The Villages - June 2020 - 22
Before They Were Villagers
SEAT BACKS AND TRAY TABLES
IN
UPRIGHT
POSITIONS
VILLAGERS SHARON LOGAN AND PAT GALLAGHER
RECOUNT 40+ YEARS AS FLIGHT ATTENDANTS
BY MARK ANDERSON | PHOTOS BY ROB WILKERSON
For more than four decades, Sharon Logan and
Pat Gallagher have taken to the skies as flight
attendants for some of the world's largest airlines.
The pair also happen to be neighbors, living just a few
houses down from each other in the Village of Dunedin.
Even though they started with separate airlines, both
Gallagher and Logan currently work for the same airline
after various acquisitions.
Flight attendants often are romanticized - conjuring
images of well-dressed employees on a Pan-American flight
in the 1960s - and even though Logan and Gallagher
say that the job used to be a bit more
glamourous than it is now, it still
is an incredibly enjoyable and
rewarding career.
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"It's a ton of fun," Gallagher said. "You get to go places,
see people, meet people, see cities all over the world and have
incredible vacations. It's truly a dream job and they pay you
to do it. It's like, 'Wow!'"
Their jobs take them all over the world, especially since
both Gallagher and Logan say they prefer international
flights compared to domestic flights - those inside the
United States. They say international flights usually are
filled with passengers on vacation and the mood generally is
lighter than flights within the United States.
Working as a flight attendant means working at
odd hours since flights run on a 24/7 basis. Gallagher
and Logan are adamant that being a flight attendant is
something anyone can do as long as they are willing to
work sometimes long hours at uncommon hours of the
day - Logan says getting into a Circadian sleep rhythm is
nearly impossible since you often
are sleeping at unusual times,
especially when skipping
through multiple time zones.
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