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You’ve read about them before, I’ve talked about them on TV and believe it or not, no, I’m not paid to do so (but I should be). I love LUSH. Yes, there, I said. I love them. Their products are amazing and I recently found out, their employees are too.
On a recent trip to Vancouver (which was not among one of my...
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If you haven’t figured it out yet, one of the Best All Inclusive Deals out there is cruising. From the moment I went on my first cruise in 2002 I was hooked, the whole experience makes for an amazing memorable vacation.
One of the elements that makes the vacation awe inspiring is the cruise ship itself. They’re so grand...
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One of the first things I was told in my current airlines inflight training course was
If you’re a seasoned flight attendant from another airline, we’re going to try to retrain you to not use the phrase “at this time” in your announcements.
At first, I was confused. What were they talking about? “At...
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I’ve been working a lot of transcon turns lately. They’ve built a ton of them out of my base and I started bidding them. At first, I didn’t want to do them. They end up being long days (even longer with delays) but I’m becoming addicted.
You’re home at night, you’re getting the same amount of...
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If you’ve been following my blog you’ll know that I usually don’t like working flights to New York. I’ve always said the “I want it my way” of California with the “I want it now” of New York put together on one airplane can sometimes be a flight attendant’s hell.
But, I’m...
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As I’ve written about before the “trips” (or flights a crew member is scheduled to work) we work often vary. There really isn’t such a thing as “do you always work this route?” because chances are, no, the crew doesn’t.
On this particular three day trip, on day two I was only scheduled to work one flight from San...
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Ever wonder what an airline executive would say about the billions of dollars raked in from baggage, reservation and other fees? Conan O’Brien does.
Take a look at his interview with the fictitious Tony Kent, “Delta Air Lines executive vice president.”
“Actually, Conan, even with those fees, Delta is just...
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On my trip to Vancouver Gailen David and I were lucky enough to be given a tour of the LUSH cosmetics factory by one of their amazing employees, Jill. I will post more about the tour in an upcoming update, but this post is about something more important.
She mentioned that prior to showing up to greet us she had been working out...
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