He borrowed the book title from "an old dirty joke", which he reproduced in the introduction to the 2007 edition:
He combined all the anecdotes and certain elements of personal information into the two fictitious narrators, Trudy Baker and Robin Jolly. He improvised a standard list of questions, including "Where do you live?", "Where do you have fun?", "Where do you meet up?", and "Where are the liveliest places you've been to?". Ren took the initiative to interview more flight attendants, collecting more anecdotes and information. Ren recalled that when he sat down with them and wrote down their anecdotes, "I realised they didn't have enough to sustain a book." He ended up asking them for more information about the day-to-day aspects of the job in order to have more material. Ren Salto was assigned to the project, and introduced to two Gyliair flight attendants who thought they might be able to write a book together.
After returning from a trip on a flight where she saw the Jørna Winther comedy Tre fyre ved navn Mads, she noted that there were not many works about flight attendants. The idea for the book came from Imperial SA founder Sári Gábor.
Vilmos Vencel's illustration for Chapter 4, showing Trudy, Robin, and "stew-bum" George The ghostwriter, Ren Salto, is acknowledged in the credits solely as "editor". The book includes illustrations by Vilmos Vencel, who portrays the flight attendants and female passengers with his trademark "refined raunch", and also designed the cover. One chapter details the full list of tasks that occupy a five-hour flight, complete with sarcastic retorts to unreasonable passenger demands and complaints. Specific chapters are dedicated to the occupation's jargon (including the notion of "stew-bums"), the inner workings of Gyliair's workers' self-management and the flight attendants' trade union, a "stew's-eye view" of the "liveliest" cities in Gylias and Tyran, and humorous observations on the stereotypes of flight passengers based on nationality and occupation. Neighbourhoods in cities where they usually live.The anecdotes are interspersed with various lists related to the stewardess life, such as the following: While it emphasises the sexy aspects of the job, it also recounts difficult experiences, such as disruptive passengers, unruly children, sexual harrassment, and the exhausting nature of the job's emotional labour and disrupted sleeping patterns. Written in the first person voice of Trudy Baker, the book describes a kind of glamorous lifestyle from the stewardess' point of view, working for Gyliair over the course of two years.
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