I love watching the reality show Airline. It’s not on TV anymore (it went off the air in 2004), but you can watch entire episodes of it on Video Google. The A&E show documents the behind-the-scenes drama of working for an airline, specifically Southwest Airlines. I’ve posted a few full-length episodes below, which I hope… Read More What It’s Like to Work as an Airline Customer Service Agent
“Excuse me, miss,” a passenger said as she handed me her boarding card. “But there’s a man over there and…I think, I think that something’s wrong with him.” I was in the middle of boarding a flight, and as I scanned her boarding card and handed it back to her, I glanced in the direction… Read More Why I Love Working for an Airline, Part Two
I love working for an airline. So much so, in fact, that I can’t seem to find a way to write about it. I only started a two months ago and I’m still in that honeymoon phase where everything is still so new, exciting, overwhelming and completely indescribable. Sort of like the first few weeks… Read More My Job Might Be Leaving Me Soon
I don’t buy souvenir’s when I travel because frankly, I don’t see the point. Do I really need some tacky fridge magnet shaped like a sombrero to remind me that I went to Mexico? Um, no. Thank you. And ditto with hula girl dashboard dolls from Hawaii, Nevada license plate hand bags from Las Vegas… Read More Vacation Souvenirs: Why Do We Buy Them?
I like the freedom of solo travel. You can do whatever you want, whenever you want and without the headache of having to consult your travel companion about it first. There are no debates, no compromises and best of all, no worries that your partner will find you lame and uncultured for ditching that 5th… Read More Why Solo Travel Sucks
So I didn’t go to Aruba. Or Bermuda. And I didn’t go to Antigua to visit my college roommate. Or to any of the other places (besides NY) that I’d originally planned to visit when I first decided to take an imprumptu mini-vaca somewhere tropical. No, I went to Cancun, Me-he-Ko! Which in America is… Read More On Why I Went to Mexico
I appologize for leaving ya hanging there with that last post. I meant to finish it, I did. But then I got sidetracked with planning a trip to the Caribbean and had to run to work. And well, you’ll have to wait a teeny tiny bit longer for the ending. I’m sorry! I know that… Read More I’m Going on a Travel-Spree!
Yesterday I almost got my fingers chopped off by an airplane (ahem, I mean aircraft) door handle. I was attempting to shut the airplane (I mean aircraft) door so that the airplane (okay, I give up) could make an on-time departure. Unfortunately for me, the plane, and all those on board, I’d never received jet… Read More Why I Love Working for an Airline (Part One)
I can’t write. And when I say that I can’t write, I mean that I can’t write. Anything. No thing. Not a blog post, not my grad school application essay. Not even something as minor league as an email. It’s like my muse has up and abandoned me. He’s found someone new. He’s probably off… Read More Have you seen my Muse?
Photo by Tiffany Von I’m afraid of flying. I know that may seem like a strange confession to make considering that I fly often enough to practically count it as a hobby and I work for, you know, an AIRLINE…but well, I didn’t say that it made any sense. It doesn’t matter how many “You’re… Read More Crash Course