Plane Insanity: A Flight Attendant's Tales of Sex, Rage, and Queasiness at 30,000 Feet

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Summary: In the Friendly Skies
Review: Ever wonder what the job of a flight attendant consists of when you are being hurtled through space in that metal cylinder? It isn't just coffee, tea or me. Elliott Hester has written a wacky, fun, never dull book on the challanges of dealing with the public at 30,000 feet.
Everything that could go wrong does wrong on an airliner. Only when it goes awry up there it is ten times worse. He tells of Big Bertha, the flight attendant from hell, who makes macho pilots quake in their boots. The San Juan flight where two men get in a fight over a Panama hat, passengers who try to sneak into first class, the passengers from hell. The list goes on.
Hester writes with great humor and a very entertaining style. This book is one that everyone who gets on an airplane should read. The next time you see a flight attendant serving dinner or taking care of the passengers you will have a new appreciation of them.
My hat is off to the men and women who work the friendly skies

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Summary: Funny Book
Review: I loved this book. I read it in two days because I couldn't stop laughing. I fly frequently and have always wondered what kind of fun story's flight attendance have.

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Summary: Funny, Funny, Funny
Review: This book is pure entertainment value! The stories are laugh out loud funny and it's light read. The many vignettes are broken up into short chapters so this book can be read at one's leisure. As a Flight Attendant I, too, have witnessed many of the antics described so cleverly in this book. It's a great book for laughs; however, I do not recommend reading this as a guide to deciding whether or not the Flight Attendant career is for you. In almost every situation, Mr. Hester describes jetting off to some exotic locale, staying in 4 star hotels, crew lounges at the hotels which host wild parties, etc. This kind of lifestyle is only applicable (and attainable) to one out of every hundred (possible thousand!) flight attendants (and it is definitely not applicable to new Flight Attendants!). But his experience does make for some great stories!