Flight attendants discuss the Mile High Club, the "toilet paper trick" and "aisle surfing"
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Aisle surfing, and other bad behaviour
Tales of drinking and debauchery are nothing new. British Airways was forced to launch an investigation in 2013 following complaints from passengers about the alcohol-fuelled behaviour of its off-duty cabin crew on a flight to Washington; while a YouTube video showing two female attendants stripping down to their underwear – shot in a hotel during a stopover between flights – also angered bosses at the airline. Most will be unfamiliar with aisle surfing, however. “Betty”, whose column “Confessions of a Fed-Up Flight Attendant” appears on Yahoo! Travel, explains: “It’s rare, but there are flights where there are no passengers on board. With no passengers to see us we can do things we would never do in the sight of paying customers. This is when we go aisle surfing. You get a meal tray, then stand or sit on it at the front of the airplane. On takeoff, you attempt to aisle surf all the way to the back of the plane.”
She also describes an initiation prank for new flight attendants: “The ‘air test’ is where you tell the new hire that we have to test the air quality on certain flights. You give them a recycle bag and tell them to go catch the air in First Class and then have them do another air catching spectacle for the economy cabin. Upon arrival, we have them hand in their bags full of air to a stunned gate agent.”
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