Heather Poole

  • Airplane photos & Hawaiian luaus

    I got an email today from an amazing photographer named Ron Dubin. All he wrote was, “It’s a plane, thought you might like it…” So I clicked the link and he was right, I do, indeed, like it. Here’s what else he had to say…“A single engine plane up in…

  • Hanging coats in business class (it’s just a flight attendant thing)

    Quickly I walk to gate 40B dressed in navy blue polyester, a tall latte in one hand, pulling my suitcase on wheels with the other hand. I flash the crew ID hanging around my neck at the frazzled agent manning the counter. Even though she’s sorting out a problem with…

  • Art on the airplane (Emilee)

  • A letter from from the first officer concerning my shoes

    Hey Skydoll, Your shoes are definitely a good starter… and I could fly with the shoes. Have you looked lately at what the FA ‘s are wearing?! I mean I can understand comfortable… but that Steve Martin line was in the 80’S. Take care Heather, maybe we will see you…

  • The flight attendant was a mess!

    Heather, I am going to assume that you are a well put together flight attendant when I ask this question…Can you honestly say that you have never been embarrassed to walk through the terminal with any of your flying partners? You know the ones. They don’t starch their shirts–or worse,…

  • Passenger of the month

    Name: Adam Schaffer Occupation: Media and publishing executive. I am in the magazine business, but had the honor of being on the editorial advisory board of Inside Flyer magazine a few years back Which is exactly why I picked you as my passenger of the month. Tell me something interesting…

  • The New York Times, Netbooks & Me!

    The Frugal Traveler writes… Laptops on airplanes are hardly an unusual sight these days, but when Heather Poole pulled out her computer on a recent flight from New York to Los Angeles, she got a surprising reaction from the flight attendants serving drinks. “They stopped service — they wanted to…

  • Airboy thought of me – in the lav

    Heather, I thought you might like that. I was thinking of you and your trend on the way over from CDG to DXB….

  • New York takes to the sky!

    Tiffany “New York” Pollard, resident reality queen, is back on VH1 in a new series, “New York Goes to Work.” Each week, Tiffany will gear up to tackle America’s work force while you choose from a list of three possible job opportunities for her to try. Based on weekly viewer…

  • A question about why flight attendants make twice as much as teachers

    Dear Heather, Any time I go back to the rear of the plane and find flight attendants reading magazines, I am finding people off the job. You people are being paid roughly TWICE per hour what they pay the teachers who teach your children to read…How would you like to…