Flight Attendant
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Description
Object Lessons is a series of a short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.
Written by a veteran flight attendant who ultimately left for a life on the ground, Lori Jakiela pulls back the curtain on a job that has been glamorized, mythologized, sexualized, misrepresented, and misunderstood. Flight Attendant unveils the truth about the not-always-friendly skies and the realities of working in a profession that has mediated our experience of being in the air from the golden age of Pan Am 747's to today's long-haul economy cabins.
Flight Attendant offers an insider's look at a sometimes magical, but often heart-wrenching and challenging career in an embattled industry built on the dream that flight equals freedom, and that travel, wherever we take off and wherever we land, enriches our lives.
Table of Contents
1. You'll Love the Way We Fly
2. The History of Flight Attendants I Never Knew
3. Uniform Fitting
4. Training Days
5. What They Do and Don't Tell You about Airplanes
6. First Flights
7. Coffee, Tea, or Not Me
8. I Thought Licking Might Happen a Lot: On Weird Things that Happen on Airplanes and (Maybe) Why They Happen
9. Layover (or How We All Dream of a Break Even So)
10. Lifesaving
11. Lifesaving: Leaving the Profession Even So
12. Epilogue: God Damn It, Be Kind (To Each Other and Your Flight Crew)
Appendix: How to Have Your Best Flight Ever, According to a Flight Attendant
Index
Product details
| Published | May 13 2027 |
|---|---|
| Format | Paperback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 160 |
| ISBN | 9798216452324 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Dimensions | 165 x 121 mm |
| Series | Object Lessons |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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