Product Description

In-Flight Entertainment is a classic humour book, an air steward's account of fourteen years' worth of airline incidents, reminding us of the absurdities of flying. This wonderful collection of over 30 eye-opening true stories includes: Lechery at 30,000 Feet; Conduct Unbecoming in an Investment Banker; The Ferret in First Class; Unusual Upgrading Attempts; I Thought This Plane was Heading for Jamaica; The Thing About Turbulence; Beer and Loathing in Caracas...

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #67279 in Books
• Published on: 2002-06-06
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 258 pages

Scott Rosenberg, Salon.com
‘Hester has a sharp eye for human folly that would serve him well as a writer on any subject…’

Tony Wheeler (Lonely Planet Publications)
‘Tighten your seatbelt and assume the brace position. This is the flight attendant’s revenge!’

From the Author
‘Human behaviour is rarely more incomprehensible that when witnessed on a airplane at 30,000 feet.’

Customer Reviews

I challange you not too laugh out loud!
There isnt anything bad i can say about this book, there is a laugh onevery page! The best thing is, the narrator doesnt drag out the stories,they are short and snappy which makes this book incredibly easy to read. Once i started i couldnt stop, i love this book and could easily pick itup and read it again and again!
I am intrigued though to whichairline Elliott Hester use to fly for, sounds like they have some quiteinteresting passengers i would love to observe them in all there splendidglory!

Beware of reading this on a plane
Picked up a copy of this book at a stopover at LAX and then read it all the way to the Cook Islands. Very funny, but got me a lot of funny looks from the air crew. I think that this might be a well known book amongst them - it certainly will change the way that you view them in future, in good ways and bad! A really funny book that will have you in stitches, and a perfect in flight read!

Nothing if not entertaining
This is a fun read. As others have said before me, it's arranged into short chapters so it's convenient to pick up when you have a spare 10 mins but it's also un-put-downable, making the short chapter arrangement somewhat redundant. Reading this book throws a whole new light on the you-would-be-tempted-to-think glamourous lives of air staff. Few readers will be fail to be reminded of a journey they had squashed beside a stinker or foul-tempered fellow passenger.
The only winge I have with this book is the author's tendancy to pack every page to the gills with similes in an attempt, one assumes, to make his anecdotes even more amusing. His experiences don't require this embellishment and it can eventually grate on the nerves.
Still, the perfect book to take on holiday with you. Read it on the plane and give the grouch in seat 15B something to worry about as you glance at him knowingly and grin