Please stop touching the flight attendants

Michelle Montez, a flight attendant for 20 years, said barely a flight goes by where someone doesn’t poke, tap, prod or otherwise touch her. “It’s almost a rare occurrence when it doesn’t happen,” she said. In a video clip from the “Jumpseat Chronicles Podcast,” which she co-hosts with colleagues Joshua Boyd and Darion Foy, the trio said they have heard the complaint from multiple people in the industry and experienced it themselves: getting poked in the arm, the side, the rear end. Many consider it a violation, even if passengers aren’t acting maliciously. “You can talk to any flight attendant...