You like to push our button. I know you do. You do it all the time. You push it for a drink, something to eat, to ask a question, to hand us your trash, and when somethings wrong. You push it when you want us to tell the parent sitting in front of you to [...]

Since I’m usually the purser, time and time again I catch myself repeating “The captain has turned on the fasten seatbelt sign, please return to your seats, fasten your seatbelts, and remain seated until it has been turned off.”
How many people actually hear me? All 150. How many people LISTEN to me? about 50.

It’s amazing [...]

Wow. For the last few holiday seasons I didn’t fly much. Prior to my current airline, I worked in the office during the holidays, and prior to that, at my first airline; I was in training for Thanksgiving and somehow got Christmas off. But, wow. People who haven’t flown since Carter was President are now [...]

Hi. It’s me. Your gay flight attendant. I know you know I’m gay. The way you smile at every move I make and how you touch my hand every time I serve you a drink gave it away. Oh! and lets not forget how you told me you were gay as well.. when you bent [...]

I was on day 2 of 4, working Seattle to Los Angeles, back to Seattle, then once again, back to Los Angeles. I was flying with a crew that I knew but haven’t flown with before. I actually did one of their IOEs a year ago. Having that faith in her really came in handy.
We [...]

One thing I can say about my job is to expect the unexpected. Every day brings something new that I haven’t experienced, heard or seen. This last four day trip brought out many new experiences.
Day three, the fun started. We arrived on the aircraft ontime and began our checks when the gate agent came onto [...]

For the last two months when putting in my bids, I’ve been trying to avoid JFK and I succeeded. However, the trips at the end of September and all of October that I usually like to bid no longer exist. Almost all the four-day commutable trips go to JFK once. Honestly, its kind of expected, [...]

Though I wrote a post about Flight Attendant Camaraderie, there is, however, the flip side to that. Not only between airlines, but within each airline.
I usually bid for 4 day trans-continental trips.  Doing this, results in our crew of 3 usually becoming very close. Not only are we working together for 8-9-10 hours a day [...]

The Flight Attendants talk about it in the safety demo, its written at your seat, it’s on the safety card and you hear the announcements the whole flight long. What am I talking about? The Fasten Seatbelt Sign of course. You might not have figured it out though, because it seems many of you [...]

At my previous airline, the pilots were the only crew members to receive meals. It was written into their contract that any flight over 3.5 hours a hot or cold meal would be provided. Of course, before giving the meal boxes to the pilots or heating up their meal (which was the worst! We had [...]