Back when you wore dresses to fly.

Airline Brat

Lynne Thompson

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I grew up flying all over the place. My father was a commercial pilot and we flew for like $10. Of course we flew standby which was interesting, considering we had to get all 4 of us on a flight. And Eastern airlines had some strict rules about how employee’s relatives had to behave and dress while on the flights. We had to dress UP and be neat and clean. We couldn’t do anything which would tarnish their good name LOL. Often, we would be in first class, so we had…

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Lynne Thompson

I always wrote (first poem at 6 years old). Tech writer by trade. I have a podcast The Storied Human: see my linktree — https://linktr.ee/StoriedHuman