Don’t Sneak A Deceased Person On The Flight
Should go without saying right? Apparently, some people take the classic movie Weekend at Bernie’s a bit too seriously and try to pretend a dead person is still alive. Yes, this has happened on flights before. Actually, to transport a dead body on a flight costs somewhere around $5,000. That’s why some people have tried sneaking on dead family members. Maybe you already heard about a Miami passenger who tried boarding with his dead mother hidden in a garment bag. Since funeral directors get offered loyalty miles from airlines, the price isn’t truly their first concern. Therefore, flight attendants must always look out for this and even prepare for a possibly on-flight death. In fact, Singapore Airlines has a special storage space called the ‘corpse cupboard’ just in case anyone passes away on the flight.
Don’t Sneak A Deceased Person On The Flight
Fighting Human Trafficking
Another unexpected but crucial role of flight attendants is to act as a defense to human trafficking. This all started with an American Airlines flight attendant named Sandra Fiorini, who testified to Congress after seeing an 18 year-old man with a newborn. (The newborn still had an umbilical cord attached but there wasn’t a mother there.) Every since 2007 Sandra Fiorini has been working with a woman named Deborah Sigmund, who founded a nonprofit called Innocents at Risk, which trains airline crews on what to look for and subsequent actions to take. In 2011, some trained airline members helped the police at the Super Bowl because that event has become a hotbed for trafficking prostitutes.
Fighting Human Trafficking
