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- Flight attendants spend hundreds of hours in the air each year, so they learn to notice small details about the planes they work on and the passengers that fly on them.
- Whether spotting nervous passengers from their body language or always knowing where the nearest exit is, flight attendants experience air travel in a totally different way than the average person does.
- Business Insider spoke with seven flight attendants who described 10 things they notice on flights that passengers probably don’t.
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Flight attendants spend hundreds of hours in the air each year, so they learn to notice small details about the planes they work on and the passengers that fly on them.
Whether spotting nervous passengers from their body language or always knowing where the nearest exit is, flight attendants experience air travel in a totally different way than the average person does.
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Business Insider spoke with seven flight attendants who described 10 things they notice on flights that passengers probably don’t. Four of the flight attendants requested anonymity due to a fear of reprisal from their employers.
These are some of the small details that stick out to flight attendants.
The photos in this story do not depict the flight attendants Business Insider interviewed.
When passengers don’t have bags.
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"I notice if people don’t have bags with them, and sometimes that strikes me as odd," a flight attendant for United Airlines said.
Passengers who are in a bad mood.
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"If people are having a bad day, I definitely notice that," the United flight attendant said. "You can tell by the person’s body language or facial expressions or if they’ve been crying. I know that air travel is really hard for people."
What the "ding" sounds mean.
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"There’s a lot of ‘dings’ that go on on the plane that mean specific things to the flight crew, but passengers don’t know what any of them are," a flight attendant for Delta Air Lines said.
There are "dings" for phone calls, when the plane has reached an altitude of 10,000 feet, and when the seatbelt sign is turned on or off, among other events, she said.
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Source: Business Insider – mmatousek@businessinsider.com (Mark Matousek)