Category: Safety
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Flight Attendants Are Now on the Front Line of the Mask Wars
How do airlines keep passengers safe during a pandemic when face masks have become the symbolic defining line in a growing battle between civil liberties and health? I don’t know. But what I do know is that airlines can’t physically force passengers to wear masks in flight. Flight attendants can’t…
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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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Why “Sully” made me proud to be a flight attendant
I wanted to take my 10-year-old son to see the movie “Sully,” but I worried it might be too much. I worried it might make him worry about me. Me being a flight attendant has never been a problem for my son. In fact, when I yell down the hall…
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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…
Heather Poole 