You have to check it. I think the tray tables are wiped every night. But remember, they're using a rag to start row one, and when they end up in row 35, that rag has wiped a lot of tables. This happens all the time. We've just walked through three times picking up trash, and I'm barely back to the galley, and I hear 'ding dong.
But if the seat-belt sign is off, you should get up and walk back to the galley anyway for circulation purposes. Let us know. We'll be right there. And sometimes when people are stuck in the window seat, and the two people next to them are sleeping, and all they want is a glass of water, it's not problem.
It's nice that somebody recognizes us with that, but I can't upgrade you. We have the two classes in economy — there are the seats that have more legroom and the seats that have less legroom — and people a lot of times will try to move up forward of the exit row. And we have to charge for that.
Otherwise I have to move you. It's what I'm required to do. If there's fire, deep water, or rocks outside that exit, that would make it unsafe for us to go through there, and the flight attendant would have to make that determination fairly quickly. I haven't spent many Christmases at home with my family because that's the month I'm on reserve. I have to go wherever the company is going to send me. My family is kind of used to it. They don't even expect me.
So for Thanksgiving this year I drove to Virginia Beach and I got there in time for dinner in the afternoon. A few hours later I was driving back to Washington, DC. But we're just a family for the three or four days we're working together and that's it. We're done. It's really not going to the nightclub. It's going out to dinner, maybe getting a cocktail, and then to bed. For you. World globe An icon of the world globe, indicating different international options.
Get the Insider App. Click here to learn more. Keep your money in your wallet. The fact is that most airlines don't allow flight attendants to accept tips. But I never take it. I thank them and hand it back. But if someone shoves it in my apron or won't take no for an answer, well, then it's just sort of rude not to accept it.
Most flight attendants will politely rebuff a tip and as a rule, tipping seems to happen a lot on flights to and from Las Vegas, says Keagle, and usually in coach. But aside from a few extra bills, Walsh points out that there's a new way to reward flight attendants for exceptional service and that's via Twitter. Ask a veteran flight attendant and job flexibility is usually the leading reason they love their job, especially if they have families.
Everyone loves the free travel, but times have changed and it's not as "free" as one might think. Flights are often very full and there's rarely an open seat. Instead, you can choose to live elsewhere and commute to work via flight. This is more common among senior flight attendants since they have more control over which flights they take and their schedule.
As you can see, being a flight attendant really does create a lifestyle different from most jobs. Where else can you find yourself with the opportunity to commute to work in a jet, sleep in a small bunk bed on an airplane while flying at 35, feet, and crash in a hotel with a friend in a city overseas… all in the same week? We have all the info you need to go from never having worked in the aviation industry all the way to becoming a flight attendant. Our website is made possible by displaying online advertisements to our visitors.
Please consider supporting us by disabling your ad blocker. Flight Attendants. Do Flight Attendants Sleep on Long Flights Yes, flight attendants have their own designated sleeping areas on long haul flights that is there just for them.
Airplanes have small crew rest areas equipped with bunk beds for flight attendants. Home Flight attendants that have some seniority can often arrange their schedules enough where they can usually sleep at home between taking on shifts.
Hotels If you find yourself working a long haul flight to another continent, for example the airline you work for will cover the cost of a hotel. Weeks of training are required before getting your wings. Kat, a flight attendant based in New York City, recalls training for five weeks after being hired as a flight attendant. While training is typically unpaid, most airlines offer complimentary lodging with some meals or a stipend provided. Rolling the beverage cart up and down the aisle is the easy part of the job.
Most of what flight attendants learn in training is related to safety, not service. You have to memorize seating charts, know where all the emergency equipment is stored, learn how to operate all the doors, and pass both written tests about the technicalities and physical drills inside models of the airplanes. Sure, flight attendants can also make a mean Bloody Mary from canned tomato juice, but if shit were to hit the fan, the most important thing is knowing how to get everyone out of the plane safely.
Seniority is everything. Your rank as a flight attendant determines what your working schedule will be like. Even though you could take off a ton of time, most flight attendants pick up extra trips to make enough money to get by. The only exception to the schedule flexibility is, of course, the holidays. Get used to sleeping in strange places.
For longer international flights, like Los Angeles to London, you get short sleeping breaks during the flight. The large aircrafts have an area above the passenger cabin, which is about 4 feet tall and 40 feet long, with eight bunks on each side. Each flight attendant gets a sleeping shift during the flight, about two or three hours, where they lie in one of those little cots and sleep.
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