Find Air Babylon Executed By Imogen Edwards-Jones Rendered As Textbook

loved Hotel Babylon years ago when I picked it up so immediately ran out and bought Air Babylon and Fashion Babylon.
Found this one a bit slow in spots but the final third is filled with the most salacious stories and scenes, Will never look at airline staff the same way again, If you enjoy “behind the scenes” looks into familiar scenes or shows like Undercover Boss, this is definitely up your alley, Actually really impressed. I was a bit dubious to begin with but it really was laugh out loud funny in places, While it's obvious all of this can't happen inhours or certainly not to one person, it does get the behind the scenes look of the airline industry information out and in a fun read.
Fucking excellent I really liked the first part set in the airport wasnt fussed about the rest but overall very good, Funnily enough, I bought this at duty free in Heathrow Airport, This book is a loose collection of anecdotes of the shenanigans in the airline industry, They are told in the form of one day in the working life of an airport duty manager, Very British, very shallow, occasionally very funny especially if you have flown a few times, Brain candy. This is probably a great read during a longhaul flight with too much alcohol, Cant travel but can surely read about it, right I read Imogene Edward Jones Hotel Babylon a while back and loved it for its gossipy take on running a hotel.
Air Babylon does the same only this time, it is all about airlines, Apparently, based on real events but written in a fictional form, the events in the book occur over ahour period, The book is a laugh riot from the start and might even tell you a thing or two about what airlines and their staff think of their passengers.
It makes for a great beach read, but I enjoyed it equally being stuck at home, Next up for me is Restaurant Babylon, This book is certainly entertaining though I am dubious as to how truthful this book actually is, While I believe a majority of these stories, I doubt that they happened in ahour period and I STRONGLY doubt any flight attendant would really be stupid enough to rub someone's steak on the toilet seat before serving it to the first class passenger just because he was rude.


It was however an insight to passengers that will hopefully provide some perspective into the lives of airline employees, I would give it three solid, A bit trashy but highly entertaining, Recommended if you are looking for a light read, Although some parts felt a bit forced, overall it was good, Labai dažnai, kai mums atrodo, jog tai per gerai, kad būtų tiesa, ir būna per gerai, kad būtų tiesa.
“ Highly entertaining look at the airline industry,

Imogen EdwardsJones took stories of real events told to her by airline workers and wove them into a novel coveringhours at a fictious airline.


Hilarious and horrifying in equal measures,

If you are a traveler you need to read this, Hilarious!!! All people who travel by air should read this!!! The entire Babylon series is great! As with all the books under the "Babylon Genre", Air Babylon is no exception.

It is witty, and very well researched, I was both highly entertained and shocked at the facts that the book pointed out, One of my favorite parts, was about the window shutters on the aircraft and why they are to be kept open during the landing and takeoff procedures.
I found this book hilarious,

The way it is written is interesting, as it has the fiction essentials: main characters and an interesting plot, However, all of the incidents and characters are supposedly true albeit a bit squashed intohours,

This book made me want to be nice to every person working in an airport, If they can really get that nasty then I don't want to cross them, I was also tempted to become terrified of flying, but figure that it's out of my hands anyway so may as well not freak myself out.


If you care to know what really goes on in the cockpit and behindthescenes at airports, then read this book.
Don't bother though if you don't have a sense of humour, and think that air stewards are braindead waiters in the sky who don't deserve some respect.
An entertaining read for a plane nerd, Everything that can happen on a plane and airports gets woven into ah journey, a day of a ground airport staff.


This would getbut the comments about assistance and wheelchairs were rather rude, so one star taken away for that.
Hey, Fictional Male Airport Groundperson, you do realize that anyone who asks for any disability assistance just gets the bloody whechair, dont you Traveling with guide dog wheelchair.
Deaf wheelchair. Elderly person who doesnt know english and finds it difficult to navigate thru airports alone Wheelchair,
Thats also just being generous because Im more tempted to remove two for just attitudinal problem and rudeness for what comes to passengers with any disability.
Ik had liever,gegeven omdat de hoofdpersoon me niet zo aanstond en ik het allemaal net teveel aangedikt vond, maar ach: gewoon een prima boek dus gewoon een prima score This is so trashy, but SO GOOD.
It's like an episode of Airline that gets so raunchy they have to show it atpm on like,Star or something.
Obviously it's exaggerated massively and there's no way that all this could actually happen to one person/crew in ahour period but that's the FUN in it! This was a very random pick from the bookstore, as the title grabbed my attention, being a traveller myself.


Part of the Babylon series by the author, it's an expose on what goes on in the travel industry, and claims to be based on true incidents from London Heathrow Airport, narrated by the airport duty manager.


I found it super light to read, funny, and naughty too, . . obviously things do happen between the crew, . and how they are described in the book are hilarious! And then there are the priceless tips that you get as a traveller are pretty cool!

