Download or read book Memoir of a Flight Attendant written by Margo D. Anderson and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-01-29 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intriguing, uncensored, inside view of the not-so-friendly skies through the eyes of former flight attendant, Margo Anderson. If you are a frequent flier, or if you plan to fly in the near future, fasten your seat belt for a turbulent read! After five years of flying with a commuter airline based at Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, Anderson draws on her personal experiences and conversations, painting a portrayal of life as a flight attendant--grueling twelve hour days, complaining and unfriendly passengers, and unexpected, almost unbelievable situations, especially in the days and weeks following 9/11. Anderson navigates the complex world of flight crews with clarity, insight, wittiness, and her own special brand of humor. Readers are given a view of flying they may never have seen before, through the lens of the workhorse of the airline industry, regarded by many as the "puddle-jumpers," the commuter airlines.
Download or read book Fly Girl A Memoir written by Ann Hood and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2022-05-03 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An entertaining and fascinating memoir of “gifted storyteller” (People) Ann Hood’s adventurous years as a TWA flight attendant. In 1978, in the tailwind of the golden age of air travel, flight attendants were the epitome of glamor and sophistication. Fresh out of college and hungry to experience the world—and maybe, one day, write about it—Ann Hood joined their ranks. After a grueling job search, Hood survived TWA’s rigorous Breech Training Academy and learned to evacuate seven kinds of aircraft, deliver a baby, mix proper cocktails, administer oxygen, and stay calm no matter what the situation. In the air, Hood found both the adventure she’d dreamt of and the unexpected realities of life on the job. She carved chateaubriand in the first-class cabin and dined in front of the pyramids in Cairo, fended off passengers’ advances and found romance on layovers in London and Lisbon, and walked more than a million miles in high heels. She flew through the start of deregulation, an oil crisis, massive furloughs, and a labor strike. As the airline industry changed around her, Hood began to write—even drafting snatches of her first novel from the jump-seat. She reveals how the job empowered her, despite its roots in sexist standards. Packed with funny, moving, and shocking stories of life as a flight attendant, Fly Girl captures the nostalgia and magic of air travel at its height, and the thrill that remains with every takeoff.
Download or read book Cruising Attitude written by Heather Poole and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2012-03-06 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Real-life flight attendant Heather Poole has written a charming and funny insider’s account of life and work in the not-always-friendly skies. Cruising Attitude is a Coffee, Tea, or Me? for the 21st century, as the author parlays her fifteen years of flight experience into a delightful account of crazy airline passengers and crew drama, of overcrowded crashpads in “Crew Gardens” Queens and finding love at 35,000 feet. The popular author of “Galley Gossip,” a weekly column for AOL’s award-winning travel website Gadling.com, Poole not only shares great stories, but also explains the ins and outs of flying, as seen from the flight attendant’s jump seat.
Download or read book Secrets of a Metaphysical Flight Attendant written by Rebecca Tripp with Bryna René and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Secrets of a Metaphysical Flight Attendant is a spiritual memoir that explores the symbiotic relationship between thought and reality and proves that we really do have the power to create our lives. With lighthearted wit, piercing clarity, and unapologetic insight, Rebecca Tripp delivers her tale of a life lived in motion. In 1967, Rebecca left her sleepy seaside hometown to navigate a new life at 35,000 feet as a "sky goddess" with United Airlines. With barely a flicker of her false eyelashes, she was plunged into a rapidly shifting world of glamour gods and Playboy bunnies, first-class fliers and spiritual seekers. As a fun-loving "stew," Rebecca literally had the world at her feet. Yet, something was missing. Life was coming at her--not the other way around. How could she take back the controls and create the life she really wanted? Over the next thirty-five years, through many adventures both enlightening and traumatic, Rebecca transformed herself from doe-eyed innocent to mature, powerful manifestress. Tapping the power of the spiritual realm, she overcame fear, doubt, toxic relationships, rape, and even cancer--simply by shifting her thought. Her experiences, shared with the wisdom of a lifetime, demonstrate that we all have the power to heal our minds and bodies and create our lives according to our greatest desires.
Download or read book Secrets of a Sky Princess written by Carol Guffey and published by . This book was released on 2012-11 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Secrets of a Sky Princess" gives readers rare insight into the serious aspects of an award-winning flight attendant's career and provides many amusing and entertaining anecdotes involving passengers and flight crews abroad the aircraft and in the airport.
Download or read book Stars in the Sky written by Casey Grant and published by . This book was released on 2014-11 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In all of the stories about aviation and its history, the stories of the first African American stewardesses have been left untold and unknown. We first took to the skies when flying was glamorous and exclusive, when little girls dreamt of being stewardesses, models, or movie stars. We rubbed elbows with the elite and traveled the world when few others could. We flew as pioneers in a global society long before the times of the Internet and globalizaiton. We also kept our heads high, facing down racial prejudice and discrimination. We lived as stars of the sky. I was one of the first African American stewardesses for Delta Air Lines, and I worked alongside other pioneers for almost thrity-five years as co-adventureres and friends. This book tells my story and theirs."--Author's notes.
