Air Hostess  Housewife By K.J. Watts The waves in Cronulla look good, but I can’t be sure from the cameras. I need to check the surfin person. Close to sneaking out of the house, my husband catches me with a chore. Hook line, he reels me away from the scooter that I ride to the beach. It’s a white Vespa-like motorbike, and my yellow surfboard hovers next to it like a sidecar. My surfboard and I are the best of friends. Her name is Sunny.  “Saturday is Washing Day,” Hubs says as if I don’t remember. I nod and slink into adulthood, thinking of the sweet old man I met a few weeks a ..read more

When he didn’t like me. When they didn’t like me. Catering gone wrong. Being SO single How it would all work out When he didn’t like me. I always thought it was my job. The boy I liked couldn’t keep up because the job I loved got in the way. So, I was fierce with my job, independence, and sensitivity towards the fuck-boys who ghosted. I cried, for good reason, over the boys I thought were for me. Who had to be for me. I wondered how I went so off track to have missed getting married in college (which was why most Christian colleges existed) by almost fifteen years. I was told ‘good luck with ..read more

Will I ever love a job again like I did ‘Flight Attendant Life?’…  To be honest, I don’t know.  FlightAttendantlfe.com His frosted hair, styled like Einstein, fell sideways, and he looked at me with squinted eyes as if trying to understand how a bubbly and quick-talking American girl landed at his shop. He resembled a scientist, creative and eccentric, when he explained how colors mixed to create the shades splashed across his surfboards. He shaped boards for over forty years from this studio, from a corner of Sydney where I lived (as of approximately three weeks before). I hadn’t m ..read more

The final blog in The Name Game 5-part series on Corporate Flight Training and Branding (EDITOR’S NOTE: The other title for this blog is, “THE NAME GAME – The Training Investment Contention,” and it is PART 5 in Scott D Arnold’s series about business aviation, corporate flight attendants, and private jet cabin training).   By Scott D. Arnold As a corporate flight attendant (or someone interested in working on private jets) you ever wondered: Why is cabin safety training so expensive? Why do I have to pay for my own damn training? Why is training so expensive?   Why is cabin attenda ..read more

I am not a scientist. I will not argue on pharmaceuticals, efficacy, or your body. I am a girl who explored the world and one reason was because I valued freedom. In seasons, being a flight attendant meant being free and that was more precious to me than money, things, or status. Until this year, I don’t think I grasped what “being free” meant. I don’t think I understood even slightly what life could look like when freedoms slipped away. When it looked like America would no longer be a place of free speech, free expression, and free choice.  I will not fight you on the good or bad of ..read more

By Scott D. Arnold, Sājet Solutions. Continuation of the Name Game series on Corporate Flight Attendant Training and Branding Whenever someone posts an inquiry about becoming a corporate flight attendant, the standard response is: “First, you must have cabin safety training by ________ (fill in the vendor).”  Some of you may be surprised to learn this was not always the case. When I first transitioned into business aviation in 2001, not a single flight department I flew for cared if I was cabin safety trained. Not a one (and there were several). Coming from a commercial airline (USAirways ..read more

Part of the Name Game series on Corporate Flight Attendant Cabin Safety Training. READ PART 1 READ PART 2 By Scott D. Arnold My previous blog, The Name Game – Cabin Safety Training Branding, initiated a significant number of private messages and emails regarding the subject matter. Mainly, because there is way too much inconsistent and inaccurate information shared regarding cabin safety training. This misinformation affects all corporate flight attendants.   Therefore, I’m “peeling back some of the layers in the cabin safety training onion.” In this blog, I’ll be providing some chec ..read more

The stigmas from over-branding yourself with a training vendor’s identity and stating you are “certified” By Scott D. Arnold; Sājet Solutions In my previous blog, The Name Game for Business Aviation Cabin Crew, I discussed what we are titled and why. To quickly summarize, it really doesn’t matter what you are called or how you title yourself. What matters is; are you featuring your title in a productive or counterproductive manner while representing your brand as a Corporate Flight Attendant, on your resume and social media? Over the years, I have seen many discussions on forums regardin ..read more

I sit at dinner with acquaintances. For over an hour, a person at the table went on and on about how stupid people are who won’t get vaccinated and, ‘What are they thinking?’ The person continues that, of course, these stupid people are not thinking. They must not have brains. I sip my sparkling water, nod, and smile demurely. I’m thankful for my career as a corporate flight attendant that has taught me to hold my tongue and pretend all is perfect. My smile is more of pursed lips and a jaw-clenched grin, but this goes unnoticed in the face science. As soon as my boyfriend and I get back i ..read more

Expectations are a part of life and a significant part of private aviation. Being me comes after being ‘the flight attendant.’ There is an expectation to look a certain way and be a certain thing. Forefront in my mind is that I am hired as a cabin attendant, on this private jet, to deliver a particular experience. Sometimes, that experience has nothing to do with who I am and everything to do with a character I play. We all hold expectations. When a guest books a private jet charter, there is an expectation. When I accept a trip from a private jet operator, I have a set of expectations. When a ..read more