Useful life hacks from experienced flight attendants!

For many flight attendants and stewardesses, travel is an integral part of life. They can spend in the air for 90 hours a month and to whom, and they certainly have something to share with inexperienced travelers. Here we have collected the most useful life hacks from flight attendants!

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1. Where should I sit for more attentive service?

All attendants on board the aircraft are well aware that passengers who sit in the rear seats at the rear of the train usually receive much more attentive service than those passengers who unknowingly sit in the front seats. Flight attendants are not willing to answer questions from people who sit in front. there is a high probability that they will meet the same questions more than once in the salon. However, it is much easier for them to bring an extra bottle of water to those passengers who are seated at the end.

2. How to easily and quickly iron clothes without an iron?

A flight attendant with over 30 years of experience shared her life hack for quick ironing. Small creases and folds on a shirt or skirt can be easily smoothed out with a hair straightener. And you do not need to spend time laying out the board, heating the iron, and setting the mode to iron the form.

3. How to always sleep in a clean bed?

A flight attendant with an experience of about 19 years told me how easy it is to check the cleanliness of the bed linen in the hotel: you need to carefully examine the bed linen that the maids have laid for you. If there are folds on it, indicating that the bed has been folded, then you can sleep peacefully on such linen. If you did not find such folds, then most likely someone has already slept on the bed linen.

4. How to darken a hotel room?

It often happens that long flights end in the daytime. Many people cannot fall asleep unless the room is completely dark. It is for such people that the following advice from the flight attendant: “If the room is too bright, but you need to sleep, use clothespins from a trouser hanger. They can easily pinch curtains and remove gaps that prevent you from falling asleep.

5. How to protect your hearing?

Try to never fly in an airplane if you have a severe cold, otherwise, there is a risk of damaging your eardrums and losing your hearing. One flight attendant shared this advice and her sad story: “It happened to me once. I couldn’t hear properly for a week and it was terribly painful.”

6. How to avoid neighborhoods with small children?

The worst thing is when you cannot control in flight what does not depend on you and there is no one to blame for this. This applies to small children on board, whose crying sometimes leads to a terrible headache and does not allow you to enjoy the flight. To avoid the neighborhood with small and newborn children as much as possible, simply do not buy seats with partitions. these are the only places where you can secure a baby bassinet.

7. How to deal with jet lag?

One of the flight attendants shares her method on how to overcome jetlag. It is necessary to turn off all electrical appliances, drink tea and read a little. Such a ritual will prepare the body for sleep as much as possible. This usually works, but if that doesn't help, then you can get up, do something, and then repeat to fall asleep again.