A former Virgin Atlantic flight attendant has revealed what irritates her the most about passengers who travel on long haul flights — and it is not what you think
A flight attendant has revealed the most annoying thing a passenger can do when travelling on a long haul flight.
Skye Taylor, from Southampton, worked as a stewardess for 17 years, working her way up from serving low-cost airlines to eventually landing a job with Virgin Atlantic.
Having left her job over a year ago, the 49-year-old is now sharing secrets from working on board flights.
For Skye, her biggest pet peeve with passengers on long haul flights is actually when passengers don’t speak to flight crew when they need something.
“If you’ve got a long long flight don’t stay silent. I would rather someone come up to me and say ‘I’m cold can you get me an extra blanket or can you turn up the air con’ than sit there and be cold the whole flight.
“That’s my biggest bug bear. I’ll always just check with people as well, ‘are you warm enough’, you know, it’s just a polite thing to do,” Skye said, reports MailOnline.
“I couldn’t imagine somebody sitting there for 10 hours and being so cold,” she added.
Skye explained, that in her experience, the temperature on board a flight can vary, revealing that some spots are colder than others, such as by the aircrafts doors.
Vanessa Settimi, a Swoop Airlines flight attendant and in-flight instructor, revealed to Reader’s Digest that the “temperature in the cabin is controlled by the pilots, so even though travellers often ask to get the temperature turned up during flights, it is kept on the cooler side.” This is because a cooler cabin helps passengers who are prone to fainting or have motion sickness during turbulence.
The former flight stewardess also shared a simple mistake that could also get you a lifetime ban from flying.
One day when scrolling through TikTok, Skye came across a video and was horrified by what she saw. “An influencer stepped over the markings [on the runway], the safety area, and everyone was like ‘oh wow, that’s incredible’. But she was right near the engine, it was ridiculous,” she shared.
Skye also saw in another video an influencer was writing on the mirror in the bathroom. The seemingly harmless act can actually end up as a massive security risk, Skye revealed.
“Because it has been known that messages have been left for, you know [dangerous people] and I think a lot of the time people, I don’t want to say it because I’m old, but it’s like a younger generation thing,” she said. “It’s safety at the end of the day, something could happen to you or you could put that aircraft in danger, and I’ve seen it a lot.
“Doing that to get views, that’s ridiculous. It’s crazy, plus you’ll probably get a lifetime ban from flying as well.”
Skye believes that some influencers have become more daring and risky, in order to just get views, and therefore do not think about the serious consequences of their actions.
