With announcements, lanyards, buttons and reprimands, flight attendants implore passengers: Please don’t touch us.
Hannah Sampson is a staff writer at The Washington Post, where she focuses on travel news for the By The Way section. With a background in the business of travel, she has extensively covered themes such as consumer travel, airlines, and hospitality, drawing on her experience from previous roles at Skift and the Miami Herald. Hannah's work has been featured in numerous outlets, including Stuff, Yahoo News, and The Sydney Morning Herald.














