Flight attendants told HuffPost that the “customer is always right” attitude mandated by much of the service industry often prevents many flight attendants from confronting in-flight harassment themselves, Henderson said. Dawn Arthur also became disillusioned during eight years working as a flight attendant in both the commercial and private sector. “On the balcony, he started asking me really inappropriate questions: do I touch myself privately, do I masturbate, things like that.”Mandalena Lewis Lewis outside of a Vancouver court during the strike hearing. “One, it’s a confined space, where flight attendants are charged with de-escalating conflict every single day,” she said. Flight attendants who worked in the ’60s and ’70s might argue the notion that it is worse, now, though.

Source: Huffington Post November 22, 2017 18:54 UTC