Most flight attendants are incredibly professional, even when dealing with difficult passengers.
But apparently, many of them also have a LOT of thoughts they’d love to say out loud someday. 😆
If you’ve ever worked with the general public, you know that it’s not an easy job. Sure, some of the people you deal with might but lovely. But you’ve also got the ones who think the rules don’t apply to them, who don’t understand, or who are just generally unpleasant and you’re convinced they’ve been that way since they came out of the womb.
Of course, being a professional, you maintain your cool and do the best you can. But there are certainly things you would love to say to these difficult people, if only you could do so without getting into trouble.
Which brings us to a recent conversation on Reddit – a Redditor, who goes by the handle u/Clemen11, asked a bunch of flight attendants what they would say to passengers, if there were no consequences involved.
You’re given 5 minutes of consequence-free PA use where you can tell whatever the hell you want to passengers without consequences. What do you say?
Some of the responses were pretty eye-opening:
- Dont ask me what island that is out the window. How tf would I know that s**t? My jobs in here, not taking geological surveys over some land mass. If you insist I know it, I will make up some name like Pendejo Island or Caso Perdido River — FeelingArt4425 (BTW – true story!)
- Keep your seatbelts fastened until we’ve arrived at the gate. The deadliest plane crash of all time happened on the ground. — u/girnn
- In my airline, we don’t have language of destination pay, and we’ve been specifically instructed far too many times that we are not to speak any language other than English over the PA.
Consequence free? Ya girl speaks fast, I’d go OFF in Spanish over the PA. You mean to tell me we fly to Puerto Rico, Mexico, the Dominican Republic, Costa Rica, among others, and us folks who can speak the language can’t do it over the PA to help boarding actually go by faster? And don’t even get me started on the backhanded comments by the PAX themselves complaining about us in Spanish as if we didn’t hear or understand them 😭
I try my darn best to help in the cabin (fortunately I have a voice that’s fantastic for emergency evacuations 🫠) in these cases, but the use of the PA for this would be nice. I could fit quite a bit of info in five minutes, coupled with some sass 😂 — Tiny_Paprika - If you try to take your bags with you during an evacuation I’m gonna make sure you stay on the plane with it– Thebank002
- I would let them know that if I see any luggage during an evacuation I will take it and throw it off the slide and break it for them because they are potentially killing other passengers for their selfish actions– Lost_Lavishness-938
- Bring your own damned pen. Borrowing mine and “forgetting” to return it is a scam that has run its course long ago. Im not Staples in the sky with 1000 pens in my crew bag. — Feeling_Art4425
- WASH YOUR HANDS AND FLUSH THE TOILET. YOU’RE NASTY. WE KNOW.– DancesWith Hookers
- Every seemingly insignificant rule we tell you is because something bad happened for it to become a rule. — Kind-Party5569
- I would thank them for being there and tell them how grateful I am that they’re flying so I can be employed. I’m a recently unemployed FA due to a company going out of business. — funkmom
- I quit. — Hot-Towel-85
You can read the rest of the replies here.
Honestly, if there’s one big takeaway from all of this, it’s probably that flight attendants deal with WAY more nonsense than most passengers realize.
And while some of the comments were clearly tongue-in-cheek, a lot of them also came from very real frustrations:
- passengers ignoring safety instructions
- bad hygiene
- entitled behavior
- and people acting like the rules somehow don’t apply to them
So maybe the next time a flight attendant asks you to put your seatbelt back on, leave your bag behind during an evacuation, or stop crowding the aisle before the plane has even reached the gate…just remember: there’s probably a story behind why they’re saying it. 😏
Also, apparently y’all need to start bringing your own pens.
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