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With her skirt stuck to her legs by her fall in the mud outside, an elegantly-dressed blonde woman stepped into the office building’s stylish reception area. The receptionist, a short-haired brunette dressed in a tight black miniskirt, purple blouse, sheer black stockings and black high heels, stood up from her desk and came forward to greet her. “Lorraine!” she squealed. “It’s great to see you so soon! It’s been a long time since we saw each other last.”
“Connie!” exclaimed the blonde, recognising an old school friend whom she hadn’t seen since they had gone to different universities. “I didn’t know you had joined Uncle Alf’s company!”
“Yeah, I applied for the receptionist position eighteen months ago,” replied Connie. “And I’ve loved every minute since.”
Lorraine smiled. “Good to hear that,” she responded happily. “Look, I want to meet anyone who’s available here in the conference room in about twenty minutes. Could you pass the word?”
“Oh! So, you’re the new owner!” exclaimed Connie, slapping her forehead in mortification. “Will do! We’ve got most of our long-haul flight and cabin crew here at the moment. You want them too?”
Lorraine rolled her eyes at Connie’s ditzy moment. Still need to spell things out for Connie, I see. “Please, Connie, I did say anyone available,” she replied patiently. “See you then.”
Lorraine turned away as Connie began sending off the messages of notification to those who needed them. The blonde woman, with the mud drying into her skirt, wandered through the stylish interior of the office building. A wave of nostalgia washed over as she saw details she remembered from her childhood. She chuckled at the dark wood panelling of the conference room. Mum and Dad did always say that Alf decorated it like an up-market bachelor pad!
A voice behind her snapped her out of her reverie. “I see you’ve fallen for Alfred’s little welcome mat for those who don’t know about how it works around here, ” commented a blonde in a blue mini dress raising her gaze from Lorraine’s mud-splattered bum. “I’m Rachel, the marketing manager, by the way.”
The mud-stained blonde laughed. “Yeah, I should have remembered Alfred’s little predilection for pranks!” she chuckled. “I’m his niece Lorraine.”
She held out her hand for the other woman shake. Recognition lit up Rachel’s eyes. “Alfred did tell us a lot about you,” she remarked. “Hear you’re something of a business whizz kid!”
Lorraine blushed deeply. “I wouldn’t go that far!” she groaned. “Uncle Alf always had a high opinion of me.”
Rachel smiled. “So do the business and finance media outlets!” she interjected. “Started a travel agency while in college and sold it for a billion one year after graduation? That took some doing.”
Lorraine did not think her blush could get any redder but it did until her cheeks felt like they were on fire. “Please, stop before you make my head explode!”
The marketing manager let out a high-pitched, tinkling laugh. “Well, that would be a bit too messy!” she giggled. “So, I guess your arrival is the reason for the meeting at ten, right?”
Lorraine gave a lopsided grin. “Yeah, I wanted to ‘meet the team’ so to speak,” she admitted. “See if anyone has any ideas for things going forward. Especially with the competition that’s out there.”
Rachel smiled widely at that. “I can’t argue with that,” she agreed. “We’ve certainly seen a lot of it with the likes of Ryanair and Norwegian.”
A dark blonde-haired woman walked in at that point wearing a black skirt and a red satin blouse. “Oh, I see you arrived for a meeting early as always, Rachel!” she said cheerfully. She then spotted Lorraine. “Hi! Don’t think we’ve met before. I’m Jacqueline, the Human Resources Manager.”
The blonde in the black suit smiled. “I’m Lorraine Hart,” she introduced herself. “And yes, that does make me Alfred’s niece.”
“She wants to see what ideas everyone might have to build on the business we already have,” explained Rachel. “What’s keeping, Katie?”
“She’s our Accounts Manager,” explained Jacqueline. “And probably has buried herself in the accounts again!”
“Very funny, Jacqui!” came a voice behind them. A brunette in a knitted long-sleeved grey minidress stepped into the room.
The three women who were waiting in the room laughed. Rachel grinned. “Katie, this is Lorraine, who Alfred left the airline to,” she said, waving her hand in the direction of the other blonde. “She’s his niece. You probably read about what she was able to do with her travel agency. ”
Katie grinned. “Wow! Yeah!” she exclaimed. “Alfred wouldn’t shut up about that coup of yours. It’s great that you’re going to be involved here!”
Moments later, a group of twenty pilots and fifteen flight attendants/check-in agents walked into the room, followed by Connie. Lorraine smiled at the group. “Welcome, everyone,” she called out, catching their attention. “Please, take a seat.”
