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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…
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Ladies and gentleman, we have just reached our Cruising Attitude – for real!
This is by far my favorite photo in the Cruising Attitude World Book Tour Series. Not just because my book is cruising along at 30,000 feet in the cockpit (zoom in and check out the altitude), but because the pilot in the left seat with four stripes on his epaulettes…
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PHOTO OF THE DAY: The passenger wanted to play hide and seek. The flight attendants were determined not to find him.
Photo courtesy of Henry Lin It was a tough call. That’s why I’m choosing THREE! FIRST PLACE: @IanHMoore “Jimmy was determined to win at least ONE game of hide and seek, and the flight attendants were determined to do their best not to find him” SECOND PLACE: McCool Travel: “Hey,…
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The Travel Show with Arthur and Pauline Frommer discuss Cruising Attitude & what it’s like to be a flight attendant.
Click the link below to hear Pauline Frommer call my book “a good beach read,” It sounds like she really enjoyed it. Check it out… The Travel Show – June 10, 2012 – Hour 2: Heather Poole, author of “Cruising Attitude”, tells of her experiences as a flight attendant, both good…
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Real Simple: How to pack like a pro (Just a few quotes!)
There’s a great article about packing featured in this month’s issue of Real Simple magazine (July 2012). And I’m not just saying that because they quoted me and gave my book a little love. Okay so maybe I am! HA! No seriously, it’s a really good article. I even learned…
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Heather Poole & The Secret World of Flight Attendants (my interview with Peter Greenberg)
[This post originally appeared on PeterGreenberg.com] Every week we report on all the craziness that goes on up in the air, but we rarely get to hear from the first person on the scene—the flight attendant. That’s why we always try to talk to and listen to Heather Poole, author of…
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