Ones attitude to the book is likely going to depend on the expectations - if you were hoping for a first hand expose of the industry, Barbara Ehrenreich style, disappointment is sure to follow. If you see it more as 'entertainment', with an airline twist to it and some factual information thrown in with some dubious urban legends, it may very well work.
The book supposedly follows a 24 hour cycle of a fictional airline duty manager at Heathrow, including all the ground duties he would have to perform during a typical day followed by a flight to Dubai to get the air aspects covered. As the author claims to have collected the various stories from many anonymous contributors, the day is certainly spiced up for the readers, offering as many incidents as possible, from escaped snakes, illegal immigrants, nasty food 'seasoning' by put out staff, dead passengers, aircraft malfunctions to the 'cannot be missed' sex on the plane.
As mentioned by other reviewers, several aspects are more a thing of the past and used primarily to make it a more shocking and thereby engaging read. There are also factual errors, which with some more dilligent research simply should not have happened.
Still, parts of it read well, several aspects are not too far from the truth and the basics - i.e. treat the airline staff in a normal corteous manner and you are unlikely to be 'punished' in turn - are essentially right.
While not so obviously an advertorial for the airline industry like for instance
You F'Coffee Sir?!!! (The Real Air Hostesses' Handbook)
, it may well attract some young, 'fun loving' people to the sector (it may also turn some of them off, though).
For me it read better overall than
You F'Coffee Sir?!!! (The Real Air Hostesses' Handbook)
, even if factually it strayed a lot further from the usual standard found on airlines nowadays. In the end, I would rather recommend it as lightly fictional holiday entertainment than as your in-depth guide to what really goes on behind closed doors in the airline sector.
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