The airline’s blonde-haired new owner waited while the large group of people sat down, chairs scraping on the wooden floor. When they were all seated, she approached a lectern. “Hello, everyone,” she said. “For those of you who don’t know me, I’m Lorraine Hart. Yes, I’m Alfred’s niece who he left the company to when he died. Now, I’m going to be blunt here. The company has debts of half a million, which will likely grow if we don’t do something.”
One of the pilots raised a hand as Lorraine checked his name from a sheet with employee photos on it. She pointed to him. “You’ve a question, Dave?” she asked.
He shrugged apologetically. “Would I be right to think that the MD-11s are costing us the most?” He asked, tugging at his shirt cuffs.
Lorraine smiled, glancing at the relieved-looking Katie who was sat to her right. “You just hit the nail on the head, Dave,” she admitted. “Any thoughts on them?”
Dave glanced at his fellow pilots. “Well, ma’am, the reality is that most of us pilots have transitioned to the 737s, 747s or 380s,” he said quietly. “The rest of the MD crews have all retired recently, so those aircraft are really just parked in the hangars.”
Lorraine gaped. “So, we’ve got eight planes, that we can’t make any revenue from, just sitting around on the ramp?” she asked disbelievingly. “How do we go about disposing of them?”
Katie spoke up then. “Well, once we take what we want to keep and re-use,” she began. “We just sell them to a component recovery company and they deal with the rest. Any ideas about what we should keep for ourselves from them?”
A blonde-haired check-in agent in a flight attendant’s uniform face-palmed. “There are forty business class seats on those aircraft,” she remarked. “Could we take them out and put them in the dash eight jumbo jets?”
“I don’t see why not, Joanna,” remarked Lorraine, thinking of what that would change in their latest wide-body aircraft. “That would boost the business class seat numbers to eighty, wouldn’t it?”
“Yep!” chorussed the flight attendants together. A buzz began to fill the room at this point as relatively simple upgrades to the aircraft interiors were proposed.
Lorraine decided to get the meeting back on track. “Those ideas are all good ones, everyone,” she cautioned. “But how do we fill these planes?”
There was a sea of stumped-looking faces. A brown-haired flight attendant spoke up at this point. “Err, I’ve got an idea that’s a bit out there,” she said tentatively.
Lorraine shrugged. “Well, let’s hear it, Jill,” she replied, building up the other woman’s confidence having once again checked for her name.
The brunette smiled slightly. “Well, we all have to admit that air travel has got a bit humdrum,” she commented. “So, let’s put the glamour back into it. Also, Rachel, what has been a marketing constant through the ages?”
The blonde marketing manager frowned in puzzlement. “What do you mean?” she thought aloud. “You don’t mean ‘Sex Sells,’ do you?”
Jill laughed. “Yeah, I do,” she giggled at the shocked faces of the three managers and the company owner. “Let’s have some sexy cabin crew uniforms in an eye-catching colour.”
Lorraine smirked. “So, short skirts in shocking pink?” she asked half-jokingly. To her surprise, the female cabin crew answered in the affirmative.
Joanna grinned. “And the check-in agents could have a tighter version of our current uniform,” she interjected. “By the way, have you heard about that Mile High Air?”
Lorraine nodded. “Yeah, they’re potentially big competition, ” she added. “I’ve heard their planes are like strip clubs and from what I’ve heard they’re offering more than that experience.”
Jacqueline cleared her throat. “So, we offer special flights for members of the fetish communities,” she proposed nervously.
The others looked aghast for a long moment before wholeheartedly agreeing to it. The meeting broke up with half of them going off to the company’s hangars to swap seats from the now-retired aeroplanes to their more modern replacements. The others went back to their tasks around the office.
Lorraine walked with Katie, Rachel and Jacqueline towards their offices. “You know, I think I need to get one of our check-in agents’ uniforms,” she murmured, drawing three surprised looks from the others. “Family credo; ‘Don’t expect others to do what you wouldn’t do yourself.’ That was drummed into me since I was a toddler.”
The other three laughed at that. They soon split up to go to their own offices, settling down at their desks to go through the reams of paperwork on their desks. Rachel got started on designing the online advertisements. One was more conventional than the other. A couple of days later, users of a web forum found an advert on the site which was, for them, intriguing.”
