Flight attendant reveals how often passengers hook up mid-flight — and what happens if they’re caught

Then, of course, there’s the cabin crew, professionals who’ve seen it all and have long since stopped finding it funny or sexy.

Mandy Smith, a flight attendant and author of Cabin Fever: The Sizzling Secrets of a Virgin Air Hostess, now reveals how often passengers try their luck based on what she’s seen, and what happens when they’re inevitably caught.

Despite the trope being widespread, Mandy says it happens far less often than you might imagine. A detail that’s consistent with the survey mentioned earlier.

“I would say one in twenty or thirty flights,” she admitted during an interview with Ladbible.

“Not really that often.”

So how do the staff handle it?

Usually, a simple knock on the bathroom door is enough.

“It’s worse when you’ve got children on board and it’s in the daytime,” she said.

On night flights, however, Mandy confessed she sometimes takes a more lenient approach: “If it’s on a night flight and they’re being discreet, I probably wouldn’t even interrupt them if I’m honest.”

Awkward story

Still, not all passengers are so easily deterred. Mandy shared a particularly awkward story about a determined young traveler:

“One of my friends had a situation where there was a young lady of 18 who was quite determined to join the mile-high club, and she just grabbed anyone,” she said.Continue reading…