Flight Attendant Spots First Class Passenger Secretly Filming Her — And Shows Exactly How She Responded In The Moment

A first class flight attendant caught a passenger secretly filming her during the safety demo, then screenshotting the image and texting it to someone in a font so large she could read it. She broke down on TikTok how she handled the situation in real time, and what flight attendants are actually allowed to do when a passenger crosses the line.

• When Danika was providing pre-departure beverages, she noticed something off. A passenger in the first class cabin was holding his phone pointed at her, pretending to browse.

• During the safety demo she looked back and saw her own face on his screen—large enough to recognise.

• She had already noticed him texted the image to a friend, saying “I’m in a workplace. It’s not flattering. It’s uncomfortable.”

And she says this happens to her all the time, especially in first class. It makes her uncomfortable introducing herself, engaging with passengers, and that degrades her service.

@flywithdanika How would you handle this? :/ #flightattendant #cabincrew #advice #flightattendantlife #aviation ♬ original sound – Danika ✈️

She doesn’t hide who she flies for, or that she’s been working mostly reserve the past two years based out of Phoenix and then Salt Lake City. Here she is filming herself serving drinks to post for the internet. So it’s not about privacy, or not wanting to be seen serving drinks in first class! Instead, it’s a dude surreptitiously filming a woman that’s the creepy part, what is it he wants to do with the video.

@flywithdanika What’s ur airplane drink order? #flying #travel #flightattendant #firstclass #cabincrew ♬ Sex And The City – Main Theme – Geek Music

It used to be far more common for airlines to prohibit filming in the cabin, or try to split the hair of suggesting it was okay to film ‘your own personal events’ but not other passengers or crew. In practice this became challenging because filming in public became very much a norm as smartphones became ubiquitous.

And filming became a key way that passengers could protect themselves from overzealous crew – or law enforcement. Without cabin video, David Dao would never have received justice after being dragged off of a United flight and bloodied. (The airline even initially apologized to other passengers that Dr. Dao’s beatdown delayed them.)

Nonetheless, there’s filming for your own experience and there’s creeping. Like Potter Stewart said, we know the difference when we see it. Don’t be a creeper.