Concurrent with these measures was a major rebranding of the airline. With a new name, colour scheme and uniforms, Hot Air was born. The new-look was launched to the press a week later with an example of each type of aircraft in the company’s fleet.




From inside the massive bulk of the A380, walked members of the check-in staff and cabin crew. They walked up to where Lorraine stood next to a lectern wearing her freshly dry cleaned black suit. Photographers jostled each other to capture the line of pink and grey/black-clad women.






As the smaller of the two 747s spooled up its engines and taxied towards the airport terminal, sparking pyrotechnics were triggered back-lighting the seven women.
A day later, Lorraine was going over a set of invoices that Katie had asked her to double-check. She was wearing a black dress and some tasteful jewellery as she had just left yet another unsuccessful date with yet another greedy would-be suitor who had an eye on her personal fortune and had decided to come in and get some work done. Suddenly, Rachel, Katie and Jacqueline burst into the room. The blonde behind the desk looked up in surprise. “Hi, ladies, what’s up?”
Rachel was visibly bubbling with excitement. “Well, we’ve hit gold with offering ‘messy’ in-flight entertainment,” she said proudly, sliding four sheets of paper across the desk. Four bookings, a stag and two hen parties heading to Ibiza on separate 737s and a hen party going to Barbados on the Blue Lady.” The Blue Lady was one of Hot Air’s 747-8s but instead of the lettering in the logos being the company’s usual red, she was bedecked with blue writing except for the web address on the fuselage.
The company owner’s spirits soared. “Really?!” she couldn’t believe it.
The other three nodded in reply. “Yeah!” cut in Katie cheerfully. “Four planes chartered over the next two days.”
Lorraine leaned back in her chair. “Right, when’s Blue Lady booked for?” she asked.
The brunette financial officer glanced at the booking form. “Hmmm, tomorrow by the looks of it.”
“Right, someone who charters a jumbo jet just to have her hen party in Barbados is going to expect a certain level of service,” smiled Lorraine. “I think I better lend a hand at check-in and then escort that group to the gate, maybe?”
The others thought it over. A look of realisation spread across Rachel’s face. “Boss, if that’s the case,” she opined. “And that’s such a ‘high-powered’ group, maybe you should be onboard, just in case?”
The blonde woman nodded thoughtfully. “Does anyone else think so?” She got three nods in reply. “Okay, looks like I’ll be airborne tomorrow.”
Three mischievous smiles spread across the three managers’ faces. They reached out, taking Lorraine by the arms and pulling her to her feet.
“Ladies, what’s going on?” she asked, curiosity getting the better of her.
Katie grinned at her. “Well, Lorraine,” she said quietly. “The check-in staff and cabin crew have a little tradition to welcome newbies to those roles.”
Jacqueline stuck her head out the door and whistled. Ten seconds later, blonde-haired check-in agents Joanna and a brunette in the company’s check-in agent’s uniform walked in rolling a catering trolley between them.


From this, they both picked up a large gooey-looking chocolate cake. Lorraine, with Rachel and Katie still holding her by the arms, could only watch as the two frontline staff advanced on her, raising the cakes as they approached.
With faux-apologetic smiles on their faces, they slowly pushed the cakes into both sides of Lorraine’s head. Thick, soft chocolate fudge icing and chocolate sponge engulfed her gorgeous blonde hair and well-made-up face and fell onto her dress. Chocolate stained her dress while globs of chocolate fudge slipped under her neckline adding streaks of chocolatey goo to her breasts.
Lorraine laughed at the state she was now in. “Now I know why, every now and then when I was little, someone would walk out of here with goo in their hair, ” she giggled. “Thanks, girls, you got me good! I guess I’m ready for whatever tomorrow might bring.”
The others joined in with Lorraine’s laughter. Joanna wiped a finger through the remnants of the cake that covered Lorraine’s eyes and sucked the icing and sponge off of it. “Welcome to the team, boss!” she said merrily.
After Lorraine had wiped away most of the cake from her face with a towel, six women left the building. With cheerful waves and jokes between themselves, they climbed into their cars or walked to the nearest bus stop, heading home to get ready for what was sure to be an eventful day.
Author’s note: and that was Chapter Two. Hope you enjoyed it. I’ve tried to catch any spelling/grammar mistakes but if you spot any, please, let me know. Alternatively, just let me know what you think of it, either way I like to read your thoughts. Again, thanks for reading!
Coming up in Chapter Three; Hot Air flight 2020 cleared for take-off! Let the mess fly!!!