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

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

So great news. I’ll be back to writing again on here soon. It’s been a crazy last few weeks and I’ve been bursting at the seams with all these great ideas for future blog posts. I guess I’ve just missed blogging too much to stay away for too long. Plus I figure that if I… Read More Airline Bootcamp

So much has happened in this past week I don’t even know where to begin so I guess I’ll just cut to the chase: Last week my favorite airline called to tell me that after two phone interviews, an in-person interview, a drug test and a 10-year criminal background check…they’d finally decided to hire me.… Read More Flying High