Flight Attendants
20 Years at 30,000 Feet: A Flight Attendant Answers Readers’ Questions
As a flight attendant who has been on the job for 20 years, it’s easy to take my travel insights for granted — the little tips and tricks that make the journey smoother. But after watching so many passengers miss important events this summer because of airline cancellations and delays, I knew I had to […]
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How a Flight Attendant Became a Funeral Planner in the Covid Era
HONG KONG — Before she became a funeral planner, Connie Wong was a flight attendant for a Hong Kong airline. The sudden end of a career she had cherished for six years brought its own kind of grief, she said. It was one of many such losses experienced by residents of the Chinese territory. Hong […]
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Ask a Flight Attendant About Flying Now
Flying can be a high-stress activity now. What if my flight gets canceled? What if the airline loses my luggage? On top of airline dramas, the risk of Covid-19 while traveling still looms uneasily. Recently, a flight attendant named Kristie Koerbel wrote a list of nine tips for surviving travel right now (one of her […]
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A Flight Attendant’s Tips on Surviving Travel Now
Twenty years ago, with my life at a serious crossroads, I applied to every single airline, and a few months later I was officially a flight attendant. I loved my new job, and it came with a completely new and exciting life. But I didn’t sign up for what travel is like this summer. The […]
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Man Who Assaulted Flight Attendants Gets 60 Days in Jail
A 23-year-old Ohio man who the authorities say groped two flight attendants and punched a third before being duct-taped to his seat amid jeers from his fellow passengers on a flight last summer was sentenced on Tuesday to 60 days in jail. Parts of the episode, which occurred during a Frontier Airlines flight from Philadelphia […]
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Passenger Exposed Buttocks and Threw a Can During Flight, Prosecutors Say
A passenger who refused to wear a mask on a flight from Dublin to New York pulled down his pants and exposed his buttocks, threw a can at a passenger and put his cap on the captain’s head and told him, “Don’t touch me,” prosecutors said in a case unsealed on Friday. After the Delta […]
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Delta Air Lines and a Union Spar Over Isolation Periods for Sick Workers
Delta Air Lines and a large flight attendants union are fighting about whether the company’s new isolation policy for employees who test positive for the coronavirus puts workers and travelers at risk. The airline’s chief legal officer sent a letter on Friday to the Association of Flight Attendants-C.W.A. saying the union had posted “false and […]
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Air Travel Is No Holiday as Covid-19 and Winter Storms Cancel Flights
Airlines may have thought their pandemic troubles were behind them in the fall as a coronavirus wave subsided and travelers increasingly took to the skies. But a new virus surge and winter storms have left the carriers and their passengers in a holiday mess. Heading into the New Year’s weekend, when return flights will produce […]
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Delta Air Lines updates its Covid-19 policies after the C.D.C.’s new guidance.
Delta Air Lines has updated its policies for workers who get sick with the coronavirus, soon after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shortened its recommended isolation period for Americans infected with Covid-19. Delta was one of the first companies to adapt to the updated guidance, which it had publicly called on the C.D.C. […]
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