OK! I did it again!! It’s Thursday, although I’m writing on Wednesday night. I guess that’s were the confusion comes in. I could blame it on age…..or Mommy brain…..anyway, here are the answers to your questions!

From Angel:
Questions from the non-industry worker. 😉

I know I try not to buy food when I’m at work, but if I traveled – forget it! I’d be broke and 100 pounds heavier.

Do you get comped for your food while traveling? If not, do you set specific budgets for specific cities? For example, if you knew you were going somewhere that had yummy food, do you splurge?

FP: Hi Angel, thanks for your question. We do get comped for our food. It’s not much, somewhere around $2.00 per hour that you are away from your home domicile. So, yes I definitely “splurge” in certain cities. Seattle, San Francisco, Chicago, and Boston to name a few!

If I am working a trip that is productive, meaning more flying less down time, I do bring my own food. I have a great cooler, from Ebags.com…and what a great cooler it is! It’s on sale right now for $29.99, marked down from $50.00! You’d be surprised how much food I do bring. I usually bring perishables that I will use up the first day of my trip and the rest of my food might be tuna, soup, almonds, etc. I am actually planning on doing a post on what my cooler looks like packed and ready to go, so look for that.

And, as far as being heavy and broke? Well, depends. As a new “reserve” FA you’re usually broke and hungry, so at least you avoid being fat: ) It’s when you decide to fly as an International FA that the fat threat comes into play! Imagine flying late at night with nothing to do but eat leftover ice cream sundaes and all kinds of cheese with crackers! Dangerous! It can be worse than the freshman 15: )

From Albert:
Now, tell us… Your most embarrassing moment as a FA? (at least the one that you will admit publicly!).

And to even things out… your most brilliant moment as a FA?

FP: Albert’s questions are more difficult: ) My most embarrassing moment? I guess I would have to say, several years ago when I was flying with a very funny male FA who reminded me of Martin Short. He and I were working on the bar cart together and he decided to embarrass me by asking me how my boyfriend was. I was caught completely off guard because when I answered “great” he went on to say, real loud for everyone to hear, “you know, you really shouldn’t date married pilots…you’ll never get anything…he’ll never leave his wife…and if he does….you’ll get half…half of his time…half of his income…blah…blah…blah!!!

He, of course made all of this up but I was ten shades of red with no where to hide and what could I say? Ummm, it’s not true! Don’t believe him! In retrospect it was funny but at the time I wanted to jump over the cart and kill him: )

My most brilliant? hmmm? All my days are brilliant…..ok…maybe not all of them; – ) I guess my most brilliant was when I had to take over for the pilots and land the airplane….kidding…..ha…ha!!

I guess I would say it was the “fire” that turned out not to be a fire on board. In the few emergencies I’ve had I was able to stay calm and perform my duties. My training really kicked in.

Thanks again for the great questions, and Albert remind me next Tuesday that I have to do my Wednesday post that night……will ya, please?