Talk about a glamorous job!!
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Talk about a glamorous job!!
Think the life of a hostie is glamorous, well just read "Tales of my Delhi-flight":
They seem to have suddenly closed the airport in Delhi to rebuild the runway just as we were ready to take off, I wonder what goes on in the controllers heads? Probably "Oh by the way, Elegant Airlines said they'd pop around tomorrow and bring 300 of their closest friends" ... "Roger that Hissam, well just keep them on the runway in Dubai until we feel like opening up again" ... "No problem, Ayman, they have a load of screaming babies, baggage stowed in the blocked toilets seeing as the ground-staff understand that passengers need all their worldy possesions in the cabin with them, and a few hundred men in Turbans demanding whiskey and "one piece playing card", but I'm sure the stewardesses are still all smiling brightly, especially since its 04h00 and they are all feeling really alert" ... "Roger that, Hissam, pity you can't open the bars while you're on the runway but I'm sure the Hindi-speaking passengers will enjoy the extra time to look at the pictures in the Arab newspapers. Glad no-one tried to take a box of live snakes on board with them this time - you know those charmers! What are they serving on the flight by the way?" ... "Oh, the usual Delhi-belly 'Weg' or 'non-weg' Ayman, and the odd few million cups of 'chi' (tea) ... Hah,ha, the hosties are going to have fun tonight - we thought we'd challenge them with loading fewer meals than passengers as research shows that not everyone eats breakfast" ... "Roger that, good thinking Hissam, I heard that you also loaded double-pin headsets when Echo-Kilo-India actually has single-pin attachments" ... "Yes Ayman, good thing we don't have a Hindu speaker on the crew tonight, so the passengers might not cotton on" ... "Roger that, Hissam, oh by the way we're loading 100 Croations on on the flight back; drink 6- bottles of red wine each for breakfast but are quite sweet really" ... "Just make sure you load some passengers on, who will loiter in the galley for 40 minutes getting under everybody's feet and then go back to their seats to press their call-bells for a glass of water" ... "No probs, I'll just find some who will need to go up and down the aisle just as the hosties easily manoeuvre their 80-kilogram carts down the wide and spacious aisles"...
Quite a successful flight really, as you can see I was totally refreshed once I got home at 13h45 this afternoon, don't know why I felt the need to sleep the afternoon away really meaning that I'm now eating my breakfast at 01h00 and just about to mop the kitchen floor over...
They seem to have suddenly closed the airport in Delhi to rebuild the runway just as we were ready to take off, I wonder what goes on in the controllers heads? Probably "Oh by the way, Elegant Airlines said they'd pop around tomorrow and bring 300 of their closest friends" ... "Roger that Hissam, well just keep them on the runway in Dubai until we feel like opening up again" ... "No problem, Ayman, they have a load of screaming babies, baggage stowed in the blocked toilets seeing as the ground-staff understand that passengers need all their worldy possesions in the cabin with them, and a few hundred men in Turbans demanding whiskey and "one piece playing card", but I'm sure the stewardesses are still all smiling brightly, especially since its 04h00 and they are all feeling really alert" ... "Roger that, Hissam, pity you can't open the bars while you're on the runway but I'm sure the Hindi-speaking passengers will enjoy the extra time to look at the pictures in the Arab newspapers. Glad no-one tried to take a box of live snakes on board with them this time - you know those charmers! What are they serving on the flight by the way?" ... "Oh, the usual Delhi-belly 'Weg' or 'non-weg' Ayman, and the odd few million cups of 'chi' (tea) ... Hah,ha, the hosties are going to have fun tonight - we thought we'd challenge them with loading fewer meals than passengers as research shows that not everyone eats breakfast" ... "Roger that, good thinking Hissam, I heard that you also loaded double-pin headsets when Echo-Kilo-India actually has single-pin attachments" ... "Yes Ayman, good thing we don't have a Hindu speaker on the crew tonight, so the passengers might not cotton on" ... "Roger that, Hissam, oh by the way we're loading 100 Croations on on the flight back; drink 6- bottles of red wine each for breakfast but are quite sweet really" ... "Just make sure you load some passengers on, who will loiter in the galley for 40 minutes getting under everybody's feet and then go back to their seats to press their call-bells for a glass of water" ... "No probs, I'll just find some who will need to go up and down the aisle just as the hosties easily manoeuvre their 80-kilogram carts down the wide and spacious aisles"...
Quite a successful flight really, as you can see I was totally refreshed once I got home at 13h45 this afternoon, don't know why I felt the need to sleep the afternoon away really meaning that I'm now eating my breakfast at 01h00 and just about to mop the kitchen floor over...
