Do you ever feel bad for flight attendants? After getting hassled by rude passengers, spending hours and hours locked on planes and getting jerked around by management, they then have to find a place to stay for the night. (The airlines only comp hotel rooms on layovers.) You can help out--and make a few bucks--by renting flight attendants and pilots beds at your place.
Setting up a "crashpad" is easier than you think, if you've got some extra space and live close to an airport, says the LA Times:
Crashpad layouts vary with the property and may be a spare room in someone's home or an entire house devoted to airline renters...many crew members look for crashpads that have kitchen privileges, WiFi, nearby restaurants or a grocery store, laundry and, of course, close proximity or convenient transportation to the airport.
Sleeping arrangements are usually same sex and same profession: Pilots tend to bunk with other pilots and flight attendants with other flight attendants.
We can only imagine the shenanigans that you could get up to hosting a bunch of pilots and FAs at your house. Then again, like anyone else, they probably just want to chill after they're finally off the clock.
It's been a long time since young ladies in hot pants were strutting down the aisles of planes in the United States. But they do things a bit differently in South Korea: Being a beautiful flight attendant is such a posh gig, women sign up for classes to improve their odds of getting the job.
The ANC Flight Attendant Academy is one such school, where 20-somethings practice cabin announcements in English--and how to apply makeup. Since its such a competitive field, students say, women will diet, get skin treatments and even try plastic surgery to up their chances of getting hired.
While that may sound bad to some feminists, the norm in Korea is for women to be given limited responsibilities in the workplace. So even though appearance may play a part in getting hired, at least one potential FA doesn't mind:
[Being a] flight attendant is a professional job for a woman, so it's good for us.
Qantas offshoot and LCC Jetstar has made more of a habit of hitting our headlines with good news than bad--they have mystery shoppers to keep standards high, and the airline wants us to be able to fly long haul from Oz to Europe on the cheap.
Of course, a bad news headline was waiting just around the corner: An ex-flight attendant claims that while she was a passenger on a flight from Sydney to Phuket, the Aussie soldiers sitting near her spiked her bottle of water while she was in the bathroom. She passed out, wet herself, and came to an hour later, in her words, "mortified and devastated".
We're not sure what's going on here, but the odd part is that she didn't complain to the airline--she just told a television network. Jetstar says they only have a record of her falling ill and being cared for in a curtained-off crew area. Whatever the real story, we might just be taking our water bottles with us to the bathroom in future.
That's Delta's new safety video above. It's been making the rounds on the Internets recently and stirring up quite the dedicated fan base for Katherine Lee, a.k.a. "Deltalina," the real-life Delta flight attendant featured in the clip. Yeah, she's cute.
As you can see, in today's airline industry, there is no more valuable an asset than a shiny-haired employee with a soothing voice. Both Deltalina and her comrade-in-spirit, Sir Chuck Ogilvie of Virgin America, have been pimped out by their respective employers, and with good reason. These two need to record a book on tape together--we'd buy, like, 1200 copies or more. SkyMall would sell out of them in record time.
Also, they belong together. In holy matrimony. Forever!
Virgin America has some mood-lit bus shelters around San Francisco to hype the airline's classy on-board lighting. But the sexy posters plastered inside are apparently too cool to just admire while waiting on the corner.
eBay user biggpudge23 managed to snag one of the 4' by 6' posters and has it up on the auction site. (It's one of the new ads featuring real-life flight attendants glamming it up in the cabin. See it here.) No one's bid on it yet, so the asking price of $10 still stands.
Is the fact that we think that's a great deal further proof that we're complete airline dorks? Yes. Yes it is.
Not doing anything important this morning? Always dreamed of being a flying salesperson? Can't get enough of those $10 flights? Get thee to Greensboro, North Carolina and try out to become a Skybus flight attendant.
The airline, which is adding some new routes soon, is looking to hire more crews for its base at Piedmont Triad International.
While we hear the pay is pretty low, the casual uniform is a plus. And of course you'll earn commissions on everything from food to tchatchkes, so you can up your paycheck with the right sales strategies.
The interviews start at 9 am, so get yourself together and report to Greensboro pronto. If you can't make it today, the airline's recruiting in Columbus on March 20.
O. M. G. Here's the trailer for now-censored Thai soap opera "Air Hostess War." As if you needed a reason beyond the name to love this show, the crying steward at the 24 second mark should do the trick.
Though the new version of the program won't have any flight attendant-on-flight attendant cat fights, it'll still be awesome by the looks of these clips.
We've heard of high school exchange students or even swapping a teacher or two, but this is the first time we've known of a flight attendant exchange program. The ultra-glamorous flight attendants of Korean Air are about to be involved in an exchange program with their counterparts from China Southern Airlines.
Basically, the Korean Air gang has promised to help the China Southern crew learn the ropes; attendants from both airlines will work together on Korean Air routes between South Korea and China. The exchange bit happens when some Korean Air attendants turn up on China Southern flights, with the express purpose to "provide the most attentive service to the Korean passengers".
With the Beijing Olympics around the corner, Korean Air is keen to impress the large Chinese market, although the airline may not be too successful if they give the most attentive service to the Korean passengers. All we want to know is which flight attendants need to trade places to get us the most attentive service.
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