October 14th - Inside the world of British Airways cabin crew
Simon Calder's Independent Travel Podcast
The Independent
3.6 • 628 Ratings
🗓️ 14 October 2025
⏱️ 8 minutes
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My colleague, senior travel writer Natalie Wilson, has been telling me more about the making of a film about training to be cabin crew.
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| 1:10.3 | simon cordar it's t Tuesday the 14th of October. |
| 1:13.6 | If you are kind enough to be a loyal listener to the podcast, you will recall that on one at travel desk Tuesday, |
| 1:21.2 | I talked to my excellent colleague, senior travel writer, Natalie Wilson, about training to be a member of cabin crew for British Airways. |
| 1:30.4 | Well, not entirely the six-week intensive course, but enough to get a sense of it. |
| 1:36.4 | And you may have seen that it's become something of an internet sensation. |
| 1:41.0 | So, congratulations, Natalie. |
| 1:43.5 | Thank you. What I'm interested in many things and we'll |
| 1:47.0 | be hearing clips from the video here, but it was quite a powerful experience. Not sure I'd |
| 1:54.4 | call it an internet sensation, but it was definitely very eye-opening to see the behind the scenes |
| 2:00.4 | of what Cabin Crew have to think about during a flight. |
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