Revelation flight attendants on flights

As a passenger, you blindly trust the crew, because you want to be sure that it is safely carries an altitude of 10 kilometers. So it is quite surprising that so much information about the world of passenger aviation is still shrouded in mystery.

Talk about how to go flying, and those who guarantee security, we have asked Annette Long, a stewardess with 13 years of experience. Just below - questions, answers to which you might be interested to hear.

Do flight attendants onboard meals Eat?

Oh yeah! All time. Just imagine our faces vultures if suddenly you can eat meals for the first class, th-th-th. Usually, we got what was left intact after all the passengers fed.

What is the direction of the most attractive for flight attendants?

It is a moot point, because to each his own. When I shared in facebook post that fly to Beijing, one of my colleagues wrote: "Cool, you're flying, and I do not." She likes to work on domestic flights, and many others too. Conversely, there are people who are more like international flights. I like to fly to Beijing and Tokyo from Washington, and back. In addition, in Beijing we are given 52 hours to rest, so I can go shopping and how to relax.

As you affect many hours of travel?

By the time you arrive home, you are very exhausted. Are you really so tired that there is no strength to even sit in social networks. It happens that you do not want after a long flight or answer calls or open the door. You want to cancel all plans and just lie in bed.

Can you sleep on long flights?

Yes we can. For example, on a flight to Beijing, lasted 14 hours, we have a 4-hour break. We're serving drinks, then food, then dessert and after we can relax a bit. Half of the team sent to the bays for recreation, while the other half working. These compartments are very small and close, it is impossible to even sit down. To be honest, they look like a coffin. But, in principle, there can lie down, listen to music and relax a bit.

Can I normally sleep there?

One of our brand new recently fallen asleep so that she heard the three alarm clock, so anything is possible. And I, for example, can only sleep for a couple of hours, and then I feel so-so.

What happens when you are in the compartments for the rest, you get into a zone of turbulence?

We there are special safety belts.

And what do you do when someone gets really bad, or someone dies during the flight?

We contact the medical device company, and doctors tell us what to do. They ask questions, we answer them, and together decide what to do. Just fire on board there is an automatic external defibrillator.

And those who died on board, you are leaving in their seats?

Yes. Thank God, I've never been in this situation and did not even know a single person on whose flight someone would die. But I think we have covered the body with something that it did not attract much attention. It's all very sad.

And if you have any secret signals, which are used to communicate with other crew members?

There are several situations in which we are supposed to use not the signals, and certain words, the meaning of which only members of the crew understand and I can not share them with you.

What happens when a passenger refused to fasten your seat belt when the light comes on, "Buckle up"?

When the "Buckle" is lit but not blinking, some passengers do not care: they want to go to the toilet - no, they do not want to appear rude and impolite - just want to go to the toilet. Okay. Therefore I will not detain anyone physically. But I just have to inform the passenger as follows: if the captain believes that the indicator should be lit, then unfasten the belt and even more so to get up from their seats can be dangerous.

What you need to do to passengers that they were driven out of the aircraft or to the board made an emergency landing?

If preflight inspection of this somehow did not notice you were drunk on board, and we have seen it before the flight - you have to leave the aircraft. We do not need that at an altitude of 10 kilometers above the ground, you suddenly got up from his seat and began to brawl. However, to get you kicked out of the aircraft before take-off, you just start to behave aggressively - you will immediately go home, accompanied by representatives of the security services. If you are injured, in principle, the aircraft can be redirected, but the decision is made, I do not.

What is the strangest thing, what you faced while working?

My flights were mostly pretty easy, nothing special. Although there were a couple of incidents. Once I saw a passenger fell and broke his face. He did not even have time to grab hold of something with his hands. Although it is not very strange. I also talked about a case where the shelves for hand luggage dripping blood. It turned out that someone had tried to take the bag head of the goat. It was, of course, before the introduction of modern norms of pre-flight inspection.

And what for you the worst thing in the behavior of the passengers?

When someone decides to cut her toenails. It's so awful! And it is not so rare, believe me. Another often passengers remove their shoes and fill up unbearably smelly feet somewhere higher. Many come to the rear of the aircraft platform and begin to warm up there, do physical exercises. And we have to watch this. Some are beginning to demand free alcoholic drinks almost immediately after take-off, and someone without any constraint watching porn.