Remember when flying wasn’t a completely unpleasant experience? We don’t, either! But, as the rest of the world shells out $15 per checked bag and dines on meals of potato chips hastily purchased in the terminal, Dubai’s government-owned Emirates airline is taking things in a different, distinctly less miserable, direction.
The company has been proudly [...]

I never realized how much people actually disliked traveling until I started writing for Gadling. Well the next time you have to travel, don’t despair. It’s not all bad. Not if you’re single that is. In fact, if you are single, it can be a lot of fun. Real fun! How do I know? Because [...]

After checking that passengers’ seat belts were fastened and the cabin was prepared for takeoff, Alex Rodriguez, a 26-year-old Spaniard and Emirates airline flight attendant, reached into her pocket for a tube of bright red lipstick.
“I retouch it every 15 minutes,” she said. “Otherwise, my supervisor will remind me.”
Emirates’ Glamorous Crew
Emirates flight attendants smile at [...]

CABIN CREW at Aer Lingus have voted to accept the draft agreement reached between their union and the airline at the Labour Relations Commission.
The Impact union released results of the ballot last night indicating 59 per cent had voted in favour, with 41 per cent having voted against.
The result comes days after the State’s largest [...]

It had always been my dream as a little girl to be an airline attendant. After one year of college, I was accepted by Continental Airlines to attend their flight school in Los Angeles. It was a six-week course about airplanes, emergency procedures, first aid, CPR, etiquette, makeup, hair and most of all not being [...]

BRITISH Airways have been accused of bullying in their bid to axe Scots cabin crew operations.
The company want to close their base at Glasgow airport with the loss of 138 jobs and operate from Heathrow instead.
Staff have staged a high-profile fightback, including setting up a website, www.savebascotland.co.uk.
Yesterday, they held a two-hour meeting in a hotel [...]

Sometimes, love really is in the air.
On Mother’s Day 1976, Pan American World Airways flight attendant Toni Gil de Lamadrid was working as purser on a flight from Washington to London.
She couldn’t help but notice the tall, good-looking young man sitting near the galley in coach class. When food service time came — [...]

Incidents of violence by air passengers towards cabin crew have almost doubled, it was revealed today.
And the total number of “significant” incidents of disruptive behaviour by passengers increased from 2,161 in 2006/07 to 2,671 in 2007/08, according to the Civil Aviation Authority figures published by the Department for Transport.
But incidents classed as “serious” [...]

American Airlines flight attendant Suzanne Moore has a strategy for dealing with passengers who won’t turn off their cell phones.
She tells them that their flight has been selected for a test, and “in five seconds we will flip a new switch, which will cause any electronic devices that are on to self-destruct.” Moore says [...]

Typical working day
I wake up by 4am every working day in time to prepare my children for school and for my office pick up by 5am. Being a senior, I should always be there before the others just to make sure everything is in place. Together with the others, I check all the emergency equipment [...]

Malaysia Airlines (MAS) has had to “fight hard to retain” its cabin crew, who are wanted by many other airlines, said the national carrier’s chairman Tan Sri Munir Majid (pic).
“Our cabin crew have been recognised internationally as the best in the world for many years until recently when we were pushed into second place. [...]

Just weeks after Delta Air Lines consummated its marriage with Northwest Airlines, some rank-and-file flight attendants are generating waves in what executives had hoped would be a smooth unification of two large labor forces.
The Association of Flight Attendants union representing some 7,000 Northwest employees told Delta executives they won’t be attending a mid-December meeting [...]

IFS Alfred need not have died in the SQ 006 crash in TPE. He was on the main deck of the aircraft but after the impact took place he heard the panic in the upper deck,ran upstairs and got himself into trouble.
He was trying desperately to help save the passengers and lost his life [...]

Mike, as he was affectionately known by his senior colleagues was a kind man who would always lend a ear to his colleagues and crew when they needed someone to listen to.
He will always be remembered for his husky and powerful voice. Passengers would stop whatever they were doing and listened to Mike whenever [...]

The story according to boh tong in his blog was like this:
‘James’ a PPS passenger from Taipei was giving the staff and crew a hard time whenever he travelled with SQ. He antagonised someone from SQ management and cabin crew division looked into his mistress work record and found her to be involved in a [...]

Eddie J as he was affectionately called, was the son of the late principal of Raffles Instituion and Bartely Secondary school in the early and mid 1960s.
Eddie joined the airlines way back in the late 1960s after graduating from Singapore University.
From the positions of manager to general manager, Eddie later became the SVP of SIA [...]

It was not long after the passing of Mr. Yap that I met ‘D’ his grown up daughter in the first class section on a flight from London to Singapore.
I was dismayed to hear the stories she related to me regarding some of our crew.
At the bedside of her very sick father, a few crew [...]

The other day I took a flight on US Airways from Los Angeles to Atlanta. I have made this flight with my dog, Max, numerous times & normally take Delta. However due to high fares right now, I chose to fly US Air as it was much less expensive.
When I was [...]

FORMER air stewardess Susan Andrews, who had to give up her career after she was injured when a Boeing 777 she was working on hit turbulence, failed in a renewed bid for damages last week.
In November 2007 a High Court judge dismissed the £150,000 claim against British Airways by Miss Andrews, from Treverbyn, and held [...]

Violent attacks on cabin crew by passengers almost doubled in 2007/08, it was revealed today.
And while violent incidents were up, those classed as serious fell from 58 to just 31 – the lowest figure for four years.
According to the Civil Aviation Authority figures published by the Department for Transport the total number of significant incidents [...]