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Female pilot reveals airport employee mistook her for flight attendant: ‘I’m offended for you
A pilot shared her story of being mistaken for a flight attendant by an airport worker
A pilot shared her story of being mistaken for a flight attendant by an airport worker. Last week, Sabrina, @sabrinaleej, posted a video to her TikTok account in which she could be seen inside a plane’s cockpit while wearing her uniform. She then turned to face the camera, a confused expression on her face, and began to describe the error that the airport employee had made.
In the text that appeared over the video, Sabrina wrote, “Gate agent looked me in the eye today and asked if I was the flight attendant.” She further explained her thoughts about the incident in the caption of the post, writing: “It’s jarring to me because they work at an airport. You know what the pilot uniforms are.
More than 1.5 million people have watched the video as of November 2; in the comments, TikTok users make fun of Sabrina for not responding to the gate agent’s remark.
Ask them if they’re new and let them know you’ll show them how to tell the uniforms apart so they won’t make a fool of themselves once more, one person suggested. Another viewer commented, “That’s when you say: ‘Yeah I’m but I thought I’d try flying the plane today too.’
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In a subsequent video, Sabrina acknowledged that while she adores flight attendants, she is not the only pilot to have experienced this. She added that the problem she wanted to address was more complex than just being called a flight attendant.
The text she added to her video read, “Being called a flight attendant is not an insult.” After all my hard work, it’s an insult when someone uses it to try to diminish me. You are disrespecting the flight attendants and myself by doing that.
