Tag: cruising attitude
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Cruising Attitude has landed – in Germany!
The best thing about a foreign sale: different book cover artwork! Here’s what Cruising Attitude: Tales of Crashpads, Crew Drama and Crazy Passengers at 35,000 Feet looks like in Germany. TITLE TRANSLATION: “We’ve just forgotten our cruise altitude.” “Really?” I asked The Twitter Translator, because certainly that couldn’t be right.…
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Heather’s Jumpseat Nap Song
I know I’ve posted this before, but I think it’s time to post it again since many of you (I hope) have read my book and have had a chance to “meet” Bob, the fashionably dressed pilot, whom I wrote about in the chapter about dating pilots (Why I want to…
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Cruising Attitude: If the book was a movie and the movie had a soundtrack…
This is what it would sound like… Shiny Toy Guns: Le Disko (Frequent Flier Dream Sequence) Jem: They (Chapter 1: Plane Crazy) The Ting Tings: That’s not my Name (Chapter 4: Welcome to New York) Cake: Never there (Chapter 6: Unhappy Holidays) Kate Nash: Merry Happy (Chapter 8: Love is…
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Do flight attendants REALLY hate serving Diet Coke? (How the misconception began)
Flight attendants don’t hate serving Diet Coke. Let me repeat, we do NOT hate serving Diet Coke. Nor do we hate serving passengers. Or even passengers in general. For the record, I drink Diet Coke both as a flight attendant and as a passenger. Hard to believe, I know, given…
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Ladies and gentleman, we have just reached our Cruising Attitude – for real!
This is by far my favorite photo in the Cruising Attitude World Book Tour Series. Not just because my book is cruising along at 30,000 feet in the cockpit (zoom in and check out the altitude), but because the pilot in the left seat with four stripes on his epaulettes…
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The Travel Show with Arthur and Pauline Frommer discuss Cruising Attitude & what it’s like to be a flight attendant.
Click the link below to hear Pauline Frommer call my book “a good beach read,” It sounds like she really enjoyed it. Check it out… The Travel Show – June 10, 2012 – Hour 2: Heather Poole, author of “Cruising Attitude”, tells of her experiences as a flight attendant, both good…
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Heather Poole & The Secret World of Flight Attendants (my interview with Peter Greenberg)
[This post originally appeared on PeterGreenberg.com] Every week we report on all the craziness that goes on up in the air, but we rarely get to hear from the first person on the scene—the flight attendant. That’s why we always try to talk to and listen to Heather Poole, author of…
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Air Canada Jazz flight crew shows off their Cruising Attitude!
Have read your blog for a long time now, and have since worked as Cabin Crew at Jazz (Air Canada Express) for 2 years. In response to the Saudi crew posing with their Cruising Attitude, I thought I would send you mine – from Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada! First book I’ve…
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Advice for writers & my chick lit inspiration
This interview originally appeared on ChickLitCentralTheBlog.com What was the most challenging part of writing “Cruising Attitude?” Finding time to write. I’ve been talking about writing a book for years. After awhile even close friends and family didn’t take me seriously when I’d talk about it. I’m a flight attendant, wife…
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