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The Flight Attendant Hotel Hotspots of NYC

It may not be the swingin' sixties or even the days when hot pants ruled the sky, but Flight Attendants are still a subject of curiosity. Consummate jet setters, FAs may spend a week hopping between several different cities, but eventually they must say "buh-bye" to the last passengers and spend some time on the ground themselves.

Recently on Facebook, our favorite airline hostess—the Aussie comedian Pam Ann—asked her huge fanbase of flight crew where they stayed when their international flights land in New York City. Are they in swank hotels or by-the-hour rooms out by the airport?

Check out the full (and hilarious) list of replies here, but it looks like NYC's appropriately-named Concorde Hotel for the Radisson Martinique on Broadway, which we've always thought was one of the busiest little hotel entrances in town. Now we know why.

[Pam Ann photo: Jaunted]

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JetBlue Totally Unamused by the Steven Slater Slide Incident

JetBlue CEO Dave Barger gave an interview this week to TheStreet.com, declaring that former flight attendant Steven Slater was "not a hero" and blasting Slater's chute deployment stunt as "an egregious act." The talking points fit squarely into the rest of JetBlue's post-Slater strategy, which started from the very beginning with Twitter frowny faces about all the jokes that were flying around.

The airline was wrong about the humor value of the tweets—some of the ones we rounded up at the time were objectively funny—but the rest of their reaction is reasonable. Their frustration isn't just a public show either. JetBlue's internal memos leave no room for doubt about how seriously they're taking the incident. That's what happens when you blow out a slide that has enough force to kill a person.

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Kelsey Grammer Knocks Up a Virgin Atlantic Flight Attendant

The perks of being a Virgin Atlantic flight attendant working in Upper Class are many, but for VA air hostess Kayte Walsh, those now include a relationship with Frasier and Cheers star Kelsey Grammer.

The 29-year-old Walsh has been dating 55-year-old Grammer for a while after they met somewhere between London and New York, and now it's been announced that the couple is expecting a child, news that comes a month after Grammer's former Playboy model wife filed for divorce.

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The Top Five Naked Travel Incidents of 2010...So Far

5. Flight Attendants strip all over the world: It's a frequent flyer's fantasy, and it's been coming true thus far this year as flight attendants from Spain to Russia and back leave their uniforms in the overhead compartments and hit the runway the bare way. First it was sexy pics of British Airways FAs, then it was girls from Spain's defunct Air Comet stripping for their wages, and even Aeroflot got in on the action with a pinup-perfect calendar of their plane pretties. The coup de grace however was Russian airline Avianova's sexiest airplane commercial ever, which Australian FAs called for a ban on.

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The Funniest Tweets about Jetblue Flight Attendant Steven 'Slip 'n Slide' Slater

Without a doubt you've by now heard the story of Steven "Slip 'n Slide" Slater, the 39-year-old Jetblue flight attendant who on Monday, after getting into a verbal fight with an uncooperative passenger while the plane taxiied to the gate at JFK's Terminal 5, unleashed expletives over the PA, grabbed two beers, opened the emergency exit and inflated the evacuation slide and sent himself down it and made a run for home.

As it turns out, he did escape the airport with both beers, his two carry-ons (which he sent down the slide before him) and was later arrested at his home in Queens while in bed with his partner. He's now facing up to 7 years in prison.

A dramatic way to quit his job to say the least, the epic of Slater has now become an internet meme in its own right, spurring animated flicks of the event, discussions on other craziest ways to quit, and even songs. We've been most entertained by Twitter however, as the witty banter continues. Here, we've gathered up some of the funniest tweets on the topic:

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Flight Attendant Quits Job by Jumping Out on Airplane's Evacuation Slide

Late-breaking (but kinda awesome) news today as NYT's City Room blog states that a Jetblue flight attendant exited his airplane at Terminal 5 at JFK via the inflatable emergency slide. Steven Slater, 39, was arrested at his home not far away in Belle Harbor, Queens. He was charged with reckless endangerment and criminal mischief.

