Long Commutes tire Flight Attendants, too!

I’m really started to get tired of the fact that the mainstream media keeps forgetting about flight attendants. You’ll remember a week or so ago a story was all over the airwaves and newspapers about how pilots can commute a “long” ways to work since one in five pilots live “at least” 750 miles...

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The Pad: Moving In

The Crash Pad was run by a UPS First Officer. She, a closeted lesbian (in my opinion), was a few crayons short of a full box. She had told me that she had set up the crash pad in this particular apartment complex because she was using the address to send her child to a better school. Fair enough. I know what that’s like, my...

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Duct Tape Deliriousness

Jun 06, 10 Duct Tape Deliriousness

Posted by in In the News

This morning I woke as usual, earlier then I’d like though, checked my Facebook, emails and Twitter account like the good social media ‘internet personality’ that I am. Before going to bed last night I tweeted the link to my article on Examiner.com which has pictures of an aircraft incident in Charlotte, N.C....

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Please Fasten Your Seatbelts. Thanks.

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...

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Alaska Airlines Flight Attendant's file lawsuit due to Turbulence

Yep. You read that correctly. I was just as shocked as you are when I first read this story.. and frankly, I’d love to meet these ladies. Donna Dacko and Inga Isakson were working a flight to ONT (Ontario, CA) from SEA (Seattle, WA) on December 25, 2007  when just prior to landing the flight hit “previously unreported...

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