These Gold Wings

The following is a list of terms I may have used in previous posts, although I haven’t used them all. I figured it’d be a fun explain some airline terms that you may not already know! Keep in mind that not all of these are official.   pax – passenger layover – A period of [...]

Have you ever been silently thinking to yourself and then asked someone a question about the subject you were thinking of, forgetting that they don’t know the context of the question? (Did that even make sense?) I know I’ve done it before, and recently a passenger asked me such a question. On one of my [...]

Dilbert comics are my favourite.

I was always a huge fan of Canadian Airlines. When I see old Canadian commercials, memorabilia, or what have you I start to miss them a little bit. It reminds me of the days when my parents both worked at that airline. When I’d fly standby to visit my friend in Kelowna, and on the [...]

For the first time, I have an “Airport Reserve” shift coming up. This is something new to my base, although some of the other bases at my airline have always had airport reserve. As with most airlines, Airport Reserve is when the flight attendant is scheduled to show up at the airport in full uniform [...]

My airline serves instant coffee. There! I said it. Disgusted? Don’t be. The vast majority of our passengers never notice. Heck, sometimes people say to me “mmm! Finally some good coffee.” These pax are often coming from places that are world renowned for having great coffee! But for the first time I had a passenger [...]