May 2nd, 2012 at 12:00PM: "Wouldn't it be nice to be served by flight attendants that are actually excited to come to work? Yes, safety training is important. But there is no reason to believe that a fit and alert 29-year-old should perform less safely in an emergency than a weary, overweight 60-year-old." –Bill Frezza, Forbes.com
If you want to talk safety, Bill, let's talk safety. But what's with using "weary" ...Click on a label to read posts from that part of the world.
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Galley Gossip: In Defense Of Old And Weary Flight Attendants
May 2nd, 2012 at 12:00PM: "Wouldn't it be nice to be served by flight attendants that are actually excited to come to work? Yes, safety training is important. But there is no reason to believe that a fit and alert 29-year-old should perform less safely in an emergency than a weary, overweight 60-year-old." –Bill Frezza, Forbes.com
If you want to talk safety, Bill, let's talk safety. But what's with using "weary" ...Galley Gossip: 5 Of The Best 'Worst Flight Attendant' Comedy Skits Of All Time
Apr 25th, 2012 at 11:00AM: 1. Saturday Night Live: Flight Announcement (staring Kristen Wiig and Megan Fox)
2. Pam Ann: Cabin Service (staring Pam Ann)
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Airline Madness: Rude airline staff vs. Legroom
Mar 19th, 2012 at 3:30PM: Airline Madness is Gadling's tournament of airline annoyances. You can catch up on all of the previous tournament action here.
Our final second round Airline Madness match-up features two classic airline pet peeves. #6 seed Rude airline staff struck a chord with voters and advanced with a dominating performance. It appears that many of you are fed up with poor customer service and terse ...Airline Madness: Rude airline staff vs. Having to turn off electronic devices during takeoff & landing
Mar 13th, 2012 at 3:00PM: Airline Madness is Gadling's tournament of airline annoyances. You can catch up on all of the previous tournament action here.
Our penultimate first round Airline Madness match-up pits #7 Rude airline staff against #10 Having to turn off electronic devices during takeoff and landing. While we almost expect other passengers to be obnoxious, airline employees work in customer service ...Galley Gossip: Even flight attendants deserve the right to choose pants
Mar 12th, 2012 at 12:00PM: In a magazine I read years ago, a bigwig working for an international Asian carrier was quoted stating, "Passengers wouldn't dare yell at a flight attendant wearing a dress." It felt like a snide remark directed toward flight attendants in the United States who prefer to wear pants. Instead, it just demonstrated that he hadn't spent much time with U.S. passengers, who are non-discriminating. They ...California woman arrested in nail-painting incident on Southwest flight
Mar 8th, 2012 at 12:00PM: According to CBS Los Angeles, a California woman was arrested in late February for painting her nails on a Southwest flight bound for Houston. The woman, identified as Jeanie Daniels, was on her way to visit her boyfriend and claims that the passengers seated next to her agreed to let her do her nails.
But one of the flight attendants reportedly objected, so Daniels retreated to the bathroom to ...Video of the Day: Southwest hotpants
Feb 20th, 2012 at 7:00PM:
We came across this Southwest Airlines ad from 1972 and, well, we're pretty speechless. It's simple and to the point.
Remember what it was like before Southwest Airlines? You didn't have hostesses in hotpants. Remember?
No wonder Southwest Airlines doesn't charge to check bags. Luggage doesn't take up much space when your clothing is that small. ...
Galley Gossip: Why flight attendants might not open an emergency exit during an evacuation
Feb 9th, 2012 at 11:30AM: The first thing a flight attendant does before opening an emergency exit during an evacuation is assess the conditions outside. This is one reason why some airlines require passengers seated in the exit rows to keep their window shades up during takeoff and landing. The last thing you want to do is escape one bad situation only to find yourself in an even worse one. Think fire. Water. Captain ...Galley Gossip: Improve your travel with Bruce Lee
Jan 13th, 2012 at 9:30AM: The following quotes are from the book Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living by John Little.
1. Something for nothing - "There is only something for something, never something for nothing."
Think about that next time you feel nickel and dimed by an airline. Ticket prices are less than they were twenty years ago, so in the end you're still paying the same price you were in ...In the unlikely event of College Humor's parody on air travel.....
Dec 28th, 2011 at 3:00PM:
Anyone who has even been on an airplane has seen the flight attendants mimic a range of unlikely events, like what to do if you need to use your seat as a floatation device or if the cabin loses oxygen. Apparently, however, they have been leaving a lot of information out of the safety tutorial. What do the passengers do if the plane crash lands in the mountains and everyone begins eating ...
