A few years ago, on board a flight from Los Angeles to New York, a group of young girls wore nothing but jeans and T-shirts — in the middle of winter. They didn’t speak English, and they didn’t speak to each other the entire flight. I remember thinking it was odd, but I didn’t…
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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?” I thought about it for, oh, half a second, and said, “In a way I guess it does.” I tried not to laugh, but it was nearly impossible. 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 able to hold my first choice work schedule, two weeks vacation, a raise, longer layovers, more wide-body flying, faster flying times, grateful and polite passengers with a sense of humor,…
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 are, only to be reminded why I maybe shouldn’t ask that question. “This airline sucks,” said one passenger, after I wished him a “Good morning.” “We’re not sitting together and…
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 to be … well, they didn’t know. Which I suppose is how they came up with “no good reason.” In a passenger-recorded video, we don’t see what led up to…
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 or not you were fit to do your job — a job you were doing every day, a job nobody had complained about. You might say that was ridiculous. You…
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 attractive man standing in line at the Hudson News outside of security. We made eye contact, and he started walking towards me. “Excuse me,” he said. I stopped and smiled,…
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