Flight Attendants Share Eye-Opening Stories and Facts About Air Travel

When I was younger, I thought it’d be fun to be a flight attendant: they get to fly to exotic places on the company dime, and they look so glamorous strolling through the airport with their uniforms and their rollaboard bags. As I’ve gotten older, I’ve learned that it’s not nearly as glamorous as it seems. Flight attendants might get to see the world, but they also have to deal with passengers, who are often angry, rude, drunk, messy, ill, or all five. And I suspect that when you’re seeing the daily workings of the air industry and seeing how the sausage gets made, it takes a lot of the fun and magic out of air travel.

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