Yours Inflight, West Palm Beach, FL (2026)

10/10/2026

If your résumé says Corporate Flight Attendant, your LinkedIn reflects your former career having nothing to do with aviation, and your location actually says “United States” instead of where you actually are . . .

How are operators supposed to take you seriously?

Your résumé and LinkedIn are often reviewed at the same time.

They need to match and be unequivocally cohesive.

They must tell the same professional story.

Start with your headline.

Keep it simple, specific, and easy to understand.

Use the “|” symbol to separate phrases.

No emojis.

Ask yourself:

What do I want someone to INSTANTLY know about me?

Then check your location.

Is it accurate and LOCAL? (not “United States” 😏)

Can someone tell whether you are local for an opportunity or in-person connection?

Next . . .

Make sure people can CONNECT with you.

Following does not automatically create access to your DMs.

Read their profile.

Find something genuine to connect over.

Then write your own professional message.

Your profile should also include:

Your website beneath your headline through a business account.

An About section written from the recruiter’s point of view.

Experience that matches your résumé.

Your safety training, education, and certifications.

Skills specific to private aviation.

Featured licenses, projects, courses, and recommendations.

And endorsements from people who can genuinely speak to your abilities.

Then look at your activity.

Posts.

Comments.

Videos.

Events.

It is ALL visible.

How recently are you active?

What are you saying on other people’s posts?

A completed profile is sooo important, you guys.

How you behave once it is completed matters too.

LinkedIn is not simply where you store your employment history.

It is where you become recognizable, build relationships, support others, and allow the industry to understand who you are over time.

Continued below. 👇🏼

10/09/2026

I set six alarms for 1:00 AM with my mom as the backup plan. 😂

Three alarms on my phone.

Three more on my iPad.

Each one with a nine-minute snooze.

1:01.

1:14.

1:28.

And because apparently I believe in aggressive self-love when I wake up, each one came with its own affirmation:

😘😘😘I LOVE YOU😘😘😘

❤️❤️❤️YOU ARE LOVED❤️❤️❤️

🚨You Are Gorgeous!🚨

My mom even asked if I wanted her to set an alarm so she could call me too.

And not one of them was necessary.

I was already awake when the first alarm went off. 😵‍💫

There is something about knowing you have to wake up at 1:00 AM that makes actually sleeping feel almost impossible.

I had gone to bed around 9.

Bags packed.

Dogs taken care of.

Lights out.

And then proceeded to wake up approximately every 30 minutes wondering if it was time yet. 😭

By 1:00 AM, I had technically been in bed for four hours . . . but I would not exactly call what happened “rest.”

Either way, it was time to go.

I decided makeup could wait until the ferry flight. 💄

So I put on my uniform, did my heavy-duty skin care and of course my self-tanner, left my very bare face exactly as it was, grabbed my bags and walked out the door a little after 2:00 AM.

One unexpected perk?

I-95 in South Florida at 2:00 AM is EMPTY.

Almost unsettlingly empty.

I am so accustomed to calculating traffic into everything that driving straight down the highway at the actual speed limit felt suspicious. 🤣

Meanwhile, my phone was already starting to ding.

Good mornings coming in from people in Singapore, Australia, Europe . . .

The pilots were Asia-based, so their bodies were still operating on Asia time.

They met me in the lobby and immediately asked if I wanted coffee. ☕️

Apparently I looked like I needed some. 🫪

A few minutes later, we were walking out toward the aircraft in the dark.

Brand-new international crew for Nat.

Brand-new international operation for Nat.

And a very long day ahead of us.

Somewhere between Fort Lauderdale and Venezuela, makeup finally got its turn. 💄😂

Six alarms and one mom on standby . . . and I never needed a single one.

10/09/2026

By Step 5, you have created your résumé, introduction letter, brand kit, and portfolio.

Now . . .

Where does everything live?

If the answer is scattered between Canva, Google Drive, Dropbox, a PDF, LinkedIn, Digital Business Card, and your camera roll . . . 😮‍💨

We have a problem. 😅

Your website brings your professional presence together in ONE place.

ONE link.

ONE clear picture of who you are and what you can bring onboard.

Your website can show:

Who you are.

Where you are based.

Your aviation and transferable experience.

Your safety and service training.

The type of flying opportunities you are pursuing.

Your résumé.

Your portfolio.

Your professional contact information.

And the actual human being behind all of it.

Why not also add a personal introduction video?

30-60 seconds tops is perfect.

Your résumé has limited space, right?

Because we are most assuredly keeping it to one page no matter what.

Your website gives your experience, personality, portfolio, and professional brand room to work together.

It brings your resume to life!

It also gives the introduction letter from Step 2 somewhere meaningful to send the reader.

However . . .

You do not need fourteen pages, dramatic animations, or a private jet taking off behind your name. 😭

Your website should be:

Clean.

Easy to navigate.

Mobile-friendly.

