{"id":407894,"date":"2026-04-18T03:00:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T17:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/fa-happens-12-hour-long-haul-flight\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T03:00:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T17:00:17","slug":"im-a-flight-attendant-this-is-what-happens-during-a-12-hour-long-haul-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=407894","title":{"rendered":"I\u2019m A Flight Attendant: This Is What Happens During A 12-Hour Long-Haul Flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Passengers often wonder what cabin crew do on long-haul flights, as they really only see the crew during boarding and disembarkation, and during the meal and bar service. Long-haul flights are commonly overnight, and somewhat unnaturally, we work throughout the night while the passengers are sleeping. <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"256847\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/cabin-crew\/\"  >Cabin crew<\/a><\/span> need to stay alert in case of any emergency situation that might crop up, that they need to deal with quickly and effectively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although the passengers are sleeping, the flight attendants stay busy.<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-407894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-cabin-crew","category-flight-attendant"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407894","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=407894"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":407896,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407894\/revisions\/407896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=407894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=407894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=407894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}