My name is Ellen Simonetti, but I am better known to Web surfers as the Queen of Sky.
I had been a flight attendant for Delta Air Lines for almost eight years when I started my blog, or online diary, in January of this year. I entitled it ‘Diary of a Flight Attendant.’
On Saturday, Sept. 25, I came home to flashing messages on my answering machine.
‘Ellen, I need you to call me back. It’s about your trip tomorrow,’ repeated the urgent-sounding voice on the tape.
The voice was that of a Delta Air Lines in-flight supervisor. I immediately dialed the number on the messages, thinking perhaps my Rome flight the next day had been cancelled. What the supervisor told me, however, left me shocked and sick to my stomach.
‘You won’t be able to fly your trip tomorrow…it’s about some pictures on the Web.’
The reason I started my blog in the first place was as a form of therapy…