Consistent with your brand kit.

And very clear about how someone can contact you.

Your location and base availability should not require an investigation.

Neither should your résumé or portfolio.

If an operator, employer, lead flight attendant, or chief pilot visits your website, they should understand within SECONDS:

Who you are.

What you offer.

Where you are available.

And how to reach you.

This becomes especially valuable when someone refers you.

Instead of trying to explain your entire background on someone else’s behalf, they can simply share your website.

Your professional presence continues working even when you are not in the room.

And as always . . .

Protect confidentiality.

No passenger photos.

No identifying documents.

No private owner information.

No visible tail numbers without permi

09/21/2026

I said yes to an international trip before I fully understood what time I was supposed to report.

Sound familiar to anyone? 🤭

Thursday morning, I woke up to a message in one of my WhatsApp groups looking for a flight attendant for a departure “tonight” at 0830Z.

I stared at it.

Zulu time.

Okay. 😅

I had obviously seen Zulu time before . . . but this was the first time I actually needed to know what it meant for me, right now, in South Florida.

So naturally, I asked ChatGPT.

0430L.

With a 0230L report time.

Ohhh . . . THAT kind of “tonight.”

Got it. 👍🏼

Except the post had already been sitting there for a couple of hours, and anyone who knows the South Florida CFA market knows what probably happened next:

Resumes.

A massive influx of them.

So instead of sending mine with some version of “PLEASE PICK ME,” I sent her a message:

“Did you find the help you needed?”

That was it.

We started talking.

A few hours later, I found out she was the flight attendant originally trying to cover the trip herself, but she couldn’t get from Nice, France to Fort Lauderdale in time.

And somewhere in that conversation, she decided she trusted me to step in.

Later, she told me that my approach was part of what caught her attention.

Not a giant pitch from me about why she should pick me.

Not twenty reasons from her to sort through to determine whether I was qualified.

Just a normal conversation between two flight attendants trying to solve a problem.

By lunchtime, I still didn’t know if I was actually going.

A few hours later, I had confirmation.

Okay.

Now I needed to pack, get my dogs taken care of, and somehow convince my body that 1:00 AM was morning and time to wake up for a very long duty day.

Because apparently I was going to bed around the same time most people were deciding what they wanted for dinner. 😭

And I hadn’t even stepped onto the airplane yet.

Have you ever said yes to something and then immediately thought . . .

Okay, now I need to figure this out? 😂

Yours Inflight

09/17/2026

Your résumé can tell someone you create elevated inflight experiences.

Your portfolio actually shows them.

That is why Step 4 of the CFA Career Roadmap is so important.

A portfolio is not simply a collection of pretty food pictures.

It is visual proof of your capabilities, creativity, attention to detail, and understanding of private aviation service.

And for my CFAs who are brand new to the industry . . .

You do NOT need to wait until someone hires you to begin.

Create the work.

Design a menu.

Plate the meal.

Build the welcome display.

Show how your experience translates into an aircraft.

Because “I know I could do this if someone gave me a chance” is difficult for an employer to evaluate.

A thoughtful portfolio helps them see the possibility.

A strong portfolio gives an operator, recruiter, chief pilot, lead flight attendant, or private family something your résumé cannot:

The ability to picture what you could bring to their aircraft.

This is Step 4 of the Yours Inflight 9-step CFA Career Roadmap.

Inside the mentorship, Yours Inflight students learn how to build a strategic portfolio for the opportunities they are pursuing.

Because a folder full of random food photos is not a professional portfolio.

It is simply proof that you eat. 😂

In the comments below, I add what your portfolio can contain, how to give your photos context, and what should NEVER appear in it. 👇🏼

Ready to create a portfolio that shows what you can bring onboard?

DM me the word “PORTFOLIO.”

08/31/2026

On my very first live leg as a CFA, I was handed two $100 bills . . . for a 54-minute flight.

Reno to Las Vegas.

I just stared at them.

In college, I waited tables.

A REALLY good double on the weekend might have meant going home with $200 after being on my feet all day.

I had just made that in a tip.

In 54 minutes.

😳

That first rotation was full of little moments where I kept thinking:

Ohhhhh.

This world is different.

At one point I saw the receipt for one of our hot crew breakfasts.

$39.

For breakfast.

In 2021. 😂

My brain immediately went:

“I could have bought all of this at Publix for $12.”

But I was slowly learning that private aviation doesn’t always operate around:

What is the cheapest way to do this?

Sometimes it’s:

What do we need?
Where do we need to get it?
And when does it need to be there?

Another morning, my hotel had made-to-order omelets.

This sounds so silly now talking about it outloud. 😆

It’s not because an omelet is fancy.

But because I felt genuinely taken care of while I was on the road.

Like I mattered while I was out there doing my job.
. . story continued in the comments 🥹👇🏼

08/28/2026

If your résumé is royal blue, your portfolio is sage green, and your LinkedIn banner is burgundy . . .

