A seasoned flight attendant who’s witnessed the ‘mile high club’ in action has revealed what the actual protocol is.

Nicola Dale, who worked as a Qantas flight attendant for 34 years, appeared on Australian breakfast show Sunrise back in 2024 to discuss what happens when love is well and truly in the air.

“It is actually a thing. It happens,” she confessed.

“You see sort of one person go into the bathroom, and then sort of someone else, like, you know, follows in there and you hear noises.”

Calling it ‘hilarious’, Dale said that crew members are then instructed to do a ‘non emergency call’ by alerting all the other flight attendants to what’s going on.

She said that around ‘half a dozen cabin crew’ are waiting for when ‘the door eventually sort of like opens’.

Dale thinks people do it ‘to like tick the box’.

When asked if she ever has to rush them up, she replied: “Well, it depends on the situation.”

The mile high club is a real thing, according to flight attendants (Getty Stock Images)

Mandy Smith, a former Virgin Atlantic flight attendant, also admitted on LADbible’s Honesty Box that she’s witnessed people trying their luck in the plane’s toilets.

“Well, yes. I have not seen anyone in flagrante, full nakedness, ’cause we can take those doors off, you know. Even though you’ve locked it, we can open them, and we can take the whole door,” Smith said.

“But no. I have stopped people, knocked on the door, and just said, you know, ‘Excuse me, can you come out,’ kind of thing, ’cause I kind of know what you’re doing.

Flight attendant Mandy Smith said she’s had to stop people from going into the toilets (LADbible)

“It’s worse when you’ve got children on board, and it’s in the daytime, but if it’s on a night flight and they’re being discreet, I probably wouldn’t even interrupt them, if I’m honest.”

Smith reckons it happens in around ‘one in 20 or 30 flights’.

“Now, one of my friends had a situation where there was a young lady of 18 who was quite determined to join the mile-high club, and she just grabbed anyone,” Smith recalled.

“I don’t know how she met this chap, or how they discussed it, or how they’d agreed to do this, but the cabin crew went and stopped her.

“Then she sat back down in her seat, and then about half an hour later she was back up with another chap trying to join the mile-high club again.

“But then my friend said that she went to speak to her parents, ’cause she was actually travelling with her mum and dad.

“She was only 18, bless her, so yeah, she didn’t do it again. We should have, like, condom dispensers in there or something.”