At This Time, a thought about Announcements

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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Flightster Friday: Sick Crewmembers

Apr 29, 11 Flightster Friday: Sick Crewmembers

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So you’re scheduled to take a flight and once you get to the airport you find out that you’re flight is delayed because they’re waiting on a replacement flight attendant. Chances are the flight attendant who shows up was called at home or from the airport ready reserve room to cover a sick crewmember. A lot of...

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Hotel Horror: Luffa, anyone?

Apr 07, 11 Hotel Horror: Luffa, anyone?

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Traveling as much as I do puts me in a routine, as I wrote about on Flightster. One of the first things I do is unpack my amenities from luggage, put it in the bathroom and change out of my uniform. A lot of my co-workers say that the first thing they do is take a shower to “get the airplane” off of them. I can’t do that,...

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How Uniform are Uniforms?

In the van on the way to airport on my last trip, we stopped at an additional hotel to pick up more passengers. On walks a flight attendant for another airline who appeared to have the worlds best fitting uniform. It looked like it was made for her. She was pressed, crisp and ready for work. Once she sat down though, my eyes went...

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1000 Ways to Die, 1 Way to Turn Me Off

A few months ago my fellow InFlight Teammember Sara Keagle was asked to fly to Burbank, California and appear on a SPIKE-TV show called “1000 Ways to Die.” They wanted her to comment on a few inflight situations as a flight attendant and wanted to record her reactions to a few situations. A few weeks later she got wind...

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