You do not have a brand kit.

You have a color identity crisis. 😬

Your professional materials should look like members of the same family.

Not five strangers who met in a hotel lobby and suddenly became friends. 😅

A simple brand kit includes:

Your colors.

Your font pairing.

And, if you want one, a logo.

Every color has its own unique six-digit hex code.

The Yours Inflight royal blue is # 0000FF.

White is # FFFFFF.

Black is # 000000.

Using the exact hex code keeps your colors consistent instead of choosing whichever version of blue Canva presents to you that afternoon. 😁

Choose 3–5 colors MAX and one consistent font pairing.

And a logo?

Completely optional.

Please do not spend three weeks designing one while your colors and fonts remain undecided.

Oof, I see this hurdle OFTEN. 😅

Your résumé, introduction letter, portfolio, website, and social media should all look like they belong to the same CFA.

Because selecting a different shade of blue every Tuesday is not branding.

That is allowing Canva to make your decisions for you.

And welp . . . that is just not helpful, now is it? 😂

This is Step 3 of the Yours Inflight 9-step CFA Career Roadmap.

Ready to create a professional brand people can recognize?

DM me and let’s chat things out.

AviationCareers

08/26/2026

I was determined NOT to let the pilots know this was my very first private jet trip.

That lasted approximately five minutes. 😭

First giveaway?

My luggage.

I confidently rolled my suitcase right up to the FRONT stairs of the airplane like I absolutely knew what I was doing.

One pilot looked at me.

“What are you doing?”

“I have my luggage?”

“Here? Cargo is in the back.”
. .

Oh. Right. Of course it is. 😭

Then on day two, the pilots switched seats.

Coming from the airlines, this was NOT a thing.

So naturally, I saw one of them in the left seat that was right seat yesterday, and I decided to let a little personality out.

“Oooooh! Big shot in the left seat today!” 😆

They both looked at me.

“We switch every other leg.”
. .

Oh.

Of course you do. 🥲

Then came my first live leg.

Reno to Las Vegas.

54 minutes.

Four passengers.

One giant fruit tray.

I had seen all the beautiful private aviation Instagram photos, so I started trying to make a fancy welcome table.

It looked like fruit.

On a tray. 😭

One pilot looked at me.

“What are you doing?”

“I’m making a welcome table.”

“There’s no need to do that.”
. .

You right.🙂‍↕️

And then came the next embarrassing moment . . .

Passengers had been served.

And I was STARVING.

I had no idea there was a divider door between the forward galley and cabin.

So instead of closing it and eating like a normal person . . .

I wedged myself into the corner and tried to secretly eat a cracker.

One pilot caught me.

“Why don’t you close the door so you can eat?”
. .

THERE’S A DOOR?! 😭😭😭

5 years later, this still makes me laugh.

Bc I wasn’t incapable.

I simply didn’t know what I hadn’t lived yet.

Sometimes you just have to get on the aircraft.

Roll your bag to the wrong door.

Make the dumb joke.

Build the unnecessary welcome table.

Eat the secret cracker.

And humbly learn. 🥹

Because the only way to stop being new . . .

Is to be willing to look new for a little while.

Part 2 of 3.

Stay tuned for Friday.

08/25/2026

If you are sending the exact same cover letter to , , , a Part 91 family with dogs, and a three-day contract opportunity . . .

Have you actually introduced yourself?

Or did you use a generic template and change the recipient’s name? 😏

Most people recognize the term “cover letter.”

Successful Yours Inflight students treat it as a warm introduction letter because its purpose is not simply to “cover” your résumé.

Your résumé explains what you have done.

Your introduction letter connects that experience to the specific opportunity in front of you.

It introduces the human being behind the résumé.

YOU. 🫵🏼

Your personality.

Career experience.

Safety training.

Service capabilities.

Portfolio.

Professional presence and personal brand.

And most importantly . . .

Why all of it is relevant to THIS opportunity.

A letter written to a private Part 91 family with children and dogs should feel completely different from one written to NetJets.

NetJets, Flexjet, and VistaJet are not interchangeable.

And none of those letters should sound like the one you send for a three-day contract trip next Thursday.

Respectfully, my dear friends . . .

They already know why your résumé is attached. 😁

Tell them why YOU make sense for THEM.

A warm professional reference can also be valuable when someone within the company genuinely knows your work, character, or reputation.

That is not random name-dropping.

That is a warm reference.

Therefore . . .

Do not mention someone simply because you stood next to them at .exchange or BACE for five minutes. 😭

Their name should strengthen your introduction because they can confidently speak about you.

This is Step 2 of the Yours Inflight nine-step CFA Career Roadmap.

Because changing the company name at the top is not tailoring your letter.

That is copy, paste, and a prayer.😏

If you are ready to learn how to introduce yourself strategically, DM me and let’s chat things out.

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