HUMOUR

Who Would Have Gassed?

The stinky side of being a flight attendant

Barbara Borzi
4 min readSep 24, 2021

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When I first became a flight attendant — cough, 24 years ago — nobody ever warned me about the amount of flatulence I’d be engulfed in on a regular basis. Even though trapped gas is such a common ailment associated with flying, this frequent farting phenomenon, known as HAFE — high-altitude flatus expulsion, — is…

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Barbara Borzi

Author of LIVING THE SKY LIFE, flight attendant, runner, lover of dogs, nature, reading, and travelling