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Photo of the day: It was the only place on the plane Sally felt comfortable reading “50 shades of Grey”
Photo courtesy of Henry Lin Caption courtesy of @IanHMoore
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You know you’re working to Vegas when…
You know you’re working a Vegas flight when passengers walk on board and ask if you’re serving alcohol – at 7AM (Yes, sir, we will be serving alcohol for breakfast), you’re apologizing for running out of limes before takeoff (not over the PA, even though you’d like to), people keep…
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Cruising Attitude has landed – in Germany!
The best thing about a foreign sale: different book cover artwork! Here’s what Cruising Attitude: Tales of Crashpads, Crew Drama and Crazy Passengers at 35,000 Feet looks like in Germany. TITLE TRANSLATION: “We’ve just forgotten our cruise altitude.” “Really?” I asked The Twitter Translator, because certainly that couldn’t be right.…
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How do new flight attendants on probation commute to work? (And who pays for it?)
I would love to become a flight attendant. I live close to Fort Lauderdale airport, only about 30 miles from Miami International Airport and 80 miles from West Palm Beach Airport. I also have two teenagers (13 and 16) so that’s where my question begins. If I live in Florida but my base is…
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Photo of the day: Sick and tired of all the nickel and diming, Mindy decides to save a dollar by skipping the “napkin fee”
Photo courtesy of Steven Pam Quote courtesy of @IanHMoore
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Heather’s Jumpseat Nap Song
I know I’ve posted this before, but I think it’s time to post it again since many of you (I hope) have read my book and have had a chance to “meet” Bob, the fashionably dressed pilot, whom I wrote about in the chapter about dating pilots (Why I want to…
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Cruising Attitude: If the book was a movie and the movie had a soundtrack…
This is what it would sound like… Shiny Toy Guns: Le Disko (Frequent Flier Dream Sequence) Jem: They (Chapter 1: Plane Crazy) The Ting Tings: That’s not my Name (Chapter 4: Welcome to New York) Cake: Never there (Chapter 6: Unhappy Holidays) Kate Nash: Merry Happy (Chapter 8: Love is…
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Do flight attendants REALLY hate serving Diet Coke? (How the misconception began)
Flight attendants don’t hate serving Diet Coke. Let me repeat, we do NOT hate serving Diet Coke. Nor do we hate serving passengers. Or even passengers in general. For the record, I drink Diet Coke both as a flight attendant and as a passenger. Hard to believe, I know, given…
Heather Poole 