Category: Airplanes
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Americans Don’t Care About Safety
If it’s not a Boeing, I’m not going. That’s a phrase I’ve heard often over the course of my 20-plus career as a flight attendant for a major U.S. carrier. Even I may have uttered the phrase a few times after my airline replaced the Boeing 767 with the new…
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Making Friends (on the airplane)
I just read the cutest article by Amy Ozols in the The New Yorker Magazine about a woman who got stuck sitting next to a child on the airplane and now I must share…Hello, six-year-old child. Seeing as how fate has brought us together here, in the crowded coach section…
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Swine flu on the airplane (a few things you can do)
Today I’m flying from Los Angeles to New York to start my reserve rotation for May. I’m bringing my son along with me. He’s two. Because my husband travels on business often and I’ll be on-call, my son will be spending eight days with grandma and grandpa. Oh sure I’ll…
Heather Poole 