Many mistakes can be forgiven, but an ex-flight attendant has revealed one action on a plane is so ‘ridiculous’ and ‘crazy’ it could result in a lifetime ban from flying.
Skye Taylor, 49, from Southampton, worked as a flight attendant for 17 years, starting with low cost airlines and working her way up to a job at Virgin Atlantic.
She hung up her flying boots just over a year ago and is now spilling the beans about the behavior other cabin crew influencers who left her ‘horrified’.
Skye told MailOnline: “I watched one TikTok the other day, and I was absolutely horrified.
“An influencer stepped over the markings (on the runway), the security area, and everyone was like “oh wow, that’s amazing”.
“But she was right near the engine, it was ridiculous.”
However, the former flight attendant was let down even more by another influencer.
She said: ‘I’ve seen quite a lot of other things that make me think, “Oh my God!”
Skye Taylor, 49, from Southampton, worked as a flight attendant for 17 years, starting with low-cost airlines and working her way up to a job with Virgin Atlantic
She hung up her flying boots just over a year ago and is now spilling the beans about the behavior by other cabin crew influencers that left her ‘horrified’
‘In another video, an influencer was like writing on the mirror or something in the bathroom – and I was just like that could end up as a massive security risk.
‘Cause it was known that messages were left for, you know (dangerous people) and I think a lot of the time people, I don’t want to say it because I’m old, but it’s like a younger generation thing.
‘I think sense goes out the window.
“It’s safety at the end of the day, something can happen to you or you can put that plane at risk, and I’ve seen it a lot.”
Skye believes that some influencers have become more brash and daring just to get others to watch their videos without thinking of the dire consequences.
“Doing it to get views, that’s ridiculous,” she continued.
‘That’s crazy, and you’ll probably get banned from flying for life too.
“We have to report it immediately and it doesn’t matter (what the message says) because they (the police) will decode things differently than us.
Skye believes that some influencers have become more bold and daring just to get others to watch their videos without thinking of the serious consequences.
Skye, pictured in her uniform, says of younger cabin crew who may be putting the plane at risk with their actions: ‘I think sense is going out the window’
“The police or the aviation authority will look at things differently to say, the normal person.”
In February this year, a United Airlines flight was forced to land in Chicago after someone wrote a bomb threat on a mirror in one of the plane’s lavatories.
The plane was later found to be free of any threat.
Want to hear more from Skye? She posts on TikTok under the username @slkye_taylor_xx and Instagram at @skye_taylor_xx.
