{"id":400258,"date":"2026-04-06T07:30:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T21:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/real-reason-flight-attendants-say-hello-board-plane\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T07:30:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T21:30:18","slug":"the-real-reason-why-flight-attendants-say-hello-when-you-board-a-plane-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=400258","title":{"rendered":"The Real Reason Why Flight Attendants Say \u201cHello\u201d When You Board A Plane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When a passenger boards the plane, they will almost always be greeted by smiling<span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"88157\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/flight-attendants\/\"  >flight attendants<\/a><\/span> at the door. They will check your ticket, direct you to your seat, and once in the cabin, even assist with finding space for your bags. However, this is not just being polite and good customer service; there is much more to those few seconds than one might think.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They are not just being polite but quietly observing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,476,496,675,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-400258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-cabin-crew","category-flight-attendant","category-safety"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=400258"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":400259,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400258\/revisions\/400259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=400258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=400258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=400258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}