convention around 75 hours — though PSA's exact guarantee figure wasn't captured in our source pass; verify before relying on it. Numbers below are as of August 2026:
Reserve reality: expect reserve, holidays worked, and base-assignment flexibility. No published FA seniority-progression data exists — anything specific you read is anecdote.
PSA Airlines requires flight attendants to be at least 20, hold a high school diploma or GED, and stand taller than 5 feet 2 inches and no taller than 6 feet, measured with shoes on.
Requirements change between hiring windows — confirm them on the PSA Airlines careers page before you apply.
Data compiled from airline careers pages, union publications, industry press, and candidate-reported interview intel — wave-dependent facts carry as-of dates. Candidate reports are unofficial; confirm requirements on the airline's own careers site.