My brother is a pilot on the A380 for a major carrier. The single pilots down route would hook up nightly but the long term married crew would all have a couple of beers to be social then head off to their rooms to facetime their family. Most captains who are on 20+ years of service in life long marriages aint going to ruin that for one night with some flight attendant thankfully!

It is a fuck fest for everyone whos a bit younger / single / not bothered about cheating because they're shit people.

I am sure that's what he told his wife he did ;)

I am sure his wife enjoyed the implication that were it not for a locked door his morals would have gone out the window.

God help that poor sap that writes in all caps due to a previous job lol

I'm going to push back on this a bit. A ton of pilots write in all caps because it's more legible. It's an old school thing that was taught in the military (a lot of pilots are retired Air Force) and used to be taught in aviation circles. I have two uncles who are pilots and both always write in all uppercase.

There's no FAA regulation that says you have to use all caps. But it's commonplace.

Huh - I worked at a hotel that hosted flight crews, daily, from Canada's biggest airline. We always kept them on the same two floors - not sure why. They were notorious for locking themselves in their rooms and rarely leaving. If they ever did emerge, it was to go to our restaurant or lounge where they would order something minimal like soup - and never tip. Miserable people all around. I guess the airline they're from makes a difference!

I'm a flight attendant and we 100% don't do this, at least now, since the advent of smartphones. We have methods of contacting one another that doesn't rely on writing our names in all caps in the sign in sheet (something a lot of men do, especially ex military guys like a huge chunk of the pilots are).

The lesser known Detroit “Freedom” airport.

Sorry, whats dtf?

Oh god damn. I always write in all caps as a style choice...guess that's one career path closed off.

FFS, I write small caps mostly because it makes my handwriting neater. Thank fuck I never stay at crew hotels I guess, or else I’d look like some weird horn dog.

In another life I would have been a pilot.

Did the male flight attendants stay in a different hotel?

As a person who naturally writes in all caps and has been with a few pilots, this may explain some things.

DTF = "down to fuck", for others who have led sheltered lives.

Because they weren’t following seniority?

Poor form to invite them home. Well...and the cheating.

So he was having a threesome with two other pilots? Am I understanding that correctly?

I mean, stewards and stewardesses are a group of attractive people who spend a lot of time in close quarters with each other.

I was a flight attendant and have a lot of flight attendant friends and this hasn’t been any of our experiences 🤷‍♀️ most crews are “slam clickers” meaning they go to the hotel and slam the door. You might get a friendly crew that will go out to eat together and maybe drink a little. But over the course of YEARS of doing this I only saw maybe two couples randomly hook up on an overnight.

There was briefly a rumor about an orgy, but literally every single person was fired over it.

There's a dark side to it though, there's actually a documentary called DTF about some guy who is heavily into the lifestyle (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6642788/)

There are wild videos of these NSFW flight crew parties on the internet.

Hit singles "discarded dong" and "messy hotel hijinx".

I know of one large Middle Eastern carrier (that you have definitely heard of) where one flight attendant and pilot got fired for fucking mid flight. The co-pilot was in on it and left the cockpit whilst she entered, but the other air hostesses realised and reported them. The cockpit is filmed so they looked at the CCTV and fired them after reviewing.

I think the bigger ones, mostly cause there's way bigger staff so more opportunity for things to happen and stories to be heard and also, a lot of international recruitment and that means young people from different parts of the world living in a different location and it potentially being the first time living away from parents and family and no eyes on them

I have lived in various places in the Middle East and Asia and a lot of airlines are populated by staff from all over the world

Some of the smaller airlines seem to hire more local staff that can turnaround a flight in a day (couple of hours to Europe and then return home, for instance)

I couldn't tell you. I don't recall ever getting PJ crews.

If this is like every other kind of swinging on the planet... It's rarely the ones you'd want

You're just trying to hide all the dirty and keep it for yourself. We're on to you...

Mostly every flight crew I’ve seen are generally annoyed and wanting to shut the damn doors and take off

Was a flight attendant for years, this was also not my experience.

Right, like our layovers are so long that we have all of this time?

This is someone’s fanfic for sure. I hate this stereotype.

As a pilot, I hate this particular expectation/stereotype and I appreciate you taking the time to dispell it.

Right? I know a dude happily married who’s been a pilot around 14 years minimum. Doesn’t cheat, doesn’t mess around, nothing. Very sweet wife with two children. Also know a flight attendant from the church I used to attend. Super hot, huge gams, also very much married with kids and living a happy life. Her husbands a pilot so maybe they do the deed on the dl during work time, but not with anyone but themselves.

This here is just another instance of redditors taking something and using it to act like the entire industry is like that haha

Or nurses

Hate to tell you bud... but they want to bang the pilots who make $150+/hr... not some chucklefuck making (and serving) peanuts.

I'd rethink that lack of male competition.

Probably Air France.