Category: Airline
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Once a Flight Attendant, Always a Flight Attendant
Once a flight attendant, always a flight attendant. It’s like the Marines. That might sound crazy to some people. It’s true though. Only another flight attendant can truly understand what the job is like. It doesn’t matter which airline we work for, we all have the same experiences. At times,…
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Crematories & “Safe” Chemicals
What does Bill Clinton’s sex life have in common with dead people? I’ll get to that in a moment. First, a little bit about me. I’m like Pavlov’s dog when it comes to the word “safe,” except that instead of drooling when I hear it, I start googling. That’s because…
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Cell phones on the airplane
Recently on Twitter.com Times Travel asked me who I thought the worst type of passenger was. I wrote, “a business class passenger who does not get an upgrade and ends up in coach.” But not all business class passengers who end up in coach are bad. In fact, business class…
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The Other Blonde
I should have noticed sooner something strange was going on with my husband when I’d fly to New York to go to work, which is something I do every month because I’m a flight attendant for a major US airline based at La Guardia Airport. Honestly, though, my work schedule…
Heather Poole 