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Cabin crew reveal strangest things they’ve ever been asked on a flight
We’ve all made a request or two during a long flight, but most of the time we’re only asking for a drink or perhaps some earplugs – not for the engine to be turned off because it’s too loud. Sounds strange? According to a flight attendant (and blogger) known as “Dan Air”, that’s not even the strangest demand cabin crew experience at 38,000 feet.
After asking his fellow hosties to share their stories, Dan was flooded with some crazy responses. Here are some of the most bizarre.
- One passenger asked for a hot chocolate but was refused by the flight attendant, who explained they were unable to pour hot drinks at the moment due to turbulence. The passenger’s response? “Oh ok… I’ll have a cup of tea then.”
- While flying over Europe, a bewildered traveller asked, “Is there a window open? It’s freezing on this plane.”
- A very vocal passenger, who had already requested “low-calorie water” and “artificial sugar with my latte” had another demand – “Can you turn those engines off? They are far too loud.”
- Upon landing after a 17-hour flight, a traveller asked the cabin crew if they took the flight straight back again. “Sorry, are you serious?” the flight attendant asked, bemused. “Well, I know that there is a flight back home two hours after we land,” the confused passenger added. The hostie replied, “Yes sir, taken by a crew who arrived two days ago and have had a damn good sleep.”
- After running out of tea during the flight, an angry passenger demanded to know if they would be getting any more before they landed. “Sorry, no, not at 38,000 feet!”
- “How often do you see UFOs?” one paranoid traveller asked.
- One cabin crew member had a woman confess she hated flying because “at that altitude, she could feel the spirits of people who had just died pass through her on their way up to heaven.”
- “Are we arriving in arrivals or departures?”
- “Excuse me steward, I’ve left my wallet and phone in the airport bar,” a traveller suddenly realised. “Can we turn around?”
- “I had someone ask me if I could point out the international date line when we flew across it,” a flight attendant recalled. “I told them to keep a look out for the red line, just like on the maps.”