Recommended if you like to fly, travel, and get on a plane.
Tikros istorijos, tikri veikėjai, tik išgalvotos oro linijos, Įdomu ir šiek tiek šiurpu, kas vyksta visai nieko neįtariant ir ramiai sėdint lėktuvo kėdėje,
Knyga netenka dalies žavesio dėl prasto vertimo ir laikmečio, nes leistam, tad kai kurie faktai atgyvenę, o nuostatai/taisyklės pasikeitusios, Derivative and near pointless. Has none of the punch of its older sibling,
I loved this book, Having been one of those “hosties” with a major international airline for years, I identified with so many of the stories, . . which by the way have some truth in them even though some might be termed exaggerated, but hey it makes for much more interesting reading,
An hilarious ride .

The story, told thru the eyes of an airport duty manager, which happens in a span ofhours shows us all the dramas that go on in an international airport.
. . from the baggage handlers, checkin agents, flight attendants and more, Its an hilarious ride . . you now have discovered all the secrets of all those people who you dont give a toss for and take for granted.
. and how they go about getting their revenge on those so called hideous pax!!!!!!!

Yes, flight crew, . . cockpit and cabin do get up to mischief, . . though the days of fun times during long layovers are a thing of the past, Now you fly to your destination and if you are lucky, have a day there and then fly right back home, no time given for partying, . . well how much can one cram into a nightstop I ask

Travellers are given a few tips on how to.
. in a fun way . . get yourself upgraded . now thats very hard but one can still try I suppose, . . those drunken pax . they happen believe me!!!!!! And sex in the sky, . . its not a myth it happened on one of my flights!!!!

I absolutely loved the scenes with the crew in the Dubai hotel, I couldnt stop laughing in fact I laughed through most of reading this book, A real buzz.

And finally it did bring back the most amazing memories I have of my flying life, . you know its really true, . we flight attendants are really “Jetsetters on the cheap!!!!”, . . and oh yes buy the book, have a laugh and try not to take it tooooo seriously, just have fun as u turn the pages!!!!!!!
I read 'Air Babylon' during a recent trip to NY, enduring a number of BA cabin crew telling me it was all pure fiction.
It is a very interesting concept in revealing the trade secrets of a chosen industry and a difficult one to pull off my only criticism is that the 'do you remember the time that.
. . " anecdotes come a bit too thick and fast towards the end of the book and do not flow into the day's diary of events as smoothly as the earlier chapters set in the Airport.
There is some real food for thought here speaking of which, you may never eat an airline meal again after reading this.
In summary 'Air Babylon' will really get you thinking about very aspect of the flying experience next time you pass through a UK Airport, which may not be a good thing for the more nervous flyers out there.
Mildly entertaining. Finished this in no time! Really funny, and gives you great insights in the life of the duty manager of an airline.
You'll never fly with the same easy feeling

again after reading this book, Fascinating and entertaining, jaw dropping stories, At the same time, I felt the course language was unnecessary to the telling of the escapades on a fictional airlines though all the stories purport to be true Historie, w które trudno uwierzyć jeśli tak naprawdę wygląda przemysł lotniczy to aż strach latać.
A jeśli już musimy i chcemy to warto być miłym i uprzejmym, może nie narazimy się załodze
Książkę czytało się szybko i lekko, polecam : Hard to know what's real vs fictional.
Story is mental. I bought this book for cheap on Amazon after learning about the author from "Hotel Babylon", a guiltypleasure BBC series about what goes on in a luxury London hotel, based on her book of the same name.
The author has made a career out of books about the inner workings of certain industries, so this one delves into what it's like working for an airline, supposedly based on real interviews with anonymous airline staffers.
It's a fun beach read if you happen to find it, and there are a few laugh out loud bits, My favorite: the story of a clueless, spoiled mother on an airplane who hands her baby to a flight attendant, saying "she needs changing".
The flight attendant walks down the aisle, returns with a black baby, and asks the mother if the baby is changed enough for her.
Who doesn't love little stories of comeuppance like that Airline staff have to deal with people at their absolute worst, so as you can imagine, this book is full of similar tales.
Heard the one about the airline that has introduced 'corpse cupboards' on new planes to cope with the number of people who die in the air Heard the story about the First Class air hostess who got fired for sitting on the face of a passenger during a long haul flight Heard about the amount of knickers and false teeth that are left behind in the body of the plane Heard how pissedoff stewards put laxatives in your drinks Heard about the pilot who ran out of runway Heard of the disabled passengers who miraculously walk again

No Then you haven't read Air Babylon.


Do you know the best place to have sex on a plane Do you know how to dress for an upgrade Do you know that one drink in the air equals three on the ground Do you know who is checking you in Who is checking you out Do you know exactly what happens to your luggage once it leaves your sight Is it secure Are you safe Do you really know anything about the business that you entrust your life to several times a year

Air Babylon is a trawl through the highs, the lows, and the rapid descents of the travel industry.
It catalogues the births, the deaths, the drunken brawls, the sexual antics, and the debauchery behind the scenes of the ultimate service industry where the world is divided into those who wear the uniform and those who don't.