Many a mistake can be forgiven, but an ex-stewardess has revealed one action on a plane that is so ‘ridiculous’ and ‘crazy’ it could result in a lifetime ban from flying.
Skye Taylor, 49, from Southampton, spent 17 years working as a stewardess, beginning at 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 on the behaviour by other cabin crew influencers that have left her ‘horrified’.
Skye told MailOnline: ‘I was watching one TikTok the other day, and I was absolutely horrified.
‘An influencer stepped over the markings [on the runway], the safety area, and everyone was like “oh wow, that’s incredible”.
‘But she was right near the engine, it was ridiculous.’
The former flight attendant was however left even more aghast by another influencer.
She said: ‘I’ve seen quite a lot of other things that makes me think, “Oh my God!”
Skye Taylor, 49, from Southampton, spent 17 years working as a stewardess, beginning at 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 on the behaviour by other cabin crew influencers that have 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.
‘Because it has been known that messages have been 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 could happen to you or you could put that aircraft in danger, 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 serious consequences.
‘Doing that to get views, that’s ridiculous,’ she continued.
‘It’s crazy, plus you’ll probably get a lifetime ban from flying as well.
‘We have to report that straight away and it doesn’t matter [what the message says] because they’ll [police] decode things differently to us.
Skye believes that some influencers have become more brash 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 members potentially putting the plane at risk with their actions: ‘I think sense goes 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 clear 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.
