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You know that it's the job for you. You've done all the reading, and you understand that working as a flight attendant isn't all glamour and excitement. You know there's hard work and commitment involved, and that the money - well, no one becomes a cabin crew to get rich, after all. It doesn't matter - you've got your mind made up, and you're about to embark on a flight attendant job search. Here

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If you wanted to be a flight attendant in the old days, it was a pretty straightforward process. You simply went to the airline's ticket counter, asked for an application and took it home. After you filled it out, you sent it in to the home office and waited for them to call you for an interview.  Times have changed, and so has the recruitment process for jobs as a flight attendant. These days,

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Many people have e-mailed me and asked me a  bunch of questions. I will do my best to answer most of them, but please be advised that my blog is in continuous development and that I have a job ;)) I need to fly from time to time to pay my bills, food, extravagances and for the internet connexion that keeps me closer to you all. One of the most frequent (also most common) of them is how to

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In July 2009 the Toronto Star carried a report about the views Transport Canada has about Emirates Airline and the Emirates response which states that the department is making "slanderous" allegations. This story is being discussed in an aviation forum on Airliners.net. The Financial Post reported Emirates CEO Tim Clark as saying the the Canadian government's approach was "ludicrous" and "

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Hi all,I just have to confess something, otherwise I might do something bad to anyone that comes my way. Not so long ago I went on trip to JNB (Johannesburg - for the unfamiliar ones). Heavy load, difficult pax, long block time, quite risky destination (much like LOS - not Los Angeles, but Lagos, Nigeria). I held myself together thinking constantly of a nice dry glass of south african wine, one

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Hi everyone! Quick question! How do you manage and keep your temper down when you are surrounded in the Business Class cabin by a very loud, crazy, freaky bunch of kids. Don't misunderstand me, I love kids and I am anxious for the moment when I'll have my own elite team, but for the moment I please my fatherly feelings playing around with my friend's pupils. So, tonight I had a short 2h30min

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Another Flight Attendant Writing About Flying: There's a new laviator in town

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Like a bad case of indigestion, hopefully this fad has passed, but in March Gadling’s Heather Poole uncovered what she called the “hottest trend on the airplane since the mile high club“: airplane passengers taking self-portraits in the lavatories.On a subsequent post Heather Poole referred to these photographers as members of the “laviators club” and posted a second slideshow of this emerging

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Laviators 39 – 47! Here he is, my favorite laviator, the kid!  Oh yes, there was a lot of, “No, no, no, don’t touch that!  Smile!  Look at the mirror, not the camera!  The mirror! I said don’t touch that!” going on, which was followed by, ”why?  why?  why?” which is kind of funny, because…well…I get that a lot when it comes to the laviators – Why?  And I still don’t have an answer.     Well

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Cash-strapped Air India is likely to table a detailed financial turnaround plan at a meeting of the high-level Committee of Secretaries on Saturday, showing proposals to cut costs and enhance revenue generation over the next five years.The plan, vetted by the Finance and Civil Aviation Ministries, is likely to include proposals relating to the nature of financial assistance it wants from the

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Qatar Airways's new on-demand charter division plans to build rapidly on its initial fleet of threeBombardier Challenger business jets as it looks to tap into the region's growing demand for executive travel.The subsidiary, dubbed Qatar Executive, was unveiled at the Paris air show. It will function as a profit centre within the airline group with its own management structure.Headed by

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How do you evacuate 155 people from an Airbus 320 sinking in just off the Manhattan shoreline? The crew of U.S. Airways Flight 1549 described how they were able to get every passenger back on dry land. Unless they happen at a major airport, most commercial airline accidents generally occur without any "real time" video and/or photographic record of the event. However, the circumstance of

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Japan Airlines has retired its fleet of the Boeing 747 Classic Jumbo Jets with the last scheduled international flight of the type: JO 073 flying from Honolulu, Hawaii to Tokyo Narita airport in Japan, landing on July 31st. (The last domestic flight by a Boeing 747-300 was scheduled to land just 5 minutes earlier, departing from Sapporo Chitose.)The last JAL operated Classic Jumbo Jet was a

