I'm a former flight attendant and here's the perfect place (and time) to join the mile-high club

'Diary of A Flight Attendant' is a look at life at 38,000 feet It's by Marika Mikusova, who spent five years working for a 'luxury airline' READ MORE: The 50s and 60s were- they REALLY the golden age? air travel?
By Ted Thornhill, Mailonline Travel Editor
Published: 09:54 BST, 29 Apr 2023 | Updated: 29 April 2023 09:54 BST
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Think the life of a flight attendant is one big party?
A former flight attendant has set the record straight in a book that collects her diary entries made while working for a "luxury airline" for five years.
"Diary of a Flight Attendant" by Marika Mikusova is a warts and all behind-the-scenes look at what it's really like to work at 38,000 feet. Read on for some of the revelations in the tome, from the best place and time to join the mile-high club to why Germans are the best at boarding and the shocking habits of cabin cleaning crews... /p>
GERMANS – AND THEIR SEAT CHANGING PROCESS
Marika reveals how "the self-boarding on a German Flight".
She explains: "Passengers know where to sit and how to stow their luggage in the luggage racks. hats [hanging lockers], which they then close themselves. And if they want to change seats with someone, they will ask them themselves, instead of coming to us like little children to sort it out...

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I'm a former flight attendant and here's the perfect place (and time) to join the mile-high club

'Diary of A Flight Attendant' is a look at life at 38,000 feet It's by Marika Mikusova, who spent five years working for a 'luxury airline' READ MORE: The 50s and 60s were- they REALLY the golden age? air travel?

By Ted Thornhill, Mailonline Travel Editor

Published: 09:54 BST, 29 Apr 2023 | Updated: 29 April 2023 09:54 BST

12022345-image-a-196_1682694933366.jpg" height="306" width="306" alt="Former flight attendant Marika Mikusova" class="nothing " />

Think the life of a flight attendant is one big party?

A former flight attendant has set the record straight in a book that collects her diary entries made while working for a "luxury airline" for five years.

"Diary of a Flight Attendant" by Marika Mikusova is a warts and all behind-the-scenes look at what it's really like to work at 38,000 feet. Read on for some of the revelations in the tome, from the best place and time to join the mile-high club to why Germans are the best at boarding and the shocking habits of cabin cleaning crews... /p>

GERMANS – AND THEIR SEAT CHANGING PROCESS

Marika reveals how "the self-boarding on a German Flight".

She explains: "Passengers know where to sit and how to stow their luggage in the luggage racks. hats [hanging lockers], which they then close themselves. And if they want to change seats with someone, they will ask them themselves, instead of coming to us like little children to sort it out...