Flight Attendants Use Secret Lights Around the Plane to Communicate — Here’s How It Works

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By Cailey Rizzo

Managing hundreds of passengers on a plane is no easy task. It’s just the flight attendant’s job to make it look that way. They have to know absolutely everything about safety aboard the aircraft —and even know quite a bit about each passenger (before travelers even board the plane).

To make it easier, they have their own secret language to get through each and every flight. And they also send secret signals to each other using one piece of equipment that’s hidden in plain sight.

What looks like an exit sign to the normal passenger is, in fact, a normal exit sign. But on the lower edge of the sign is what’s known as the “Area Call Panel” or ACP, Mateusz Maszczynski, an international flight attendant, revealed on Paddle Your Own Kanoo.

If you pay attention on your next flight, you’ll notice lights on the panel that let flight attendants know when their attention is needed throughout the aircraft.

If a blue light appears on the ACP, it means that a passenger has pressed the call button at their seat. (Sometimes the ACP has two blue lights to let a flight attendant know which side of the aisle the passenger is seated.)

Managing hundreds of passengers on a plane is no easy task. It’s just the flight attendant’s job to make it look that way. They have to know absolutely everything about safety aboard the aircraft —and even know quite a bit about each passenger (before travelers even board the plane).

To make it easier, they have their own secret language to get through each and every flight. And they also send secret signals to each other using one piece of equipment that’s hidden in plain sight.

What looks like an exit sign to the normal passenger is, in fact, a normal exit sign. But on the lower edge of the sign is what’s known as the “Area Call Panel” or ACP, Mateusz Maszczynski, an international flight attendant, revealed on Paddle Your Own Kanoo.

If you pay attention on your next flight, you’ll notice lights on the panel that let flight attendants know when their attention is needed throughout the aircraft.

If a blue light appears on the ACP, it means that a passenger has pressed the call button at their seat. (Sometimes the ACP has two blue lights to let a flight attendant know which side of the aisle the passenger is seated.)

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