Hey Sarah, How are you? This is your old Newark, NJ roommate – one of many. How about you pickup a trip to Jax or come on one of your many days off in December and meet my crew. We would love to have you. Dave just flew with Janice and I got your contact info again – lost the other (my new years resolution will be to be more organized and stay in touch with friends better). Hope to hear from you soon.

Stacey

Give your mom my regards. we met on a flight from Tampa to Houston and had a blast! good thing we were in the last row in fist class of a 757! she was wearing a shirt that read “Marry me, Fly free” and i jumped at the deal.

i think she would remember me. we had our share of wine and laughs. this was last year at this time. great memories!

New TV show is seeking people who travel frequently and have two lives- one at home and one on the road (think along the lines of the film “Up In The Air”).

Do you use your career, money, hobbies, or frequent travel as a way to live a secret life?

Major U.S. tv network is currently looking for men and women living secret lives who are ready to free themselves and reveal the truth on a documentary style
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There is a gym located at the Radisson Hotel at LAX connected to the terminal. Here is the link for airport gyms…http://www.airportgyms.com/gyms/usa.html

Hello, met you on the Daytime show in tampa. Could you in box me.?

What do the other flight crew members think about affairs between pilots and flight attendants?

If the captain and the lead F.A. are having an affair, bidding the trip together etc.- can the rest of the crew see it? Do they ever say anything? If a FA is using a jump seat to follow the captain around on his layovers- is it obvious to the rest of the crew?

Having found this blog by accident (it came up in an Google alert I have set for Chicago related items), it was quite refreshing to see what others have to say about the city itself and where they went.

Next time you are in Chicago, I highly recommend going to Nave Pier, plenty of people watching, shopping, food and drink to be had. In fact, a Jimmy Buffett’s Margaritaville just opened up recently there. They also have a Harry Caray’s Tavern (if you are into baseball or sports in general). Plenty of other places to eat at as well.

Hope this helps out a little as Chicago is a very large city. I would recommend asking the locals as well because there are places that they only know about as well (I am a Cheesehead but we have a train station here that takes us into the Windy City). Keep up the great work and I’ll be sure to check in on which places you blog from next.

Paul

Just ran across your pod cast with the ex Pan AM Flight attendents (or am I allowed to say Stewardess) and wow what a rush of memories. As a child in the mid 70’s my family lived in Southeast Asia and Europe, we would fly Pan AM / TWA / United / Sing Air / JAL etc and the descriptions of how air travel used to be were great. I remember those flights on a 747 across the Pacific either via Anchorage, AK or Honolulu and then if I remember correctly via LAX to JFK then over to BOS to come home for the summer. These flights were my chariot back home after a year of living in a strange place and the people working those flights would make us feel like we were already home from the minute we boarded, they would talk to us and treat us like family. My sister and I used to help with clean up service and I hope we did actually help. We were always taught how to act correctly while traveling, and to this day when I travel with my kids, everybody is dressed in “Sunday best”. I remember one time my father was transferred to London and we got to fly First class BOS-LHR so in preparation for the big event my father took me to purchase a sport coat before the flight, it was on TWA and my sister and I didn’t make it to cruise before we passed out in the huge seats, but we were still woken up before landing so we could have a bite of roast beef which I still to this day remember as some of the most delicious food I have ever tasted, I think the flight crew had to do a run by to clear our plates away while landing. Now that I have a family I have tried to pass this along to them, my kids have been forbidden to use the call button and to this day I don’t think I have ever used it (minus an unintentional hit while trying to get comfortable, always very embarrassing). I’m sorry for the crews and passengers alike that now travel, the airlines have had to make such cutbacks that the crews don’t have the tools to make travel pleasant and the passengers seem to have lost their ability to be polite, courteous and willing to stick it out when things don’t go their way, I am lucky enough to travel up front these days with my current job and am shocked by what I see. Much appreciation to the crews that are still outgoing and don’t mind having a quick word in the galley while waiting for the toilet to open up, and thank you for the extra drink or two brought to my seat without being asked because somehow they seem to know it has been a long week or month away from home and that last 4-5 hours home of what is usually a 24 hour plus journey is just to long.