“I’ll try it for a year,” I said. “Until I figure out what’s next.” This is what I told myself when I accepted my flight attendant job offer. That resolution was uttered for the first time in 2013, moments after
It will surprise exactly no one to find out that the flying public can be really f*cking annoying. As a flight attendant, I experience this firsthand, and it is one of the things my coworkers and I talk about most.
Summer is finally upon us! With this change in season, comes changes to flying. The routes are different, the crowds are different, and, though it goes without saying, the weather is different. The summer is a special time of year
Flight attendants spend a good portion of our lives in hotels. We sleep there, we eat there, we organize our finances and conduct our zoom meetings there. We do our homework and talk to family and microwave our dinners. Sometimes
Standing in the back galley of an aircraft during a particularly busy boarding process, two flight attendants watch in puzzled annoyance people failing at the process. They can’t find their seats, they stow their bags sideways in the bins, taking
I love quarantine. No, I’m not kidding. I’ve been enjoying my time off in quarantine so much that I requested to take another month of voluntary leave for August. I figured I may as well “round out the Summer,” enjoy
Yesterday was International Flight Attendant Day. And while my friends and coworkers were posting cute photos of them in uniform, hashtagging this made-up (but fun!) holiday, I was having a pretty awful day at work. The first in a long