A flight attendant was in such a hurry to leave LAX Friday night that she left her carry-on bag—and the 60 pounds of cocaine inside it—behind. And if forgetting your luggage weren’t a bad enough way to start the weekend, our girl also left her Gucci shoes.
Here’s a 2016 story that reads like it’s 1968: new women employees working on the cabin crews of British Airways airline have, after a two-year legal battle, won the right to wear trousers on the job. The Guardian reports that the company’s dress code had only applied to women employed under crappier conditions after…
In the year 2016, flight attendants and crew members on the British airline EasyJet will wear uniforms lined with LED lights and sensors. You know what that means: Party in the skyyyyy!!!
Earlier this week a flight attendant who works on Ron Perelman’s private jet was bitten by Barbra Streisand’s 12-year-old fluffball, Samantha, reports Page Six. After petting Sammie “without showing her hand first,” the flight attendant was given a bite that required her to get stitches, and Streisand is…
Delta has announced that Zac Posen, he of the hot femme red carpet gowns and well-tailored runway separates, will be designing their new employee uniforms. Does this mean that gate agents sporting the new duds will look at least ten percent less miserable? Maybe!
Sometimes you've just got to dance. And sometimes, if you're a flight attendant and you need to relieve some stress while entertaining your passengers, you have to dance for them, showing off your sick moves like no one is watching. Except everyone is watching. And it is awesome.
Flight attendants have a job that holds a lot of prestige in the eyes of most travelers, and they get called a lot of different things while doing their jobs — waitress, m'am, hey you, miss, air hostess, and trolley dolly. But one moniker that has pretty much gone out the emergency exit door is "stewardess," and…
My friend Mike* is a First Officer at a regional airline here in the U.S. He's graciously agreed to answer some questions exclusively for Flight Club about being a pilot, as well as addressing some of the rumors that we hear as travelers about everything from sex to slowing your plane down on purpose.
Meet Southwest Airlines flight attendant Martha "Marty" Cobb. If there's one thing she knows, it's how to get the attention of passengers who have probably heard the same airline safety instructions over and over.
Air travel has changed so much since the days of Mad Men, boozing businessmen and socially acceptable sexual harassment. So you'd think that, by now, everyone would have gotten the message to leave the flight attendants the hell alone. Not so, apparently!
A good trick to keep people from scrutinizing your unseemly behavior is to respond, "In this economy?" in an incredulous voice. For instance: if someone comes into my apartment and says, "Your air conditioner is attached to your windowsill with duct tape and it looks extremely terrible," I will reply, "Buying a…
Female flight attendants on South Korea's Asiana Airlines, the country's second largest commercial flight company, might be getting a uniform redesign after lobbying for the company to relax its incredibly strict appearance requirements. Asiana's labor union has been working with South Korea's human rights commission…
If you're a soccer (ugh, fine, football) fan, you'd be hard pressed to find a team bigger or more superstarry than FC Barcelona. But with great fame and power comes great ass ache, as Lionel Messi and his teammates can't seem to go anywhere without getting hounded for autographs and pictures. That's why they've asked…
Virgin Australia is trying to compete with Qantas for all the fancy-pants business class travelers, a move that has prompted some changes to the standard Australian flight attendant mannerisms. No longer will flight attendants, for example, be allowed to greet passengers with that charming Australianism we…
Two ads for the airline Ryanair have been banned in the UK, on the grounds that their pictures of Ryanair employees in their underwear are offensive. Given how much worse shit exists out there, though, the decision is a little surprising.
January 26th was India's Republic Day and a group of Finnair flight attendants put together this awesome Bollywood dance to celebrate. First of all, amazing. Second of all, it is absolute bullshit that nothing this cool has ever happened to me while flying. BOYCOTT THE SKY!
A French newspaper claims that Dominique Strauss-Kahn was such a dick to flight attendants that Air France instituted a policy of only having men deal with him. While that certainly seems in character with DSK's behavior as described by multiple women, the story seems a little thin.
Thailand's ironically-named airline P.C. Air claims it's the first in the world to hire openly transsexual flight attendants. When the airline begins flying Asian routes in April, four transsexual people will be among the 30-person cabin crew, Forbes reports.
Norma Heap started air-hostessing in 1957; 26 million miles later, she's Continental's longest-serving flight-attendant. Says Norma, 74, "I'm just fortunate that I chose something that I enjoy doing...and I've never lost the love for flying or traveling, or serving people."
Rage against the new TSA requirements has tended to erase, or caricature, one very key constituency: air-travel employees. That includes mostly female flight attendants, who, unlike pilots, haven't been exempted from enhanced patdown procedures, as well as reluctant TSA employees.
