Did 3 years after uni for a total change.
Much harder than people realise – safety tests and equipment location tests before every flight – get it wrong and you’re grounded and likely to lose your job.
Extensive first aid/survival/evac training – but this is shielded from passengers so as not to alarm them to “possibilities”, but net result of that is the appealing way many crew are treated by passengers.
Met some awesome passengers though – Honor Blackman was a frequent flyer with us. Genuinely lovely and proper old skool classy – used to get on with chocolates etc for the crew every flight.
Night flight to Tel Aviv was the worst – horrible, horrible rude people. But it was OK, making up quadruple strength coffee and watch them all twitching made up for it.
I could write a book about some of the things we saw/did over those years!!