You’re at the airport. Your flight is cancelled. Nobody knows why. The only answer you’ve been given is totally lacking in information and, based on…
In seventh grade a group of boys thought it would be funny to lift my blue denim skirt to expose my panties for all to…
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…
Boarding a plane a few years ago, a passenger looked at me funny and asked, “Do you work here?” “Of course I work here,” I…
The best thing about my job is the people I meet. In the 20 years I’ve been working as a flight attendant, my encounter with Muhammad…
THIS GIVEAWAY IS OVER As a flight attendant I carry two pairs of shoes on me at all times. A pair of nice…
I’ve been a flight attendant for 20 years. In other words I’ve spent a lot of time talking to myself. Some of my best conversations…
Whenever I hear people talk about something being normal I think about the first airline I worked for. Sun Jet International Airline. Sun Jet was…
35,000 FEET — Have you ever asked a sushi chef about his sex life? Have you ever seen a Starbucks barista in lingerie — on…
You know you’re a flight attendant when you can easily say the word “goodbye” in six different languages. To say we meet a lot of…
A few years ago, on board a flight from Los Angeles to New York, a group of young girls wore nothing but jeans and…
We were walking the dog when my son said, “Why does it feel like my childhood is over? Does this mean I’m … a man?”…
There’s nothing like practically living on an airplane to change what you wish for every year. “All I want for Christmas is job security, being…
During boarding, when I’m standing in front of the flight deck door greeting passengers, I always smile and say, “Hello.” Sometimes I’ll ask how passengers…
Last month the New York Post ran a story about a passenger who was kicked off a flight for“no good reason.” The “no good reason” turned out…
I don’t know what you do for a living, but imagine if I told you I needed your Body Mass Index, or BMI, to decide whether…
It was like a scene out of a movie. I was in the terminal at John F. Kennedy International Airport when I spotted a very…
It’s not hard to spot inebriated passengers when they walk on board and announce, “Let’s party and have some drinks!” Those we know to keep…