Cabin crew secrets: code names flight attendants use for passengers

Cabin crew work as a team as they care for the passengers on board. Sometimes they might wish to communicate with each other without the travellers clocking on to what they're saying.

It's at times like this that using a form of code can come in highly useful. Beddall explained that they would use the code name "Bob." This has nothing to do with the name

Bob at all and, if you hear it about yourself, you should be flattered. The acronym stands for 'Best on board." Another game between flight attendants is the "cheerio

game." DON'T MISS A crew member revealed the flight secret on UK cabin crew forum cabincrew.com. "There's the cheerio game you can play when passengers disembark,” the

flight attendant wrote on the website. "When you're standing there going ‘Buh-bye, thank you, take care' etc when you see someone you fancy, you say 'cheerio.’” "You

need to do it with a buddy and the challenge is to keep a straight face." Meanwhile, flight attendant Emily Witkop revealed that one code word was related to a popular beverage when it

came to liking a flier. She told the New York Post the term “hot coffee” means cabin crew fancy you. “I recall for a few years there was a ‘hot coffee’ code among flight attendants,” she

said. “You would say, ‘I’ve got hot coffee in 3B!’ Which meant there was an extremely attractive passenger in that particular seat who the other flight attendants should check out.” However,

cabin crew also employ code names for the passengers they don't like. One such code word, according to Beddall is "Lactose intolerant Vegan." This translates to "pain in

the neck." So, be sure to listen out for any intriguing code names you hear next time you fly. Comment below if you have any other cabin crew code words you know of.