Social media reveals the secret life of your flight attendants

Have you ever had a really terrible flight and wished that your flight attendants didn’t remember you?

Well, they did.

Cabin crew members are bringing what happens in the skies back down to earth with their – sometimes brutal – honesty in the form of stories, pictures and confessions, reports the Daily Mail.

Searching Twitter or Instagram for the hashtags #crewlife, #passengershaming and #flyingfeet uncovers the secret life of those who seem to live in the skies.

Shawn Kathleen is a former flight attendant and the mind behind the Rants of a Sassy Stew and Passenger Shaming blogs. Her Passenger Shaming Facebook, Twitter and Instagram give employees the chance to submit photos anonymously if they don’t want to expose terrible passengers on their own accounts.

“It’s … great to see people reading all these stories because now there’s photographic evidence that flight attendants are not making this shit up. It’s right here in front of you,” Kathleen told Buzzfeed. “Messages come in every so often that say, ‘Oh god, I used to do that and now I feel so bad! I won’t do that again.’ And, to me, that’s a big victory for air travel etiquette.”

But inconsiderate passengers only make up a small number of travellers.

“Luckily you meet some great people on the job and feel that you can make a connection with passengers sometimes,” Kathleen told MailOnline Travel.

Like anyone who works in customer service knows, every day is a gamble.

“No flight is ever the same. You never know what to expect when you walk on board,” Heather Poole, author of Cruising Attitude: Tales of Crashpads, Crew Drama and Crazy Passengers, told MailOnline Travel.

And although sometimes you may uncover the worst of worst, the life of a flight attendant isn’t “just a job,” explained Poole. But rather, “a lifestyle.”

“It’s strange – but wonderful – nomadic life.”