Flight Attendants

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Lessons from a burning plane: What the media didn't tell you about a near disaster in Asia.
By Patrick Smith Sep 7, 2007

  • Flying the child-unfriendly skies

    Woman kicked off flight after refusing to medicate her child into silence.
    By Carol Lloyd July 12, 2007

  • Ask the Pilot

    From "cross-check" to "wind shear": A glossary of airline-speak for the curious passenger.
    By Patrick Smith May 4, 2007

  • 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.
    By Patrick Smith February 9, 2007

  • 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?
    By Cary Tennis April 4, 2006

  • What cost air safety?

    Flight attendants demand that flying be made safer, through measures like screening all bags -- but the airlines are resisting.
    By Jake Tapper October 8, 2001

  • Common cattle

    Every now and then, flight attendants must fly with the unwashed masses. It sucks.
    By Elliott Neal Hester December 14, 2000

  • Wham! Bam! Rocky times in the skies

    Turbulence strikes while I'm in the lavatory, and I become a virtual Peter Pan.
    By Elliott Neal Hester September 22, 2000

  • The flight attendant from hell

    Finally, the time had come for me to face Big Bertha -- the airborne antichrist.
    By Elliott Neal Hester September 8, 2000

  • How my ass ended up in a sling

    While fantasizing about a Salma Hayek wannabe, I accidentally broke the plane.
    By Elliott Neal Hester August 25, 2000

  • Wacky airline adventures are "first class"

    "Flight attendants should get hazardous duty pay"
    By June 21, 2000

  • Flying the stinky skies

    Can a passenger be thrown off a plane for offensive body odor?
    By Elliott Neal Hester April 18, 2000

  • The sky's the limit

    Flight attendants can fly anywhere for almost nothing -- but sometimes, there's a catch.
    By Elliott Neal Hester March 21, 2000

  • Thank you!

    A grateful, if trembling, reader writes: Flight attendants, they're worth their wings.
    By Elliott Neal Hester February 29, 2000

  • 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.
    By Elliott Neal Hester February 15, 2000

  • Staring death in the eye

    An in-flight emergency totally transforms the behavior of passengers -- and flight attendants.
    By Elliott Neal Hester January 25, 2000

  • Fly boy faux pas

    Sometimes even high-flying airline pilots turn out to have feet of clay.
    By Elliott Neal Hester January 11, 2000

  • '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

  • 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

  • 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
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