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I’m not afraid to fly
An hour before our flight from Miami to Raleigh-Durham was scheduled to depart on Thursday, my coworker — a fairly new flight attendant — yelled “Mom!” into her phone as she stood in the airport. She looked upset as I passed by with my rolling bag and continued on to…
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Breastfeeding on planes
Unlike other body parts, breasts seem to confuse some people. Sometimes they’re sexy; other times, they’re a source of food. You may have recently read about the male flight attendant who allegedly tossed a blanket at a passenger who was breastfeeding, ordering her to cover up. It’s tempting to obsess over this…
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How much do flight attendants really make?
“Friendlier service doesn’t cost a thing.” That’s what one travel writer said, after complaining about an experience on board a flight recently. But as a flight attendant with years of experience, my first thought was: Yes. It does. Whenever I speak to people about what I do for a living,…
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Flight attendant uniforms are about more than just style
“Have you seen what I have to wear?” a first officer said when she overheard me talking about American Airlines‘ new uniforms. “A scarf,” she hissed. She may have used the f-word. “Pilots don’t wear scarves, we wear ties. TIES!” Got it? They wear ties. Not long ago I wrote about…
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Why Disrespecting Flight Attendants is Totally Nuts
Why Disrespecting Flight Attendants is Totally Nuts by Marisa Garcia originally appeared on Skift.com Dec 17, 2014 As flight attendant, industry writer, and Cruising Attitude author Heather Poole, says: “The problem is that nobody gets this job. My job is not hard, but 99% of people couldn’t do it.” Ongoing promotion of flight attendants as…
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Have emotional support animals gone too far?
In my 18 years as a flight attendant, I’ve pretty much seen it all and then some, including a monkey seated in business class. She was on her way to the Today show, and even though all I served her on the five-hour flight was a cup of water, I’ll never forget…
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Ebola on a plane
I wrote Why Flight Attendants are Concerned About Ebola for Mashable on Oct 29, 2014 I’d just gotten off a flight from Las Vegas to Chicago, and only had a moment to grab something to eat before my next flight to New York. I made a beeline for Tortas Frontera…
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An Ode to the Flight Attendant Scarf
I couldn’t take my eyes off her. She wore orange short-shorts, a matching tight T-shirt and white knee-high go-go boots. The sexy getup wasn’t what stood out to me, though, nor was it the mile-high Afro. I didn’t even notice the silver tray with a Bloody Mary balanced on top…
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35,000 Feet in the Air: Where Sexual Harassment Can Still Get a Pass
When I first started working as a flight attendant, a CEO of a telecommunications giant pinched me on the you-know-what. I didn’t know what to do, so I nervously laughed and ran to the galley where I would’ve cursed him out — if he hadn’t followed me there. That’s when…
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How to Seduce a Flight Attendant
Why do you think so many guys are into flight attendants? It’s got to be the uniform right? Maybe men just secretly like being told what to do? A firm, ‘Keep your seatbelt buckled!’ even when the seatbelt sign is not on might be one man’s idea of a turn-on.…
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