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It’s wheels down, rings off — and bottoms up.
Welcome to the wild world of pilots’ and air crews’ parties that turn layovers into Tinder-fueled bacchanals.
The spotlight was cast on the untamed scene by the revelation that married British Airways pilot snorted cocaine off a topless woman’s breasts hours before a London-bound flight then turned up to fly the plane.
“I’ve been a very naughty boy,” he texted a colleague.
And while he might be an outlier, say cabin crew, there’s no doubt that he’s not alone.
“I’ve seen a pilot puking at dinner on a layover from drinking so much,” one flight attendant for Alaska Airlines said.
“He must have had some in his hotel room, so he was on another level when he got to dinner. The captain after dinner walked him back to his room and he probably slept for 15 hours.”
It seemed to help: he didn’t reek of booze at the gate, the flight attendant of 15 years recalled.
“He showed up to the airplane dressed professionally and was not hungover in my opinion,” the attendant said.
“Was I nervous at all? No. Did he break any rules? Not one,” she said. “Did he stop drinking prior to 10 hour rule? Absolutely.”
Marika Mikusova, who chronicled her five years in the skies in 2022’s “Diary of a Flight Attendant,” never crossed paths with drunken colleagues, but recalled the “comical” scenario of seeing pilots with wedding bands during pre-flight briefings.
“Was I nervous at all? No. Did he break any rules? Not one,” she said. “Did he stop drinking prior to 10 hour rule? Absolutely.”
“As soon as we landed and gathered at the airport to pick up our suitcases, the ring mysteriously disappeared from his ring finger,” Mikusova, 34, of the Czech Republic, told The Post.
“Such things happened from time to time. Pilots are considered ‘hot stuff’ among (not only) single cabin crew, so it was no surprise when a colleague of mine overshared details about a Jacuzzi the captain had in his room and how she enjoyed her layover there.”
Another flight attendant for a major American airline, meanwhile, said adultery plagues the industry, driven largely by “super charismatic” womanizing pilots who emulate Hollywood stars.
“I don’t know if they saw ‘Catch Me If You Can’ or something and decided to try to become Leonardo DiCaprio,” she said.
“I had a friend who had a different Tinder date in every city we went to. He tells the ladies it’s a casual thing, so I feel like that’s his business.”
The industry vet who runs a podcast, Flight Attendant Confessional, where she shares tales culled from more than 5 million miles on a major US carrier told The Post: “There are a lot of cheaters in the airline industry. Pilots and flight attendants.
“A friend of mine was dating a guy who had two lives. His girlfriend, and his family with kids. She had no idea.