Gadling

I am a flight attendant at NWA ... since those flights are usually occupied by ultra senior Mamma flight attendants they will do things like that ... while on the other hand we aren't. : ) If they set it up go ahead and poor some ... especially when it's that long of a flight and man oh man is Tokyo long from anywhere! Other then that stick to what the lovely Galley girl above has said, ugh I love how she hits it right on the nose every time. : D

Actually my flight is usually from Amsterdam, this time from Heathrow.
But indeed, the flight attendants are usually a little older, except on my last flight with NWA there was only one FA I kept seeing all the time. Because she was working in our aisle?

STIJN - Probably a senior route, which means a prime route - because everything goes by seniority you can tell the best trips and the best positions on the airplane, USUALLY, by the age of the flight attendant...because the more senior, the better the flying. I'll be posting about that soon, something about BIDDING...

Heather

You betcha,, Flight Attendants work and rest in the galley. When I flew, for 46years, passengers would come into the galley and even take my personal newspaper. Why a passenger feels that the galley is a place to stretch and make banal conversation, is beyond me. As for mothers who let their small ones crawl around on the floors, are the same mothers who leave the row looking like a disaster area with no regard for the next passenger who will have to endure nasty cornflakes etc. Believe it or not, the plane will need to go someplace else and all of your detritus in the seat back pocket is an indication of how self centered today's passengers are.