I was a Virgin flight attendant for 17 years - influencers are the worst type of passenger

A former Virgin Atlantic flight attendant, Skye Taylor, has unravelled the travails of her 17-year tenure in the skies that led to persistent insomnia, culminating in a drastic career switch to become a model. Taylor didn't hold back on revealing the most troublesome passengers she encountered—social media influencers were frequently her biggest headache.

Explaining her experiences, Taylor disclosed: "The influencer type where maybe an agent gets them an upgrade can be quite hard to deal with because they can feel quite entitled. We have had incidents where we carry disabled or terminally-ill children on and they go upper class and rightly so because a lot of them can't travel in a normal seat."

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She continued by addressing the tantrums thrown when privileged travellers do not grasp the gravity of these situations: "And that can cause problems as well with people not understanding that the child is poorly and some people can feel put out by that."

While Taylor conceded that TOWIE celebrities like Gemma Collins were invariably courteous, she pointed out the haughtiness of certain influencers boasting substantial social media clout: "It is the influencers who are famous for just one thing and they say 'I have 100,000 followers on Instagram and I am someone important'. They can be very rude and have that attitude like you are supposed to know who they are."

Additionally, it wasn't just the digital elites proving problematic; middle-class mothers who treated cabin crew as makeshift nannies also drew her ire, reports the Daily Star.

Skyle revealed that many mothers treated her and her fellow workers as a "nanny" and