Heather Poole

  • Just a few things a flight attendant doesn’t want to hear

    1. BRACE! – I’ll bet you there wasn’t a flight attendant in the world who did not open their flight manual and review the ditching procedures right after seeing what an amazing job the US Airways crew did evacuating a flight after landing in the Hudson River. On my last…

  • Nasty hotel rooms

    If anyone knows how gross a hotel room is it’s a flight attendant. Look what my sister found in a popular casino hotel in Louisiana. Now I’ve seen a few disgusting things in my life, but this takes the cake. Because that inch of dust covering the alarm clock didn’t…

  • Heather Poole is here…

    Bob, the singing pilot, wrote… I watched a movie on the airplane called:”Henry Poole is Here”It was kinda boring.Should they make a movie called “Heather Poole is Here?” [movie guy’s voice]”In a world…..where flight attendants sit reserve….one woman….one airline……and a cast of 1000’s of passengers…..will meet…….and the world will not…

  • Dear FreeJose.com

    Dear FreeJose.com,I just saw that you kicked me off your list – the hottest geek girls of twitter. I think that you may think that I found the list to be offensive. Just the opposite, really! Put me back on the list. Please. I BEG YOU! I want on that…

  • I, Heather Poole, am one of the "hottest geek girls of twitter!"

    I wouldn’t lie about something as serious, or as flattering as that! Here’s what I read on the website – Freejose.com… For the uninformed here is the definition of Twitter according to Wikipedia.org: Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that allows its users to send and read…

  • Miracle on the Hudson photo (first class vs coach)

    My friend Mark, the wannbe flight attendant, sent me this hilarious photo. Of course I had to share!

  • February flight schedule

    I bid for high time turns in February. A turn is a trip that starts and ends in the same day at a base city. My base is New York. My turn of choice is Dallas. New York to Dallas (and back) is 7 hours of flight time. That’s good…

  • A question about being a flight attendant and a mom

    Dear Heather, I have one quick question for you… I am about to be a new mom (with a baby boy due in February) and I’m also a flight attendant. I love my job (people, travel, benefits… everything!) but I’m worried about how hard it’s going to be for me…

  • Hermosa Beach, California

    Went for a run on the beach today…

  • Three books about flying I just bought on Amazon.com

    Cockpit: Confessions of an Airline Pilot by Stephen Keshner While it didn’t get the best reviews, the reviews are what made me purchase it. Won’t be reading it anytime soon because my mother, also a flight attendant, picked it up and couldn’t put it down. Already she’s told me about…