Elliott Neal Hester

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  • What are you doing New Year's Eve?

    How Salon Travel's favorite writers plan to ring in the new year.
    By Don George December 31, 1999

  • 'Tis the season to be pissed off

    Too many bags and too few bins make frequent flyers cry foul.
    By Elliott Neal Hester December 22, 1999

  • Coping with the EgyptAir mystery

    When you work at 30,000 feet, you don't want to doubt the pilot.
    By Elliott Neal Hester December 7, 1999

  • Roaches, rats and other unticketed passengers

    From cucarachas to dachshunds, flight attendants contend with a mind-boggling menagerie of stowaways.
    By Elliott Neal Hester November 16, 1999

  • The agony of the long-distance commuter

    For some flight attendants, three airports and 2,500 miles isn't a major trip -- it's a normal journey to work.
    By Elliott Neal Hester November 2, 1999

  • Confessions of a onetime ramp rat

    Two months as an airport baggage-handler almost cost me my life.
    By Elliott Neal Hester October 19, 1999

  • Welcome to the Mile-High Club

    Our flying correspondent relates some true tales of sex in the skies.
    By Elliott Neal Hester September 21, 1999

  • Flying in the age of air rage

    When pilots are stabbed to death and flight attendants are taken to the hospital in ambulances, the skies are out of control.
    By Elliott Neal Hester September 7, 1999

  • The passenger from hell

    When a man goes berserk on board, what can a flight attendant do?
    By Elliott Neal Hester August 17, 1999

  • When fists flew on the San Juan Special

    Only the strongest flight attendants survived this legendary New York-Puerto Rico flight.
    By Elliott Neal Hester August 3, 1999

  • Sex and the thin-walled room

    When you spend half your life in hotels, you learn a lot about your neighbors.
    By Elliott Neal Hester July 13, 1999

  • Flying the queasy skies

    Sometimes turbulence is just the start of your problems.
    By Elliott Neal Hester June 29, 1999

  • We can't forget

    After a few weeks, consumers will move beyond the American Airlines crash. But flight attendants won't.
    By Elliott Neal Hester June 8, 1999

  • Fool for lust

    A woman named Rita inspires a flight attendant to woo her halfway around the world -- on standby.
    By Elliott Neal Hester May 25, 1999

  • Out of the mouths of passengers

    Flight attendants hear the craziest things.
    By Elliott Neal Hester May 11, 1999

  • Crime is in the air

    Sometimes even flight attendants can't believe the things that happen onboard.
    By Elliott Neal Hester April 27, 1999

  • Bad passenger, bad!

    Ah, the glamorous life of the flight attendant, where you get punched, kicked and defecated upon.
    By Elliott Neal Hester April 13, 1999
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