Heather Poole

  • Notorious Meg joins the laviators club!

    So…when are you going to join? Don’t know what I’m talking about? READ THIS before your next flight

  • Nut allergies on the airplane

    Recently Patricia Aspinall, of Travel Savvy Mom, wrote an interesting article about her experience on board a flight to the Caribbean with a passenger who had a nut allergy, while traveling with her husband and daughter, a two and a half year-old. Like my own two year-old, Patricia’s daughter is…

  • Doing twitter well!

    I am honored to be mentioned by Mark Hodson of TimesOnline.Co.UK as an interesting travel tweeter. Here’s what he wrote… Which travel firms do Twitter well (and badly)? Mark Hodson discovers which companies are using Twitter in a useful way – and those you needn’t bother with getting hold of…

  • Interview with the rapping flight attendant

    Name: David Holmes (AKA The rapping flight attendant) Hometown: Bay Area and Chicago…I claim them both. Base: LAS How long have you been rapping? Was in a group about 1000 years ago, hadn’t rapped after that until flight attendant training The first time you rapped on a flight were your…

  • Meet the Gadling team! (next weekend in Chicago)

    by Grant Martin on May 6th 2009 at 1:00PM We’re a ragtag group of bloggers here at Gadling, always on the road covering the newest, greatest travel stories, making friends all over the world, sleeping in airports and often with a drink and a camera in hand. It’s hard to…

  • Southwest Airlines, AirTran Airways, and other airlines who may be hiring

    Dear Heather, I was hired with Southwest Airlines earlier in the year, but I was informed today that Southwest will no longer be having any training classes in 2009. Now I’m going to try for AirTran Airways. I had an interview and told them I successfully interviewed with Southwest Airlines…

  • So..what do you think of these Madden Girl flight attendant shoes?

    On a whim I sent Jim Green of Zappos.com a quick tweet on twitter and asked, QUICK – which shoes do you recommend for a flight attendant? Then I told him that I’m looking for something in black with a low heel, a round toe, and a buckle (even though…

  • Making Friends (on the airplane)

    I just read the cutest article by Amy Ozols in the The New Yorker Magazine about a woman who got stuck sitting next to a child on the airplane and now I must share…Hello, six-year-old child. Seeing as how fate has brought us together here, in the crowded coach section…

  • How not to slam click on an 8 day trip with a 75 hour Paris layover OR 8 days with Bob, the singing Pilot

    According to Bob, the singing pilot, you can do an 8 day trip with a 75 hour Paris layover without slam clicking, and here’s how…. Day 1 – Commute to work. Sit around a few hours in crew lounge. Fly all night to Paris and.. Day 2 – Arrive mid…

  • Slam clickers, Bob the singing pilot & Laughlin, Nevada

    So what do slam clickers, Laughlin, Nevada, and Bob the singing pilot all have in common? Not much. But I’m determined to link them all together in order to show you a photo gallery from my husband’s recent trip to Laughlin, Nevada and a funny video of Bob, the singing…