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In reply to the discussion: Muslim Flight Attendant Refuses to Serve Alcohol- Do Republicans support her? [View all]Ms. Toad
(38,683 posts)I don't know why that specific job requires an age of 21, but the requirement that the applicant speak Mandarin Chinese indicates this is not a generic job description - so there may well be other requirements in the description (like age, for example) that are specific to this job. The two general statements I found about United for flight attendants indicated the age of hire was 19.
But even if United hires at 21, there are other airlines which hire at younger than 21 that fly out of airports where alcohol is served. That means that flight attendants who can't serve alcohol for legal reasons can be accommodated - which makes it a much harder case since it then comes down to whether there are special circumstances in this particular airline that warrant an exception - and you're countering a successful accommodation for 3 months until it responded to a bigoted complaint.