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My hair on straight?

“Flying frequently ~ for a living!” ~ Based in beautiful San Francisco, Martha is a well seasoned Flight Attendant for a major US airline. Although friendly service is an important job requirement, Martha works tirelessly maintaining a safe, stable, and secure environment while hosting hundreds of somewhat unstable, often insecure, and not-always-friendly passengers stuffed inside a metal tube hurling through space at over 500 mph. Seems like a crazy life huh? It is. It’s Martha’s life, and she’s living it crazy.

This is Martha’s fifth airline. For her, being a Flight Attendant is not so much a career as it is an addiction. How does she do it?  “Like I put on my pantyhose, one leg at a time”.

Chip says ~ “What do I love most about Martha? Her schedule and that she’s away a lot. Hey, I’m no dummy!”

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Whoa! No open flames.

Chip “a wood man is hard to find” ~ Chip is Martha’s other half. Well, other quarter really. These two lovebirds have been going at it for several months now. You may be wondering how they met? With Martha’s hectic travel schedule, and Chip playing a Vegas gig at the time, the chances of meeting were less than zero. Tired of one night stands, losers, and bimbos, they turned to a well-known dating service. With the click of mice, they met, fell in love, and the rest is history.

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What Martha says about Chip ~ “For me, it’s a wood thing”

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Who’s at the controls of Marthastewardess.com?

John Safkow is the creator of Martha Stewardess and her sidekick, “Chip”.

John is a former San Francisco based flight attendant for a major airline. He’s worked for a total five airlines, starting his airline career in 1980 with Air Miami, a small feeder airline for Air Florida.

“I worked as an agent at the tiny airport in Naples, Fla. Our terminal was a one bedroom mobile home. Air Miami passengers would first enter into the living room for ‘check-in’ and boarding passes. Once bags were checked in, passengers would receive a required security screening (by me using a hand-held wand) before entering our secured area ‘waiting’ room, which in reality was the bedroom.

21 passenger, Casa-212

A few minutes before departure, passengers would exit the back door of our terminal-trailer to board one of our three aircrafts, a nine passenger Cessna, 21 passenger Casa-212, or our 32 passenger DC-3 (pic shows PBA. Yep, worked for them too!).”

PBA DC-3

PEOPLExpress 747

Leisure Air DC-10 "We'll get you there, at our leisure"

After Air Miami, John worked for Provincetown Boston Airlines, another regional carrier. In 1982 John was hired on with the great late PeoplExpress. He left PEX in 1986 and found himself a bit off course and employed as an earthling working the bay with a San Francisco ferry-boat service. A few years later John moved on to hotel sales. In late 1994, he joined a charter company, Leisure Air as Base Manager at SFO International Airport in San Francisco.

Five months later Leisure Air was out of money and permanently grounded. Following ‘Leisure’, John enjoyed his leisure time completely absorbed with the OJ Simpson trial. Unfortunately, absorbing Court TV will not put food on the table or pay the rent.

In spring of 1995, John joined United Airlines flying ‘friendly’ until February 2011. On this date John removed his wings in exchange for a once in a lifetime opportunity as Gorilla Caregiver for ‘Koko’ and ‘Ndume’ at The Gorilla Foundation in Woodside, CA., www.koko.org

From Flight Attendant to Gorilla Caregiver. “You’d be surprised at the similarities with these career choices. As both Flight Attendant and Gorilla Caregiver, I’m locked inside a confined area with primates. Both gorillas and passengers are difficult, however gorillas never complain, whine, or act like passengers. They only scream and throw their poop at you.”

While John tends to the gorillas, Martha and Chip will continue serving you at your cursing cruising altitude of 34,000 feet.

Click links for published articles mentioning John and/or Martha:

Christian Science Monitor – “Flight Attendants job; Harder Than it Used to be?”

Fare Compare.com – “When a 300 Pound Gorilla is a Flight Attendant Stress Antidote”

ABCNews.com/Travel – “No Steven Slater Here. Flight Attendant Tricks to Fighting Stress”

Readers Digest- “13 Things Your Flight Attendant Won’t Tell You”

USA Today – “Seatmates Spar Over Middle Armrest”

Workstew Podcast – “Flight Attendant Turned Gorilla Caretaker” 

The Gorilla Foundation- “Magical”

The Gorilla Foundation www.Koko.org

Contact John Safkow at johnnysafkow@att.net

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