About Caitlyn - Crew Crosscheck

I am Caitlyn Rogers…

Founder of Crew Crosscheck. Author of the bestselling book: The Cabin Crew Interview Made Easy. Trusted companion to thousands of successful applicants worldwide.

But please allow me to introduce myself properly.

Names are my favourite accessories.

I’ve racked up almost as many names as I’ve had flight attendant interview rejections.

I’m Carrie-Ellise Poirier — though depending on the era, the outfit, or the identity crisis, you might know me as Caitlyn Rogers (pen name), Layla (stage name), Jasmine Pfeiffer (Hollywood misadventure), or Ellette Morgan (ugh, don’t ask).

In all, I’ve tried on, worn, and immortalised at least 12 names. Some of which I now have to explain at every future customs inquisition — because, yes, some have their own passports.

It’s safe to say, I’ve had a complicated relationship with identity.

I am a serial reject…

…Nineteen rejections, to be precise.

Yes, nineteen, not exactly the kind of thing you embroider on a tote, I know.

So, why should you listen to me?

I have a unique view of the airline recruitment process because I reverse-engineered my way from the bottom of the very bottom of the rejection pile and into the elite ranks of Emirates.

…I am EMIRATES TRAINED

I know how to be a good host

After interview failure number nineteen, I tested. I peeled back the polish, poked the soft bits, and found out where the system bends and where it snaps.

Even after I succeeded with Emirates, I never left the interview process. I’ve been coaching applicants for twenty years — researching airline recruitment for thirty.

Crew Crosscheck - Caitlyn Rogers - Emirates Graduation

Author Bio

Carrie-Ellise Poirier (Pen name: Caitlyn Rogers) is an indie author and publisher originally from Bristol, England, now residing in Seattle, Washington. Over twenty years, she has authored five books, including The Cabin Crew Interview Made Easy, Become Emirates Cabin Crew, and DreamCurves.

Carrie is currently working on a novelised memoir, The Good Girl Checklist. Told with the naïveté of The Maid and the craftiness of Catch Me If You Can, The Good Girl Checklist intertwines the psychological descent and gothic overtones of Black Swan with the underdog pursuit of Educated. Ideal for readers who appreciate characters as fractured as they are fierce.

Whilst her past reads like a mismatched CV — a belly dancer who couldn’t quite shimmy, a flight attendant who struggled with eye contact, and a bodybuilder more terrified of her reflection than stepping on stage — across five books, she has continually taken life’s struggles and fashioned them into something others’ can use to empower themselves.

After competing in the 2015 Miami Pro fitness competition, Carrie was interviewed and appeared on Bristol West News, and was featured in The Daily Mirror and Muscle & Fitness Hers. More recently, she appeared on the Rejected Central podcast and contributed essays to The BDD Foundation.

Carrie is committed to mental health advocacy. She serves as a research volunteer for University College London, a media volunteer for the BDD Foundation, and a grassroots advocate for the BDD Special Interest Group with the International OCD Foundation.

In 2024, Carrie pursued creative writing studies at UCLA and UC Berkeley, as well as through independent study with White Oleander author Janet Fitch.

My story

How I became an author

I never set out to become an author. It was the one thing I didn’t strategise — although, unsurprisingly, it did originate from my over-planning.

I dreamt of becoming a flight attendant. Only, I was warned at an early age that my personality wasn’t a fit for the elegant, fast-talking, Pan-Am smiling world of aviation. Still, I desperately wanted that uniform, so, during my final two years in high school, I designed an unusual project: reverse-engineer my personality to fit the flight attendant ideal.

For twelve long years that project became my obsession.

From it, emerged a wrist-thick compendium that not only reverse-engineered nineteen airline rejections, but also got me hired by Emirates.

That blueprint formed the foundation for my flagship book, The Cabin Crew Interview Made Easy, which went viral in an eBay auction and I’m proud to say Blackwell’s stocked its hand-bound debut edition.

From the comma to the cover, and long before print-on-demand was a thing, I ran a one-woman book production and distribution centre from my bedroom in Bristol, England — printing, gluing, ironing, guillotining, and pressing spines in a vice as demand grew by word of mouth.

Today, I’m a full-time author, and my flagship book is entering its 7th edition.

(Translation? I went wild on homework. It snowballed. Went a bit viral. Turned into the world’s longest-running school project — and somehow, years later, I’m still selling my high school assignment.)

Fun fact: In high school, I changed my name and convinced the popular crowd I was the mysterious new girl. I reverse-engineered popularity.