Lessons from a burning plane: What the media didn't tell you about a near disaster in Asia.
By Patrick Smith Sep 7, 2007
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Woman kicked off flight after refusing to medicate her child into silence.
By Carol Lloyd
July 12, 2007
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From "cross-check" to "wind shear": A glossary of airline-speak for the curious passenger.
By Patrick Smith
May 4, 2007
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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
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Will it be a waste of my education if I do what I really really want?
By Cary Tennis
April 4, 2006
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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
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Every now and then, flight attendants must fly with the unwashed masses. It sucks.
By Elliott Neal Hester
December 14, 2000
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Turbulence strikes while I'm in the lavatory, and I become a virtual Peter Pan.
By Elliott Neal Hester
September 22, 2000
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Finally, the time had come for me to face Big Bertha -- the airborne antichrist.
By Elliott Neal Hester
September 8, 2000
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While fantasizing about a Salma Hayek wannabe, I accidentally broke the plane.
By Elliott Neal Hester
August 25, 2000
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"Flight attendants should get hazardous duty pay"
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June 21, 2000
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Can a passenger be thrown off a plane for offensive body odor?
By Elliott Neal Hester
April 18, 2000
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Flight attendants can fly anywhere for almost nothing -- but sometimes, there's a catch.
By Elliott Neal Hester
March 21, 2000
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A grateful, if trembling, reader writes: Flight attendants, they're worth their wings.
By Elliott Neal Hester
February 29, 2000
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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
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An in-flight emergency totally transforms the behavior of passengers -- and flight attendants.
By Elliott Neal Hester
January 25, 2000
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Sometimes even high-flying airline pilots turn out to have feet of clay.
By Elliott Neal Hester
January 11, 2000
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Too many bags and too few bins make frequent flyers cry foul.
By Elliott Neal Hester
December 22, 1999
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From cucarachas to dachshunds, flight attendants contend with a mind-boggling menagerie of stowaways.
By Elliott Neal Hester
November 16, 1999
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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
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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
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When a man goes berserk on board, what can a flight attendant do?
By Elliott Neal Hester
August 17, 1999
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Only the strongest flight attendants survived this legendary New York-Puerto Rico flight.
By Elliott Neal Hester
August 3, 1999
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When you spend half your life in hotels, you learn a lot about your neighbors.
By Elliott Neal Hester
July 13, 1999
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Sometimes turbulence is just the start of your problems.
By Elliott Neal Hester
June 29, 1999