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🌱NEW ON FLIGHTESS🌱 Taking advantage of Fig Season and making canapés that really don’t need a recipe (but if you do need one it is on Flightess.com) Quartered Figs• Honey Comb (or drizzled honey)• Basil • Goat Cheese, on a mini toast Pro-tip: Attempt to find canapés that don’t require heating equipment as normally during that sector of inflight dining your microwave and/or oven will need to be used for hot starters and main courses. I love this canapé because it’s easy to assemble quickly yet retains impactful taste 👩🏽‍🍳 Try it out and let me know what you think!!

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Artistic Plating should be 60% negative space, 40% food. Choose a corner of your plate and make it abstract ✨👍🏼 I’ll always buy extra greens to keep in my fridge bag for flights, why? You can turn your cheese platter into a salad real fast or bulk up an existing salad into multiple portions. Goat Cheese, Walnuts and a plane made whipped honey vinaigrette for an unexpected second meal service 💯

Sep 6

I’ve been using this quote a lot lately- thought it may bring you all some inspiration too ❤️ For example; a plating rule is to never plate anything on the “rim of the plate” as an artist doesn’t paint the frame right? However, knowing this and executing properly, sometimes garnish expertly and intentionally on the rim of the dish can be so artistic and beautiful. What’s a rule you successfully “break” like an artist? Mine is never to use napkin rolls with utensils inside, EXCEPT on short flights with lots of guests onboard 🙊🤪 your turn: GO

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✨✨Luxury begets luxury ✨✨ Here’s another one of my top tips- do your own research & development at the leading bench-markers of the luxury hotel industry. Go for lunch. Go for tea. Go for a cocktail. Go for a coffee. Study their menus, service style, verbal communication, take in every observation you can whilst there. Not all private jet guests have the same taste of luxury but being keen and privy to the luxury sector will make a difference in the understanding and expectations some guests may have, which ultimately will translate into an even better experience for your guest. Some of the “best” ideas I’ve had that have resonated with my inflight guests have come from my own research and development of treating myself to a meal or afternoon tea in the finest hotel establishments around the world. [My favorite bar? 8 Ball Bar at the Mandarin Oriental in Paris] Would love to hear any experiences that have profoundly resonated with you and seaped into the way you conduct and provide service inflight ✨

Sep 1

I always say that everything about the performance of an Inflight Experience, served by a Private Jet Flight Attendant, is about time and motion. •How much time does it take you to complete a given task? •How much motion does it take you to complete a given task? What I mean by this is if a client asks for a simple diet coke with a lemon wedge, but your diet cokes are buried three bins deep in your galley drawer and you didn’t prepare pre-cut lemon/lime wedges before your guests arrived, you are now not only creating a tremendous amount of motion (digging through bins and quickly slicing up a lemon), but you are also using more time than usual to complete a simple guest request. The truth is, a client doesn’t want to sit and wait longer than they originally anticipated for anything, which normally translates to a graceful, but very expeditious expectation. And you want to know what is the most nerve-inducing, ceremoniously ungraceful, time-staking, task that any Flight Attendant has to do in front of a client? Making a bed. Link in bio to continue reading—> Making a Bed Inflight on a Private Jet.. [BESPOKE HERMES FABRICS FOR THE DUVET COVERS, THROW PILLOWS AND BED SCARF @primadonnalux ]

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#FlightessMadeMeDoIt

Sep 17

It’s no secret that the flight attendant industry is predominately female. Alongside nurses, its one occupation that is historically synonymous with “women”. But what about the men that are breaking into these female-dominated industries? Does the proverbial glass ceiling women have been battling to shatter in every other profession get a gender reversal in the world of Business Aviation Flight Attendants? I tapped the shoulder of one of my dear friends and industry colleagues Joseph Musso to share his own experience and truth with being a male Corporate Flight Attendant in this exciting industry. Link in bio to continue reading my interview with @jmewso

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🌱NEW ON FLIGHTESS🌱 Taking advantage of Fig Season and making canapés that really don’t need a recipe (but if you do need one it is on Flightess.com) Quartered Figs• Honey Comb (or drizzled honey)• Basil • Goat Cheese, on a mini toast Pro-tip: Attempt to find canapés that don’t require heating equipment as normally during that sector of inflight dining your microwave and/or oven will need to be used for hot starters and main courses. I love this canapé because it’s easy to assemble quickly yet retains impactful taste 👩🏽‍🍳 Try it out and let me know what you think!!

