This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Jodye Beard-Brown, a 58-year-old United Airlines flight attendant in Houston. It has been edited for length and clarity. In 1994, I had just ...

With unruly passenger incidents on the rise, flight attendants turn to self-defense training The FAA has received over 3,000 reports of unruly passenger incidents this year.

My mom had to retrain after her time away and graduated from Southwest's flight attendant program on April 24, 2014, but her hire date was actually the following day, April 25, 2014.

My mom had to retrain after her time away and graduated from Southwest's flight attendant program on April 24, 2014, but her hire date was actually the following day, April 25, 2014.

"Being a flight attendant, you have to be able to do that when there's an issue that occurs at 36,000 feet in the air. It's not like we call the manager to resolve it, or ask the person to leave.

Flight attendant Barbara Bacilieri has divulged some surprising aviation rules that pilots must allegedly adhere to in the name of safety, including refraining from having the same meal as their ...