This week Sara and Bobby answer your questions about being a flight attendant. In the news this week:
Disclaimer: The views expressed are the personal opinions of the participants and do not necessarily reflect the views of their employers.
Steven Slater was already having a bad day. He had just landed at JFK from Pittsburgh a tad late and his passengers were restless. One even got up to fetch her hand baggage while the aircraft was still on its way to the gate. Slater told the woman to sit down, but she just ignored him. More forcefully, he told her to leave the carry-on bag in the overhead bin and to immediately be seated.
She continued to flout his instructions, so he got up to confront her. As he neared her seat, she ...
On the last upgrd.com podcast, we talked a bit about New York airports. The consensus seemed to be that flying in or out of Newark isn't necessarily any more inconvenient than flying out of JFK or LGA.
Turns out that someone at JetBlue disagrees.
I stayed at the Crowne Plaza by Newark the last couple nights, even though I flew in and out of JFK (the client is in that part of New Jersey, but flying into EWR on AA would have cost way more than flying into JFK, so if I wanted to ...
This week we are honored to be joined by the "front end" of the aircraft. Kyle and John, two commercial airline pilots, together we discussed:
The pilots view of the flight attendant role crew briefings federal flight deck officers (FFDO) pilot chat during cruise relations between the two work groups (get your mind out of the gutter) forgetting FA's names the all important crew food subject and more...We hope to see you every week ...
As Joel McHale would say: "Let's talk about chicks, man."
In honor of the ridiculously smoking hot flight attendant I recently had the pleasure of seeing on a SkyWest flight, I'm starting a photo gallery of hot flight attendants that you can see here.
There's nothing there at the moment - which might lead you to believe - that's right - that this will be a group effort. Here are the rules:
Send your photos to me at hunter@upgrd.com. Take them ...I'm currently reading an interesting book by Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein. It's called Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness. The book is basically about the ways that we can "nudge" people to make good decisions without eliminating their freedom of choice. For example, workers in a school cafeteria can "nudge" students to make healthier choices by giving prime placement to healthy foods. Kids can still choose junk food, but the ...