Sep 13

✨✨TUMI GIVEAWAY ✨✨ To enter to win this Tumi Tote Giveaway (the perfect CFA Inflight Tote) simply: •Like this post•Subscribe to the Flightess YouTube Channel (link in bio!) !! THAT’S IT !! Giveaway closes one week from today and a winner will be randomly selected! INTERNATIONAL & US DOMESTIC CAN ENTER TO WIN...[This giveaway is not sponsored or affiliated with Tumi]

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Sep 10

‼️NEW YOUTUBE VIDEO🎥 What galley tools do I actually bring with me when contracting??👩🏽‍🍳🛩 Link in bio to watch! All items are linked in YouTube caption GALLEY ARSENAL: (N) term used to describe a corporate flight attendant’s inflight Mary Poppins bag 👜

Sep 8

Artistic Plating should be 60% negative space, 40% food. Choose a corner of your plate and make it abstract ✨👍🏼 I’ll always buy extra greens to keep in my fridge bag for flights, why? You can turn your cheese platter into a salad real fast or bulk up an existing salad into multiple portions. Goat Cheese, Walnuts and a plane made whipped honey vinaigrette for an unexpected second meal service 💯

Sep 6

I’ve been using this quote a lot lately- thought it may bring you all some inspiration too ❤️ For example; a plating rule is to never plate anything on the “rim of the plate” as an artist doesn’t paint the frame right? However, knowing this and executing properly, sometimes garnish expertly and intentionally on the rim of the dish can be so artistic and beautiful. What’s a rule you successfully “break” like an artist? Mine is never to use napkin rolls with utensils inside, EXCEPT on short flights with lots of guests onboard 🙊🤪 your turn: GO

Sep 3

✨✨Luxury begets luxury ✨✨ Here’s another one of my top tips- do your own research & development at the leading bench-markers of the luxury hotel industry. Go for lunch. Go for tea. Go for a cocktail. Go for a coffee. Study their menus, service style, verbal communication, take in every observation you can whilst there. Not all private jet guests have the same taste of luxury but being keen and privy to the luxury sector will make a difference in the understanding and expectations some guests may have, which ultimately will translate into an even better experience for your guest. Some of the “best” ideas I’ve had that have resonated with my inflight guests have come from my own research and development of treating myself to a meal or afternoon tea in the finest hotel establishments around the world. [My favorite bar? 8 Ball Bar at the Mandarin Oriental in Paris] Would love to hear any experiences that have profoundly resonated with you and seaped into the way you conduct and provide service inflight ✨

Sep 1

I always say that everything about the performance of an Inflight Experience, served by a Private Jet Flight Attendant, is about time and motion. •How much time does it take you to complete a given task? •How much motion does it take you to complete a given task? What I mean by this is if a client asks for a simple diet coke with a lemon wedge, but your diet cokes are buried three bins deep in your galley drawer and you didn’t prepare pre-cut lemon/lime wedges before your guests arrived, you are now not only creating a tremendous amount of motion (digging through bins and quickly slicing up a lemon), but you are also using more time than usual to complete a simple guest request. The truth is, a client doesn’t want to sit and wait longer than they originally anticipated for anything, which normally translates to a graceful, but very expeditious expectation. And you want to know what is the most nerve-inducing, ceremoniously ungraceful, time-staking, task that any Flight Attendant has to do in front of a client? Making a bed. Link in bio to continue reading—> Making a Bed Inflight on a Private Jet.. [BESPOKE HERMES FABRICS FOR THE DUVET COVERS, THROW PILLOWS AND BED SCARF @primadonnalux ]

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