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“When you’re standing there going ‘Buh-bye, thank you, take care’ etc when you see someone you fancy, you say ‘cheerio.’”
“You need to do it with a buddy and the challenge is to keep a straight face.”
So next time you fly and pass the flight attendants on the way out – keep an ear pricked for what they say!
DON’T MISS
“Cheerio” isn’t the only code word that suggests a cabin crew member likes the look of you.
Another flight attendant reveals a second code word staff sometimes use.
Flight attendant Emily Witkop revealed that one code word was related to a popular beverage.
She told the New York Post the term “hot coffee” means cabin crew fancy you.
“I recall for a few years there was a ‘hot coffee’ code among flight attendants,” she said.
“You would say, ‘I’ve got hot coffee in 3B!’ Which meant there was an extremely attractive passenger in that particular seat who the other flight attendants should check out.”
Of course, sometimes real romance does spring up.
A former flight attendant told Stuff.co.nz: “If you think about stories in your own workplace, when do scandals often happen? Work trips.
“Well, our job is all one big work trip, so as you would expect, it does happen.”
Passengers also try to romance cabin crew while they’re at work, the attendant added.
“I’ve had business cards slipped to me, notes scribbled on napkins,” the crew member said.
“It doesn’t happen a lot – but coming into contact with so many people, eventually, you’re going to get someone trying their luck.”
American pilot Patrick Smith has revealed his experience of the goings-on in his book Cockpit Confidential.
Those hoping for sordid details might well be disappointed. When asked if there is “hanky-panky” going on between the pilots and cabin crew, Smith says: “If so, I have long been excluded from it.
“All in all, it’s probably not much different from any other work environment, though things are maybe faster and looser, which is to say younger, at the regionals.