Flight Club

“Some come down in tears from dealing with what’s going on up in the wards”

I was about five years old, and we were at Heathrow Airport in one of the terminals, and I remember seeing these two ladies walking through, wearing brown and beige uniforms. I asked my mum, “What do they do?” She said, “They’re air hostesses.” And I replied: “That’s what I want to do when I’m older.”

I’ve been flying 23 years – who would have thought it? I was only going to do it for a year, just