A principal asked for a specific brand of sparkling water that is…

Yara Haddad · Flight Attendant at Meridian Flight Department · Teterboro, NJ

A principal asked for a specific brand of sparkling water that is not sold in the country we were sitting in. I found four bottles at a hotel bar downtown and paid far too much for them. That is the job. Not the safety training, which is the actual job, but the part people notice.

3 comments

Priya Raman

Same flight department, and Yara has rescued a trip more times than the airplane has.

Shayla Boone

Airline side we would have said we ran out. The gap between our two jobs is enormous and it all sits in that one sentence.

Yara Haddad

I have said we ran out exactly once, in nine years, and I still think about it.