I haven’t posted on here for a couple of days as I’ve been in Edinburgh where I’ve been shadowing a crew for two days. A friend who is a purser set this up for me so that I could get some experience of what it’s liking working at an airline before I actually do next year.

We were due to start our shift yesterday at 7AM but just before we were due to push back the captain I was flying with (won’t mention his name for obvious reasons) realised our insurance documents were out of date by 7 hours. He called the base which faxed through another document and we were on our way within 40 minutes. However when we arrived at our hotel for our night stop last night we met a Glasgow crew who had not been given the documents but hadn’t realised the error and only noticed when they finished their shift.

All of the guys and girls were saying it had been there worst day in a very long time, was a great insight to be a part of it though!