Our old friend Doug Lansky has been a traveling whirlwind this year, collecting data and taking notes for his newly released book, The Titanic Awards, a compendium of the world’s worst travel mishaps. Below, he reflects on his experiences with flight attendants.
Even if you don’t have permanent scarring where the drink cart meets you elbow, you’ve probably flown enough to know that some flight attendants seem to handle the tired, agitated and even content passengers better than others. Perhaps it’s just a few bad apples, but it seems American and United have attracted (or trained) enough of them to share the title according to a survey of over 2000 people from 80 different countries, Disagree with these results? Take the new 2010 survey at TitanicAwards.com. For more fun survey results and other “Worsts of Travel” tales, check out the book, The Titanic Awards (Perigee, May 4, 2010).
Check out the results of the survey in the slideshow below.
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