Galley Gossip: How do flight attendants survive on such a small salary?
Nov 16th, 2011 at 9:00AM:
I've been offered a position as a flight attendant. Training hasn't started yet, but I'm freaking out a little. Should I back out? It seems like a fun and exciting job, but the pay is $20/hour with only a 79-hour guarantee of work per month. The first year I would have to be on reserve and would need to live within 20 minutes of the airport. A one bedroom/studio within 30 minutes of the airport ...Galley Gossip: Flight attendant haunted layover hotel ghost stories (and a haunted plane!)
Oct 31st, 2011 at 12:30PM: In the spirit of Halloween, I'd like to share a few layover hotel ghost stories from flight attendants I know...
At a hotel in San Francisco the water kept turning itself on during the night. After the 3rd or 4th time, instead of getting up and turning it off, I had a little talk with the ghost. I was thinking I must have lost my mind. Water went off automatically. Never came on again! - Vicki ...Galley Gossip: Pilot sexually harassed by a passenger!
Oct 25th, 2011 at 12:00PM:
Dear Heather, I have to share this with you. I'm a pilot and I was sexually harassed last night. While jump-seating home, the lead flight attendant calls the cockpit and says a passenger thinks one of the flaps is out of position. The captain sends me back to check the wings. I squeeze into the fully occupied exit row to peer out the window. While looking out the window, ...Galley Gossip: Elbow attacks and armrest wars (the battle continues)
Oct 13th, 2011 at 4:00PM: Recently a friend shared a story about a woman who accused him of being an "elbow assaulter" on a flight from San Francisco to Dallas. To make a long story short, my friend is 6' 2" and 230 pounds. The woman who sat beside him was, in his words, not petite. During the flight he made various maneuvers in his seat to try and flatten himself against the wall to give her as much room as possible while ...Galley Gossip: Flight attendant interview - The pros and cons of speaking a second language and how it affects reserve
Sep 30th, 2011 at 9:30AM: Dear Heather, I am hoping to become a flight attendant soon (have a face to face interview next week!) and have a question about reserve status. I speak Japanese fluently and was wondering how different things are for flight attendants who speak a different language. Are they on reserve for the same amount of time? Is anything different? - Natasha
For the first time in history being a flight ...Galley Gossip: A letter to the producers of Project Runway regarding flight attendant uniforms
Aug 31st, 2011 at 11:00AM:
Dear Project Runway Producers,
Have I got a challenge for you! With the premiere of the new television show Pan Am airing September 25th on ABC, there's been a lot of talk about airlines in the news lately. One can't help but compare stewardesses of yesterday to flight attendants today, and yet the job rarely resembles what it once was so many years ago. Long gone are the days of glamour ...Galley Gossip: Is it okay for passengers to dump their drinks on the floor during turbulence?
Jul 21st, 2011 at 9:30AM: Dear Heather, Today I heard an announcement in-flight I'd never heard before and was wondering if you make it often, or ever. After serving drinks, it got a little turbulent and the flight attendants had to sit down. A few minutes later the purser came on and said, "if you're having trouble controlling your drinks, please just dump them on the floor." WHAT? And waste all this good wine, I thought. ...Boeing moves flight attendant call button
Jun 22nd, 2011 at 10:00AM: It happens on many flights: you or a seatmate is groping blindly for the reading light or trying to plug earphones into to the armrest, accidentally hitting the flight attendant call button. This may happen several times per flight, causing flight attendants needless trips up and down the aisle to check on embarrassed passengers. It's a pet peeve on the Gadling team, among both crew and other ...Galley Gossip: Age, weight and height requirements for flight attendants (and why Christina Ricci could never be a Pan Am stewardess)
Jun 7th, 2011 at 9:30AM:
"In this male-dominated world, in that famously openly chauvinistic culture, these women were really taking the reins and running their lives in a way most women didn't," Christina Ricci said in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter about her upcoming television show, Pan Am, a night time soap opera revolving around the lives of flight attendants and pilots in the 1960's. Think Mad Men ...Nine groovy retro flight attendant uniforms
May 23rd, 2011 at 3:30PM: Good looks never go out of style, but (thankfully, in some instances) "air hostess" uniforms do. The Los Angeles Times travel section has published this great photo gallery of swinging stews from the "Style in the Aisle" exhibit at Seattle's Museum of Flight.
The exhibit, which runs through May 30th, features flight attendant uniforms from the 1930's through the '70's. Couture designers of the ...
