Sara, thanks for your comments. I too thought the talk about hooking up was so out of character for most of us. Even in my junior years, I didn't see that happening. On the contrary, many a passenger or hotel guest who saw the uniform & thought "easy" was firmly yet politely rejected. Looks like we still have to keep polishing & protecting the image of our job.

I couldn't agree with you more, Sara. I am a 26 year veteran with a major airline, and have only once ( in 26 yrs) have seen a flight attendant "hook-up" with someone. And to pay the rent, I've never heard of any airline doing that.

Sara and Vicki, you have both been working longer than this flight attendant has been alive. At 22, she is part of a new generation of young women who think nothing of doing it with someone they just met. If only I were 20 years younger myself...sigh.

Sara,

I believe she must work for Emirates. I have been a flight attendant 14 years here in the U.S. definitely hook ups are exception not the rule. She is obviously young and perhaps it is different at the airline she works for. But I think this definitely made the flight attendants once again look like the stewardesses from Coffee, Tea, or Me. I laughed as I read it - since it just seems like a piece of fiction to me. This girl probably just started flying, was already a bit trampy, and this is allowing her to flit around and hook up all over the world. She won't last in the airline industry.

From the sound of it, she does not work for any major US carrier. Back in the good times I knew a very few F/A who pretty much gave the rest of us the reputation of sky sluts. I had the misfortune to get a room connecting to theirs one trip and could not sleep for the racket they made. They had picked up a couple of guys on our JFK-LAX flt and sat in their laps during the movie, made frequent trips to the lav and came out sniffing and then one was not at her door for arrival! I had to run to disarm it so the agent wouldn't get flattened by the slide. Definitely the exception rather than the rule which is why I still remember this incident. Most F/A are much classier than all that.
Every airline is different. Different routes, rates of pay, work rules AND apparently hiring practices.

Sara: Right now, girl. I agree 100% and am in a position to do so.

May be that's you, people are different.