Come me fly with me! ✈️ A whole new career opportunity?

grandaughter is cabin crew for Ryan Air she loves it, has moved to Stanstead, unfortunately she has to pay 600 for a room in large house!!!

Witzend, my Aunty worked for BCal and when she died her funeral was attended by many BCal and BA staff. She had some great stories and had a fling with a pilot and my lovely cousin was the result! She took on the BA Mgt in salary negotiations and was quite a character. A huge fan of Avon cosmetics she taught me about makeup when I was sixteen and I could always confide in her. I still miss her!

I did it for a couple of years, back in the Dark Ages, with BCal - we wore little kilt-type skirts, with the big safety-pin thing in, and so many would-be witty blokes would say, ‘If I take that off, will your skirt fall down?’

I still remember one bloke I actually knew slightly, off on his hols somewhere, who saw me coming down the aisle with a teapot and said at the top of his voice, ‘Here she comes - the old Tetley Tea Bag!’ 😩

We did some long haul too, and another memory is of the very good looking First Officer (married) who slipped a note under my hotel room door, saying, ‘The door is open - come and kiss me goodnight.’

A friend of mine did just that, more than once - same bloke, randy bugger. He always had a fund of hilarious jokes - would keep us all in fits, which they do say is always a good first step towards getting your end away!

My friend was cabin crew for Laker years ago (remember them?). An anecdote; one of their male cabin crew, working first class was handed a smelly, crying baby and told (not asked) to change him. He disappeared into steerage area and came back with another baby and asked 'will this one do, madam? Madam was no amused, although everyone else was.

Spinnaker

Time for my air stewardess anecdote.
(For those who have heard it before, you may turn over to another channel now.)
On a break in the Peak District we met a lovely couple possibly in their 50’s/60’s like us and the wife’s very elegant sister who was visiting from Montana although English by birth . She was a retired BOAC stewardess (long haul )and they were the crême de la crême as I remember.
She told us how fascinating her early career had been but as a typically middle class English girl - and they were all pretty posh- she found some of it an eye opener.
Including the language differences between the US and U.K.
She was once asked by a male American passenger on a transatlantic flight to direct him to the “rest room”. Not understanding, she thought perhaps he wanted a nap and replied that they didn’t have one on the plane, but she could bring him a pillow if he wanted!

On holiday I met a fairly elderly but glamorous lady and her friend. They were both retired teachers but the glamorous one, for a laugh, had applied to be an air stewardess. She was amazed to be accepted and did it for fifteen years. She said she loved it and all the air crews looked on her as a granny figure. She loved the overnight hotel stays and parties. She was quite a gal! American.

I’d be more suited for Ground Crew, except that I don’t like loud noises and the cold.

Callistemon21

Someone we knew was cabin crew. She was tall and beautiful and only worked in First Class.

I’d probably be confined to the hold!!

I know I'd get all bad tempered, pushing that trolley and smiling, in cramped circumstances and shoes with heels.

A friend of mine has a daughter who was a cabin crew on Etihad. Her husband was a "butler" on the flights where the the Abu Dhabi royal family travelled. I would never have been able to do a job like that, kowtowing to over entitled people. Some of my customers in my antiques business are occasionally rude and disrespectful. I drop them like a stone and block them from my shops.

Its never struck me as a great job.
It's very crowded trying to get that trolley down the middle aisle.

Remember Mrs Overall played by Julie Walters in the Victoria Wood sketches - that would be me

Me too. I wanted to be an Air Hostess when I was little. Unfortunately, life overtook me. However, I now have over 30 years in the Hospitality industry and the last 13 years in the Care industry.

Am I qualified? First Aid and waiting skills up to date.

My friend was mid 40s when she gave up being BA cabin crew so that she could be there for her children!

Two of our neighbour’s daughters were hostesses for a while. They both gave it up after a few years. One became a teacher, the other a banker. That job would be my worst nightmare, can’t stand flying.

My parents had a friend who was chief purser years ago with BOAC. He was quite a "glamorous" man and very witty. He sometimes "popped in" on his way to New York or Dubai or wherever and brought us Elizabeth Arden soaps, hand creams and other treats "left over" from 1st class.
I stayed in his London flat a couple of times and it was swish and fabulously decorated.
I adored him.

I have never wanted to be a trolley dolly thank you very much and especially not now in my 6th decade!

Someone we knew was cabin crew. She was tall and beautiful and only worked in First Class.

Callistemon21 perhaps it will work this time...

What good news then! Thanks for the info*Calistemon*.
I'll apply immediately .. or perhaps next week will do...

Calendargirl

In my ‘Bunty’ comic when I was young, one of the stories was ‘Lyn Raymond, Air Stewardess’.

How glamorous it looked! The uniform, the lipstick, the exotic Mediterranean stop offs ( at 6 years old, I had no idea where the Med was, but it didn’t look like Skegness or Blackpool!)

Not so glam nowadays, that was the 50’s when flying was glam.

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There was little career book called Air Hostess Anne…. I thought it was so glam but I’d have been hopeless when young (too untidy)

henetha

Could I be allowed a nap now and then? 😁

Yes, it's allowed on long-haul 🙂

😂😂😂

My bum would knock the drinks over.

Can we train as pilots please?

henetha and kittylester