whatmeworry
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Just saw this article on a new book, "Confessions of a Qantas Flight Attendant' by Owen Beddall.
Looks like to be an entertaining read.
http://www.smh.com.au/travel/midnig...rom-the-firstclass-galley-20140624-3apyx.html
Looks like to be an entertaining read.
On one flight, one of the Gallagher brothers from the British band Oasis offered flight attendants £1000 ($AU1807) a piece to turn a blind eye to them smoking in the toilets. “What should I do? “ one of the attendants asked Owen, his senior. “Just get the money up front,” he replied.
Beddall also recalls the time Olympic hero Grant Hackett went "off his head" on sleeping pills. After a bad reaction to too many Stillnox he attempted to head to first from business class and pee inside the plane. “Restraining him was like attempting to hold down a racehorse”.
“I couldn’t believe the wealthy women who fly first class who’ve paid $20,000 for a first class ticket, but who steal the cutlery and the amenities, says Beddall. “If they’ve paid that much, all they have to do is bloody well ask.”
Beddall also says he was bribed by female flight attendants who wanted to work on the upper deck, which services the “coughpit” (they were known as TCMs or tech crew molls) and reveals where crews like to stopover so they can fill their little black bags with all kids and colours of pills – uppers, downers, such as sleeping tablets and ones to help them wake up.
http://www.smh.com.au/travel/midnig...rom-the-firstclass-galley-20140624-3apyx.html