Is This You When You Fly? – Mama 'N Chief

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Is This You When You Fly? – Mama 'N Chief

Is This You When You Fly?, Mama 'N Chief

Welcome Aboard! What Flight Attendants Want you to Know About Flying During a Pandemic

Typically air travel in the summertime undoubtedly means that flights are full of people ready for vacation and family visits. Flight attendants brace themselves for first time flyers, irrational passenger requests, excessive baggage and scores of, “is the flight full?” inquiries. If you remember, “is the flight full?” ranked #1 on my list of, 10 Things Passengers Say and Do, That are Just Doggone Annoying to Flight Attendants. Considering we are living in crazy times right now, air travel has slowed but is starting to ramp up with fuller flights. Though flight attendants usually dealt with their fair share of ridiculousness pre-Covid, it’s no surprise, that with all the changes that have been made regarding mask wearing and social distancing on airplanes, passengers are presenting us with more far fetched shenanigans than usual. I decided that I didn’t want to ride this ride during unprecedented times, so I went ahead and took the voluntary leave that my company offered. However, my flight attendant friends continue to entertain me with stories of passenger ludicrousness that boggles the mind. If

Is This You When You Fly?

5 Reasons Flight Attendants Aren’t Willing to Give you a Buddy Pass

Summertime is rapidly approaching and while we're all gearing up for warmer weather, backyard barbeques, relaxing by the poolside and treks to the beach, flight attendants are preparing for the dreaded buddy pass vacationers. You probably already know what a buddy pass is but if you don't, it's free or reduced rate travel that flight attendants and other airline personnel can use for themselves, their families and friends. When traveling on a buddy pass you are never guaranteed a seat because the stipulation for your inexpensive fare, is that you are flying standby. You also don’t receive any compensation for flights that you miss and you’re likely the low man on the totem pole on the standby list, which can cause you to spend hours in the airport, watching planes come and go. A buddy pass vacationer, by definition, is someone who attempts to plan (in advance) a vacation with a buddy pass ticket. One who will pay for an entire cruise but will scrimp on airfare and attempt to book air travel using a buddy

Is This You When You Fly?

5 Tips to Make Air Travel With Children Under 2 a Breeze

The first time I traveled on an airplane with my son, he was 6 months old. Because I was a flight attendant at that time and had been for many years, I felt like I knew what to do to make our trip a success. #NOT #FAIL #WRONG. For the most part, checking in and going through security was pretty simple. The issues began during boarding. I had a suitcase, diaper bag, car seat and baby. I'd purchased this wonderful little bungee chord contraption thingee to attach my car seat to my roller bag, making it a makeshift stroller. Everything was contained in one streamlined operation. Car seat attached to bag, baby in car seat, diaper bag attached to the handle of roller bag, so we were well put together honey! Now because I was a flight attendant, I had pretty much eyeballed my faux stroller rig and I knew that it could make it down the aisle of the aircraft because the car seat really didn't protrude past the roller bag, the same bag that

Is This You When You Fly?

10 Things Passengers say and do That are Just Doggone Annoying to Flight Attendants

Being a flight attendant has its share of ups and downs. While deemed to be a glamorous and fascinating career and most times it is, it's often filled with long days, full flights and a myriad of personalities from the thousands of passengers we encounter each day. If you became a flight attendant and only did the job for one week, I guarantee that you will have heard or encountered the following statements, questions and scenarios, at least 1000 times. I've polled two separate flight attendant Facebook groups and here are the top 10 things that passengers say and do, that makes our sanity fly away. 1. Is the flight full? Sorry guys, there is no particular order to this list but this one ranks #1. It makes our skin crawl. I really can't explain why but it does. Normally because we say good morning and we're not met with a mutual greeting but instead, "are we full?" Some of us sassy stews like to reply, "yep, we are stuffed thanks to