Heather Poole

  • Ron, Johnny Jet, & The Savvy Nav in the Lav

    Ron Johnny Jet The Savvy Navigator   Laviators Unite! Click here to see the official club

  • Flight attendant photos wanted!

    Whenever I write a post, I have to go to flickr.com to find a photograph to go along with it, and because my posts are usually about flight attendants, I’m always on the lookout for cool flight attendant photographs. Which is why I’m now asking you to send me your…

  • 10 passengers we love to, umm…not like as much as the others: Day 4 – The passenger who tries to score a free first class seat

    In Grant Martin’s post, The top 5 myth’s about getting an upgrade, he wrote… Flight attendants have no control over who gets upgraded when there always might be one last business class passenger coming down the jet bridge right before departure, so they can’t give away a seat. After the…

  • Flight attendants reveal their worst passengers

    I was not interviewed for this News.com.au article, by Kate Schneider, but the quotes from me were taken from my GALLEY GOSSIP flight attendant pet peeve posts….If you’ve left the door open while peeing, if you listen to music while they try to talk to you or if you’ve tried…

  • Airline uniforms (plus a chance to win free tickets on Olympia Airlines)

    Just like Cliff Muskiet, the uniform freak, I have a thing for airline uniforms. I think most flight attendants do. In fact, inside my guestroom closet hangs three different uniform styles from two different airlines. I’ve saved it all – the pants, the skirts, the dresses, the jackets, the vests,…

  • I’m not really sure what this post is about, but it does revolve around an adults preferred hotel…

    My friend Cady gave birth to a baby boy recently – okay fine, so it wasn’t really all that recently, considering the kid is like two months old and seventeen pounds already! Which is why I need to go see her – NOW! Because Cady lives in Florida and I…

  • More Than This, by Margo Candela

    I’ve written about my charming, witty, and always stylish friend (and writing partner) Margo Candela before, and I’ve even featured her book, More Than This, in the Galley Gossip post, Love on the Plane. Well I’ve got big news, people! Latino Literacy Now announced the winners of their 11th Annual…

  • 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…

  • Laviating

    Hi Heather, Keeping up with the Laviators Club Taken on a flight from AVP to CLT on a Canadair Regional Jet from USAir Express (Gotta love these little planes … in and out in a couple of minutes and on top of that, they take care of your carry on.…

  • Travel writer Jessica Spiegel joins the laviators club!

    Taken en route from MSP to AMS (which was part of a bigger trip, en route from PDX to MXP). Luckily, it was very dark on the plane & most people were asleep, so no one saw me tucking my camera into the baggie with my toothbrush for this trip…