The dramatic finale wasn't a result of issues with the airline, but with an "uncooperative" passenger onboard the flight from Pittsburgh to New York. Says the NYT:

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Turkish Airlines Flight Attendants Must Lose Weight or Lose Their Jobs

The arguments over overweight flight attendants play out a little differently than the near constant fights that travelers have about overweight passengers. Both are somewhat about safety, but that's roughly where the similarities end. With overweight rowmates, the day-to-day issues are about comfort. People invoke the "what if there's a one-in-a-million crash and I can't get out" argument to sound that much more legitimate (that and they make hay out of, umm, fitting into lavatories).

When airlines suspend overweight flight attendants, like Turkish Airlines just did to 28 of their employees, the safety issue certainly makes an appearance. It's probably even more legitimate than it is with passengers, since crews actually do play a critical role in flight safety even during non-emergencies. But the real issue is about looks, and about how much customers want their Diet Coke served by someone who looks svelte in a uniform, even if half of the suspended crew were men. And airlines aren't even shy about pointing that out.

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Cathay Pacific's New Ad Campaign Sucks

Virgin America had their Fly Girls reality TV program, which tracked the airline's obnoxiously bitchy but inexplicably fascinating flight attendants; Southwest recently shot a gigantic commercial to emphasize the LCC's employees; and so now Cathy Pacific is launching their own crew-focused advertising campaign, wherein they'll leverage print, television, and digital media to...showcase their executives, flight attendants and pilots.

"It’s the best campaign we’ve ever done," said some guy in the press release that the New York Times transformed into an article.

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Emirates Flight Attendants Played a Big Part in the World Cup Final

Who were those women in veils behind the South African president and other FIFA officials during the World Cup trophy presentation yesterday? Why, they were flight attendants for Emirates Airlines, a major sponsor of the 2010 World Cup who obviously gave enough money to get their girls up in the spotlight.

Following yesterday's final match between Spain and Holland, which Spain won with a single goal during stoppage time, a whole line of these khaki-clad, red-lipped ladies emerged with trays of the player's medals. Asking who they were was a popular question echoed across Twitter, but the answer lay in the big red ad banners for Emirates around the field. They also showed up the day before to present the third place prize to the German team.

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Australian Flight Attendants Call for Ban on the Sexiest Airline Ad Ever

Flight attendants are up to their sexy mischief again, right? Wrong. On Monday we caught you up on the most recent perk being given to male Aeroflot VIPs, a calendar filled with some of the Russian airline's flight attendants being very, very naked. This gift was in some ways an implicit response to an arguably more provocative ad from Russian LCC Avianova, which involves bikini-clad stewardesses soaping down an airplane for no discernible reason (cost-cutting maybe?).

Don't worry, you can view the whole titillating commercial below, but first let's discuss how Australia's flight attendants are calling for a ban on it.

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This Year, Aeroflot VIP Flyers Get a Calendar Full of Nude Flight Attendants

Of all the NSFW flight attendant posts we've done—and we've done more than a couple recently—this is by far the NSFW-iest of all. Russia's national airline Aeroflot regularly mails out gifts to its VIP loyalty program members, and this year they've settled on one perk designed to literally perk up their male customers.

The company will send out a 2011 calendar that fits nicely into the rest of Russia's sex-soaked culture, where each page has one of the airline's female flight attendants in some state of undress. And by "some state" we mean "totally, completely, unapologetically naked." Between this and last year's Aeroflot news, it seems like Aeroflot's cabin crew is perpetually just a video camera and a bong hit away from a debaucherous drug-fueled orgy. Which is kind of awesome.

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Your Next Virgin America Flight Might Have Hot Australian Flight Attendants

Who's ready to hang out with some hot Aussies onboard Virgin America? No, the still-rather-new domestic airline isn't flying over the Pacific yet, but instead bringing some of their fellow Virgins into a crew-exchange program, whereby Virgin Blue flight attendants can come work the friendly US skies while their Virgin America colleagues similarly head down to Oz.

The program mirrors one already in place between Virgin Atlantic and Virgin Blue, and the girls will be based in San Francisco, but flying throughout Virgin America's route network for one solid year. While the Americans do the same on Virgin Blue, the Aussie FAs will act as cultural ambassadors, making use of their alluring accents and enthusiasm for Australia to subliminally get you thinking about a trip to Oz. It's like a "walking, talking mini tourism campaign being waged across the skies of both countries," says Director of People for Virgin America, Christine Morehead.

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