HUMOUR
Who Would Have Gassed?
The stinky side of being a flight attendant
4 min readSep 24, 2021
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…