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Sometimes situations on board do not go as expected. A good day, a good flight may turn bad, everything may suddenly go wrong. Needless to say, it’s difficult to stay calm in such situations. We all tend to become confused, panic or even heated by anger (mostly!!!). That won’t help you much to get out of the situation though. Handling a bad situation in such condition  will just make it worse;

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The time for breaking the fast when one is airborne should be on the basis of the actual time of sunset and not in accordance with the time at the landing destination, Qatar’s prominent Islamic scholar Dr Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi has said in a fatwa he issued yesterday. As reported in the local Arabic press, the fatwa was issued in the context of the announcement made by the captain of the Qatar

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MORE THAN 300 people applied for about 50 jobs based in Abu Dhabi at an open day held by Etihad Airways in Dublin yesterday. About 200 applicants attended in person while at least 100 sent in CVs, with more expected to apply.Many of those at the open day in the Burlington Hotel were former employees with SR Technics, which announced over 1,100 job cuts earlier this year.One man told The Irish

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Interviews are by appointment only. Apply on-line by clicking on the destination link below. Alternatively, forward your application via mail to; Emirates Airline, Emirates Cabin Crew Recruitment, P.O. BOX 34211, Dubai, U.A.E. The Emirates Cabin Crew Recruitment Team currently has no Global Assessment days scheduled at any international destination. However, please continue to check the website

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Singapore Open Day:29th August 200909:00AM Venue:Hilton Singapore Taipei, Taiwan (CV Submission & Female Only) Open Day:29th August 200909:00AM -14:00PM Venue:Sunworld Dynasty Hotel Belgrade, Serbia Open Day:05th September 200909:00AM Venue:Continental Hotel Beograd Riga, Latvia Open Day:06th September 200909:00AM Venue:Radisson SAS Dauvaga Hotel Brisbane, Australia

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As all our Cabin Crew will testify, it is not just a job, but a way of life. Think you could manage a completely different challenge to the normality of a nine to five routine? Our flights depart around the clock, you could find yourself flying off to Muscat at 7 o'clock in the morning, or to Kathmandu at 11 o'clock at night. We have got an excellent reputation to maintain, so we will ask you for

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What is it?Swine flu is a viral infection that is typically only passed between pigs. A newly-identified A strain (H1N1) of this virus is reported to pass from person to person. The first cases were reported in Mexico, and, at the time of this writing (April 27), cases have now been confirmed in the US, Canada, and Mexico with potential cases reported in Hong Kong, New Zealand, and Spain. It is

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  The British Based  Thomson Airways has precocious children reciting the briefing and expertly demonstrating the aircraft's safety equipment. Will this be the next airline passenger safety briefing video to go viral? (Hey, whatever works to capture passengers' attention is good!)

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To add to its cheap fares, no-extra-fees policy, and wise-cracking flight attendants, Southwest Airlines is giving us one more reason to love the low-cost carrier. Southwest says that, by the first quarter of 2010, wi-fi internet will be available on all flights.Southwest and Row 44 have been testing the service on four planes since February of 2009. In a press release, Southwest Airlines'

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Surfing around I realized that many people are interested in joining an airline, however, they didn't manage to find out any Insight reviews from actual cabin crew, or, if found these are vague and imprecise, people being to bored or lazy (why not) to actually give them explicit details. On this post I'll try to answer some of those questions and maybe to give those answers a positive, personal

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So you look on your roster and you see about 100 sby's. SBY=stand by. Standing by to be called in to operate a flight. For many reasons you could be called, there are hundreds in fact. It's not so bad, you could end up not being called at all and have the day off to do whatever you want. Standbys are awkward. In the summer, they are almost definitely going to change before the day even arrives.

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Welcome to my blog! In days and weeks and months, possibly years to come, I'll keep you guys up to date with my experiences, hopefully I'll manage to keep you interested, exchange opinions and build a network. After all, why are we around here?! Also, if there are any new wannabes around the place, why not share with them impressions over the industry, offer them tips and advices, and enhance

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