Flight Attendants

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Ask the pilot
Lessons from a burning plane: What the media didn't tell you about a near disaster in Asia.
Flying the child-unfriendly skies
Woman kicked off flight after refusing to medicate her child into silence.
Ask the Pilot
From "cross-check" to "wind shear": A glossary of airline-speak for the curious passenger.
Ask the pilot
Flight attendant, stewardess, trolley dolly. Whatever you call her, she was once a high-fashion sex symbol. At some airlines, the image lives on.
I'm a gifted high achiever who wants to be a flight attendant
Will it be a waste of my education if I do what I really really want?
What cost air safety?
Flight attendants demand that flying be made safer, through measures like screening all bags -- but the airlines are resisting.
Common cattle
Every now and then, flight attendants must fly with the unwashed masses. It sucks.
Wham! Bam! Rocky times in the skies
Turbulence strikes while I'm in the lavatory, and I become a virtual Peter Pan.
The flight attendant from hell
Finally, the time had come for me to face Big Bertha -- the airborne antichrist.
How my ass ended up in a sling
While fantasizing about a Salma Hayek wannabe, I accidentally broke the plane.
Wacky airline adventures are "first class"
"Flight attendants should get hazardous duty pay"
Flying the stinky skies
Can a passenger be thrown off a plane for offensive body odor?
The sky's the limit
Flight attendants can fly anywhere for almost nothing -- but sometimes, there's a catch.
Thank you!
A grateful, if trembling, reader writes: Flight attendants, they're worth their wings.
Tests, drugs and swollen bladders
Random drug tests for flight attendants mean saving a bladder full of urine. Fair enough, but the tests aren't always right.
Staring death in the eye
An in-flight emergency totally transforms the behavior of passengers -- and flight attendants.
Fly boy faux pas
Sometimes even high-flying airline pilots turn out to have feet of clay.
'Tis the season to be pissed off
Too many bags and too few bins make frequent flyers cry foul.
Roaches, rats and other unticketed passengers
From cucarachas to dachshunds, flight attendants contend with a mind-boggling menagerie of stowaways.
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.
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.
The passenger from hell
When a man goes berserk on board, what can a flight attendant do?
When fists flew on the San Juan Special
Only the strongest flight attendants survived this legendary New York-Puerto Rico flight.
Sex and the thin-walled room
When you spend half your life in hotels, you learn a lot about your neighbors.
Flying the queasy skies
Sometimes turbulence is just the start of your problems.
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