Yeah, that's me, the one standing in the aisle wearing flammable polyester...
To those who’ve been following the uniform crisis over the last year, I want to say thank you for your support. You’ll never know how much it means to me and thousands of other American Airlines employees. Some of you have asked how you can help. Making people aware of what’s going on is half…
Read more Harvard Links Chemicals in Clothing to Flight Attendant Health Complaints
Welcome to the club nobody wants to be a part of. That’s how we greet newbies who join our support group for American Airlines employees who’ve had reactions to toxic chemicals in the new uniform. As of Jan. 1, 2018, there are 9,688 members in our private Facebook group. Since the new uniform rolled out on Sept. 20, 2016, thousands of…
An AirAsia plane “plummeted” from the sky, and in every news report I read, passengers complained that flight attendants panicked. I’ve been a flight attendant for over 20 years. I have a hard time believing the crew panicked. They may have looked shocked, but panicked? Define panicked. One passenger told Seven News network television: “Hostesses started screaming:…
Read more Brace Yourself: In Defense of “Hysterical” Flight Attendants
I’m a flight attendant. My job is to make sure passengers get from point A to point B as safely as possible, which is why I’ve been trained to handle any number of emergency situations, the kind that airlines don’t want you to think about when you’re in the air. This is why airlines…
Read more Fly Me: It’s 2017, so why are flight attendants still being sexualized?
“YOU HATE SEX, DIRTY DIRTY SEX…” That’s what a stranger tweeted to me out of the blue last year. I remember staring at the computer screen and thinking, what in the world…? Because I like sex. Why did she think I hated sex? Someone else followed up with something about me disliking attractive women. Or…
Read more When it Comes to Flight Attendants, Why is the Media so Sexist?
On Friday nights in Dallas, when I was in high school, I liked to go to free concerts in the West End. My friends and I would dress up, walk around and basically goof off. On one of those nights a good-looking man handed me a rose. He’d bought it on the street from a…
Read more My Uniform Made Me Sick. Could The Same Thing Happen To a Hockey Star?
A couple of weeks ago the New York Times published a story about cats that have hypothyroidism. A few people tweeted the link to me. One person wrote that it reminded him of me and what’s going on with the new uniforms at American Airlines. According to the article, feline hypothyroidism didn’t exist when Dr. Mark…
