Tattoos & Emirates. Flash Update. The Red Polo Case.

A number of alarming emails have been sent to me in the past week or so concerning Tattoos and the new Training guidelines recently introduced and sent out to the new joiners. The new guidelines for personal grooming include a strict policy on Tattoos, piercings and Henna.
Recently, the training department has redesigned the whole starter [...]

Airboy haz da internetz wired. DOWNLOADABLES #84.

Boooya. Pop the glock peeps because Airboy is now fully wired with the world. And to celebrate, well I have some cool tracks to share with you today. The guys from DU (an internet provider here in Dubai) came this morning to install the box and TV decoder. So I now have the exquisite pleasure [...]

Emirates Global Assessment Days in September 2009 !!

Hi peeps. Here’s some extra good news for wannabe Cabin Crew. Emirates is planning to hold Global assessment days at the following locations in September 2009. Including one tomorrow in London, UK. Please follow the links and register to get an invitation. A full report and what to expect from these days is detailed here. [...]

Live from ZINC

Oli & Holly (strange huh ?) at zinc tonight. Live. This is my first attempt at LIVE BLOGGING. I’m still strugglinh with the phone keyboard. This is Oli and Holly. This was taken a few moments ago from our second home.

Well Done. Update of the last 72 hours

You probably remember one of my highly entertaining Mauritius trips back last month. We had to deal with something unusual on-board while cruising over the Indian Ocean (ETOPS, meaning far away from any suitable airport to divert to). I cannot give you any details as briefed but upon checking my snail-mail inbox this morning (I [...]

Barbie BOOTCAMP

It comes round every 10 months. It’s a right pain for your brain. But pain that is necessary if you want to earn money. Because without, well, you’re screwed.

Before I go anywhere else with what a recurrent training in Safety & Emergency Procedures (SEP) is actually about, I must give credit to Heather Poole for [...]

IKEA / Omelettes / Plants / Lamps / Obama Speaks, the remix…

RED ALERT RED ALERT RED ALERT, awesomeness__aaaaaahhhhhh___I just fell off my beanbag__click play NOW NOW NOW NOW:
I have found a truly amazing piece of music. Some ILLUMINATED GENIUS named Jason Tyler ripped Obama’s Grant Park (Chicago, IL) election night speech into a sizzzzzzlin’ track with influences from the Daft Punk era and the 1990’s pop [...]

February roster details [UPDATED]

[update] : I’ve managed to swap my KUL for a Colombo. Happy days ! Short flight + layover, you can’t beat it !And also DOPPLR graciously compiled an annual report on my travels for 2008 if you care to take a look. Very insightful statistics, especially the stuff about carbon dioxyde and hummers…. DOWNLOAD HERE [...]

DOWNLOADABLES #72 / Inhaling essential oils. DiscoTech Special

With nothing much to do other than sniffing essential oils and stuffing my self with medicine, I have a special lineup today for our routine DOWNLOADABLES post. Today we’re focusing on remixes with the likes of DiscoTech who has been on the North American scene for quite some time now. He rocks the decks at [...]

Airboy does Zurich, Kuala Lumpur, Beijing & ZINC video

Hey there ! I had a backlog of rushes so decided to compile 3 trips in one video + bonuses from a random night at Stink. Hope you enjoy it ! It might take a while to load. Be patient ! You can view a low quality version of the videos here

Airboy does Zurich, Kuala [...]

The American Boy takes the Pink Poodle for a walk in Munich…

I was meant to post this earlier and was overtaken by the Pink Poodle and her amazing post over at The Pink Poodle on the Runway. We only met once, when I was dropping my brother at DXB airport for him to hoover off to Brisbane for his not-so-backpacking-kind of year out (in fact he’s [...]

Trip from hell and my December roster.

Hey dudes. Back from Shanghai. Not happy at all. There are a few reasons for that. First would be the dreadful flight over and back. I will not go into details, but what I can say is that we have a Business Class specially designed to accommodate our Business Travellers… Economy is WYSIWYG foolz (if [...]

DOWNLOADABLES #66 / Me & My Sneakers

This image is just to illustrate my favourite track of the week, this is not my latest buy. I would look like a complete clown and out of proportions with sneakers like them. A sizzle on your ghettoblaster, beats your Boombox wouldn’t like to miss. Yes DJ A-track & Lupe Fiasco are at it again. [...]

ITW / Airboy sits with Skydoll !

Today’s Cabin Crew in the hot seat is a very poised young mother with ambition. She works for a major carrier in the US and apparently likes her job so much she has to write about it on her time off (just like us really!). Heather is her civilian name. Skydoll is how she calls [...]

DOWNLOADABLES #62 / All time classics.

By popular demand and because those are some of my favourite covers. I have re-upped some old Airboy Classics. Feel FREEEEEEE to download those tracks. Note that all you have to do now is click once on the links below to start the automatic download. We’ve also added a hits counter for each download so [...]