Download or read book Come Fly the World written by Julia Cooke and published by Houghton Mifflin. This book was released on 2021 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A lively, unexpected portrait of the jet-age stewardesses serving on iconic Pan Am airways between 1966 and 1975"--
Download or read book The Flight Attendant written by Chris Bohjalian and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2018-03-13 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A powerful thriller about the ways an entire life can change in one night: A flight attendant wakes up in the wrong hotel, in the wrong bed, with a dead man—and no idea what happened. • Don't miss the acclaimed HBO Max series! Cassandra Bowden is no stranger to hungover mornings. She's a binge drinker, her job with the airline making it easy to find adventure, and the occasional blackouts seem to be inevitable. She lives with them, and the accompanying self-loathing. When she awakes in a Dubai hotel room, she tries to piece the previous night back together, counting the minutes until she has to catch her crew shuttle to the airport. She quietly slides out of bed, careful not to aggravate her already pounding head, and looks at the man she spent the night with. She sees his dark hair. His utter stillness. And blood, a slick, still wet pool on the crisp white sheets. Afraid to call the police—she's a single woman alone in a hotel room far from home—Cassie begins to lie. She lies as she joins the other flight attendants and pilots in the van. She lies on the way to Paris as she works the first class cabin. She lies to the FBI agents in New York who meet her at the gate. Soon it's too late to come clean-or face the truth about what really happened back in Dubai. Could she have killed him? If not, who did? Set amid the captivating world of those whose lives unfold at forty thousand feet, The Flight Attendant unveils a spellbinding story of memory, of the giddy pleasures of alcohol and the devastating consequences of addiction, and of murder far from home. Look for Chris Bohjalian's new novel, The Lioness!
Download or read book The Plane Truth From An American Airlines Flight Attendant written by Alicia Lutz Rolow and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2008-12 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author writes on the unsafe practices by commercial airlines and tells of poor treatment of employees.
Download or read book Life Love and a Hijacking written by Wendy Sue Knecht and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-11 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sit back, relax, and enjoy the read as Wendy Sue regales you with stories about a time when travel was truly glamorous. As a flight attendant who flew for the world's most iconic airline, Pan Am, anything was possible-- even the improbable. It was an enlightening journey, and you're sure to have a great laugh and a good cry along the way.
Download or read book Secrets of a Sky Princess written by Carol Guffey and published by Outskirts Press. This book was released on 2012-11 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Soar across a continent to exciting, fun-filled destinations with Flight Attendant Carol Guffey as she reveals first-hand what it is like to work at a unique and glamorous job 30,000 feet up in the sky. From training to retirement, follow her career at Atlantic Southeast Airlines as she encounters adventure and romance with a dashing pilot, danger in the sky aboard a burning aircraft, tragedy when two ASA aircraft crash, and a dire emergency where she struggles to save the life of a dying pilot. This book gives readers rare insight into the serious aspects of an award-winning flight attendant's career and provides many amusing and entertaining anecdotes involving passengers and flight crews aboard the aircraft and in the airport. You will learn little-known details and secrets about the hard work, long hours, and day-to-day routine of a working flight attendant as Carol sweeps you along with her on a busy twelve-hour day. From signing in at the airport to arriving at her hotel room that night, her job runs the gamut from grubby to glamorous, as you will see. Fly along with Carol, the Sky Princess, to Canada, Mexico, and across the United States. Go behind the scenes at airports and hotels and into locked cockpits to learn what being a flight attendant really entails, as it has never been told before. Everyone who has ever flown, or has any interest in flying, will love this book. It will inspire potential flight attendants and should be read by every flight attendant-trainee.
Download or read book Confessions of a Qantas Flight Attendant written by Owen Beddall and published by Random House Australia. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Want to know what really goes on on an aeroplane? Let's go behind the scenes and fly high with these tall tales and gossip from the galley! Everyone wants to be a flight attendant, or at least they want to know about the cushy lifestyle they lead – flying to exotic destinations, swanning about in five-star hotels, daytime lazing around the pool and night-time tabletop dancing with Bollywood stars. At last the lid is lifted. Come on board a real airline with a real flight attendant and find out what really goes on. In Confessions of a Qantas Flight Attendant – True Tales and Gossip from the Galley, Owen Beddall dishes the dirt – he tells you the things you always wanted to know (and maybe a few things you didn’t) about the glamorous world of flying. This book is packed with cabin crew adventures and misadventures in and out of that smart uniform in far flung places. There’s sex, drugs and lots of celebrity gossip; Katy Perry, Lily Allen, Kylie Minogue, Venus Williams and Cate Blanchett – are all in the galley having a gossip with Owen. Confessions of a Qantas Flight Attendant is a hilariously bumpy ride around the world with a very funny man.
