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5 Flight Attendant Must Pack Layover Items
Now more than ever it’s so important to pack well as a flight attendant. Some of my friends have gotten stuck in hotels for days or weeks at a time because they’ve gotten covid while on a layover. Luckily this hasn’t happened to me yet but I don’t want to be stuck somewhere with nothing to do! So here are my must pack layover items that I always have in my suitcase as a flight attendant. Fire stick or other streaming device I always pack my fire stick so that I can watch all my favorite shows on my layover. I just hook it into the back of the hotel…
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Feature Friday – @thevictorialeighproject
Welcome back to another Feature Friday post! In the past year I have created so many friendships with flight attendants, travel bloggers and craft beerstagrammers! I really wanted to start showing off some of my favorite people that I’ve met and start building up a community of like minded people. If you’d like to be part of a future feature Friday please email me: willtravelforbeer@thehoppyflightattendant.com Or message me on Instagram @thehoppyflightattendant Below meet my friend Victoria or as she’s know on Instagram and Youtube @thevictorialeighproject. She just moved across the country into a brand new home and got some amazing news that she will be returning to the friendly skies after being furloughed…
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Missing the Flight Attendant Life During Quarantine
I’ve been on voluntary leave for over 2 weeks now to help my company get through the Covid-19 epidemic and I miss flying so much already. Since I’m no longer considered an essential employee I’m on quarantine with everyone else, no more flight attendant life for me for the next 2-3 months! It’s been nice to catch up on my writing and reading, cook more and spend time with the boyfriend and the cat. However I’m already missing everything about my usual lifestyle. Being grounded as a flight attendant isn’t easy and I still got 6 more weeks to go. Let’s just say I’m running out of things to clean…
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What not to do on an airplane
Just like everywhere else in the world there are people that don’t make any sense or are making their life way more complicated than necessary. In the airline business I like to call them questionable passengers. The following is a list I’ve compiled of the most questionable passengers onboard an airplane and all the odd, confusing and stupid things they do. I’m pretty sure TSA does something to people’s brains when they go through. That or travel is just that stressful for some people. People who travel with soft guitar cases & other soft cases for various expensive instruments and expect them to not get ruined or expect us to…
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Did you know Flight Attendants don’t get paid during boarding?
My LEAST favorite part of my job is without a doubt, boarding the plane. Mostly because it’s the hardest part of the day and I’m not getting paid. Let me repeat that for those of you wearing headphones and not paying attention, FLIGHT ATTENDANTS DON’T GET PAID DURING BOARDING. Okay that’s a bit of lie, I’m making about $2 an hour at this point. Once boarding is over and the plane starts moving I start making the “big bucks.” Other reasons why boarding a plane is the worst: People have lost their common sense. Some people have never flown before and have no clue what is going on or how to…
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10 Things Your Flight Attendant Doesn’t Know
There are so many things that we get asked on a daily basis that we don’t have the answers to. So I’ll just save you the trouble by writing up this blog post telling you what your flight attendant doesn’t know so you don’t even have to bother asking next time. Trust me, I really wish I could ease your anxiety and be able to tell you all the things you want to hear. Unfortunately that is not the case. So I spend most days making up answers or just telling everyone I don’t know, cause I don’t. 1. Your Flight Attendant doesn’t know what city we are currently flying…
