What really goes on once they dim the lights at 39,000ft? Do celebrities get special treatment in the air? And why is there always a queue for the loo? Paul Croughton persuades a team of flight attendants to turn supergrass
Now, where did I put her?
“We were coming in to land, and a mum in business went to the loo and left her six-month-old child on the flat bed. A cabin-crew member came along, turned it into a chair again, tidied everything up and carried on with her duties. When the mum returned, she started screaming, “Oh, my God, who’s taken my child?”, as the baby had disappeared. None of the cabin crew had taken her or seen her, and everyone was getting pretty stressed.
Then somebody heard a faint crying coming from the chair, so we all rushed to turn the chair back into a bed, and there was the baby, with the seat belt wrapped around her. Because she was strapped in, she didn’t get hurt — the duvet fits in there, so there’s a fair bit of room — but the mother had become pretty hysterical, and was just so relieved that she was fine. As were we.”
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