Download or read book Dear Passenger written by Elizabeth Calwell and published by . This book was released on 2018-05-30 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dear Passenger is packed with three decades of amusing anecdotes and episodes that have happened on and off the airplane. A small town upbringing gives Elizabeth a unique Southern perspective on the antics of passengers and unusual happenings while traveling. Elizabeth Calwell, a flight attendant and a writer, has produced this comedy memoir titled Dear Passenger Welcome to My Wacky World as a Flight Attendant. She has discovered she is a magnet for bizarre incidents, on the ground as well as in mid-air. Here are some tales of the strange, the unexplained, and the downright hilarious from her world as a flight attendant. On every trip a unique experience just falls out of the blue. These stories include dead bodies in garment bags, a stowaway rooster, and the hilarious antics of passengers and crewmembers on the airplane. All these things have really happened---to her, or to her flying buddies during her twenty-seven years working with a major airline. Have you ever wondered about the life of a flight attendant? Or if you've had a hard day at work and need to escape your on the ground job, put on your seat belt and join the author at 35,000 feet. She can tell you all about it. Welcome aboard!
Download or read book Up in the Air written by Betty Riegel and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-03-28 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York, 1961: the dawn of the commercial Jet Age and a golden era of air travel. Betty Riegel spent her early childhood hiding in air-raid shelters as bombs dropped all around. From humble working-class roots, growing up with a mother who struggled to make ends meet and a father away at war, she had always dreamed of bigger things. After responding to an advert in the local newspaper she secured herself an interview for the Pan Am training programme, and at just 22-years-old was selected from thousands of eager young British women to begin a career that would change the course of her life. Betty said goodbye to everything she knew and boarded a plane to New York, a city full of noise, towering skyscrapers and promise. Under the watchful eye of her 'housemother', Dottie, Betty mastered the art of being the perfect Pan Am stewardess; everything from faultless etiquette, geography and safety to seamless make-up application, how to charm influential passengers and preparing five-course Parisian cuisine at 37,000 feet. But no amount of training could have prepared her for the rollercoaster of life in the air. Up in the Aircharts the gruelling yet fabulous life aboard the most iconic airline there has ever been, and how a young woman from Essex opened her eyes to the world and lived her dream.
Download or read book The Great Stewardess Rebellion written by Nell McShane Wulfhart and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2022-04-19 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The empowering true story of a group of spirited stewardesses who “stood up to huge corporations and won, creating momentous change for all working women.” (Gloria Steinem, co-founder of Ms. magazine) It was the Golden Age of Travel, and everyone wanted in. As flying boomed in the 1960s, women from across the United States applied for jobs as stewardesses. They were drawn to the promise of glamorous jet-setting, the chance to see the world, and an alternative to traditional occupations like homemaking, nursing, and teaching. But as the number of “stews” grew, so did their suspicion that the job was not as picture-perfect as the ads would have them believe. “Sky girls” had to adhere to strict weight limits at all times; gain a few extra pounds and they’d be suspended from work. They couldn’t marry or have children; their makeup, hair, and teeth had to be just so. Girdles were mandatory while stewardesses were on the clock. And, most important, stewardesses had to resign at 32. Eventually the stewardesses began to push back and it’s thanks to their trailblazing efforts in part that working women have gotten closer to workplace equality today. Nell McShane Wulfhart crafts a rousing narrative of female empowerment, the paradigm-shifting ’60s and ’70s, the labor movement, and the cadre of gutsy women who fought for their rights—and won.
Download or read book Wing Tip Shoes written by Mary Elizabeth Spreitzer and published by . This book was released on 2008-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a small mid-western town in the 1960's a fresh young girl had a fleeting passion to see the world. Looking past the Iowa corn fields she yearned to see grand oceans, legendary statues and exotic palaces. In 1964 the dreamer found the perfect cup to house her desires. Despite fear, competition and doubt, she was accepted into a life of excitement, culture, and friends as a first class flight attendant for TWA. Wing Tip Shoes - Memoirs of a Flight Attendant is the autobiographical story of the charming, timeless encounters of Mary Elizabeth Spreitzer. The original stories and unique interactions are brought to life by the author's down to earth style and personal photographs. If you need to get away without ever leaving your house Wing Tip Shoes is just the ticket.
Download or read book Cabin Fever written by Mandy Smith (Flight attendant) and published by Plume. This book was released on 2015-06-30 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A twelve-year veteran flight attendant shares the good, bad and naughty of the job.
