{"id":440445,"date":"2026-05-09T14:54:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T14:54:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/440445\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T14:54:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T14:54:17","slug":"if-a-flight-attendant-says-three-word-code-instead-of-goodbye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/440445\/","title":{"rendered":"If a flight attendant says three word code instead of goodbye"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"async\" data-no-modal=\"true\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/air-stewardess-welcome-front-airplane-917020853.jpg\" alt=\"Two smiling cabin crew members, a woman and a man, greet passengers at the airplane entrance.\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16931535\" width=\"3840\" height=\"2160\"\/>Credit: Getty<\/p>\n<p>FLYERS saying their goodbyes to flight attendants may want to keep their ears out for a three word phrase.<\/p>\n<p>The coded message could give travelers a big ego boost on their way out of the cabin.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSign up to The Irish Sun\u2019s daily newsletter\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tThank you!\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Flight attendants have plenty of secret phrases meant to keep passengers out of the loop.<\/p>\n<p>But one phrase is actually intended for passengers \u2013 and apparently has a raunchy hidden meaning, according to <a aria-label=\"9Travel (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/travel.nine.com.au\/latest\/secret-words-codes-flight-attendants-use-what-they-mean\/e21ea291-79b2-4b4e-87dc-6b318cd57ed9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">9Travel<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of saying goodbye, a flight attendant might \u201cplay a game called, \u2018see you later,&#8217;\u201d travel influencer Garret Clanton (<a aria-label=\"@gowithgarret (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@gowithgarret\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">@gowithgarret<\/a>) said in a TikTok seen by the outlet.<\/p>\n<p>Clanton claims if a flight attendant says these three words instead of goodbye, it could mean they\u2019d like to sleep with you.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, next time you getting off the plane and if that flight attendant says, \u2018see you later,\u2019 I think twice on what that really means,\u201d said Clanton.<\/p>\n<p>Another game played by crew members called \u201cCheerio\u201d uses a different codeword to communicate the same feeling, per the outlet.<\/p>\n<p>Much like \u201csee you later,\u201d flyers are most likely to hear this phrase from UK crewmembers as they\u2019re deplaning at the end of the flight.<\/p>\n<p>However, crew members will allegedly say it as they see the passenger they find attractive throughout the flight, giving plenty of opportunity for an ego boost.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, an anonymous flight attendant exclusively confirmed several other secret phrases used by crewmembers and their meanings to The U.S. Sun.<\/p>\n<p>Secret terms signaling issues on board, negative feelings about certain flyers, and more are all revealed.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Credit: Getty FLYERS saying their goodbyes to flight attendants may want to keep their ears out for a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":440446,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,61,60,191851,15969,185630],"class_list":["post-440445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-planes-flights-and-airlines","tag-travel-advice","tag-us-trends"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=440445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/440446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}