Voices
GEORGE
HOBICA
HUFFINGTON
01.13.13
GRAHAM MONRO/GM PHOTOGRAPHICS/GETTY IMAGES
17 Things
Your Flight
Attendant
Won’t
Tell You
EVER WONDER what your flight
attendant really thinks of you?
What they’d tell you if they had
the nerve? Or weren’t afraid of being fired? What deep, dark secrets
would they reveal about their jobs?
I have a number of friends who
work as flight attendants. One
of them recently retired after 20
years flying for the most storied
name in commercial aviation,
while others work for less glam-
orous domestic U.S. airlines.
I asked them what they’d tell
their passengers if they could tell
them anything at all, or what secrets they’d reveal only if granted
complete anonymity. All I can say
is that these people do not represent every single flight attendant
in the skies, so if you’re a flight
attendant yourself, please hold
your fire and don’t shoot the
messenger. But I didn’t make this
stuff up. What you read here may
shock you, or make you laugh,
I’m not sure which.
George
Hobica is a
syndicated
travel
journalist