Air travel
5 surprising things about flight attendants today
“Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.” Unknown flight attendant Check out these surprising things about flight attendants The flight attendant job is not glamorous. “We deal with a lot of trash —…
Read MoreHow did the 1970s change air travel forever?
Big winds of social revolutions and innovation brought winds of change to air travel. Stewardesses fought back and became flight attendants. It started when the1968, federal courts struck down the rules forbidding marriage and age requirements, for stewardesses. This action skyrocketed the momentum that zoomed into the 1970s with two major landmark changes for airline…
Read MoreWhat about the Jet Set age of travel? Hop on board and relive the Jet Age.
Get away from the hectic 21st century and time travel back to the carefree 1960s and enjoy your flight. Passengers were well heeled and famous If you were one of the lucky few to board a Boeing 707, you’d feel like a movie star. Air travel’s image was glamor and excitement.…
Read MoreEnjoy air travel with a 1950s stewardess.
Welcome aboard. When passengers boarded the plane; a stewardess would greet everyone and hand them a postcard. Since flying was so rare passengers felt compelled to document every moment on postcards with pictures of the plane or in-flight meal, to show their less lucky loved ones what the newfangled experience was like. Hang on to…
Read MoreHop on board and continue your flight with stewardesses in post WWII
Post-WWII gave us advanced airplanes and a booming economy. This combination lured tens of thousands of passengers like you aloft. Along with the growth in air travel, the rules of the business had changed. Ticket prices were government-regulated since most airlines flew the same planes, airlines sought new ways to compete. The basis of competition…
Read MoreWhat happened to stewardesses and air travel during WWII?
During WWII, commercial air travel came to a halt and gave way to flying limited aircraft designed to serve the war effort. WWII also brought changes for the stewardess. When the second world war began in 1939, female stewardesses with their nursing skills left the airlines to offer their healing skills in the military. This…
Read MoreCheck out the first stewardesses' highflying experiences.
“Aviation is proof that given, the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible.” Eddie Rickenbacker Ellen Church succeeded. Boeing Air Transport, the predecessor of United Airlines agreed to hire eight women, conditionally, for a three-month experiment. The country’s first stewardesses journey began on May 15, 1930, when Church and…
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What is the origin of the airline stewardess?
Find out why the chosen few loved highflying in the 1960s with its glamor and safety.
In the 1960s only the elite few could savor the glamor of the mile-high life. Even the stewardess selected to proffer this glamor were among the privileged few to travel in style. In 1967, TWA boasted that it accepted less than three percent of its applicants. In comparison, Harvard’s acceptance rate today is five percent.…
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