Sep 29th, 2011 at 1:00PM: The Association of Flight Attendants-CWA wants to point out that a lot has changed since the days of girdle and weight checks.
The world's largest Flight Attendant union, recognized the season premiere of Pan Am as a reminder of the extraordinary accomplishments of Flight Attendants at the forefront of the jet age, but noted that despite the glamorization of these women in the television ...Click on a label to read posts from that part of the world.
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Association of Flight Attendants champions female employees
Sep 29th, 2011 at 1:00PM: The Association of Flight Attendants-CWA wants to point out that a lot has changed since the days of girdle and weight checks.
The world's largest Flight Attendant union, recognized the season premiere of Pan Am as a reminder of the extraordinary accomplishments of Flight Attendants at the forefront of the jet age, but noted that despite the glamorization of these women in the television ...Galley Gossip: A letter to the producers of Project Runway regarding flight attendant uniforms
Aug 31st, 2011 at 11:00AM:
Dear Project Runway Producers,
Have I got a challenge for you! With the premiere of the new television show Pan Am airing September 25th on ABC, there's been a lot of talk about airlines in the news lately. One can't help but compare stewardesses of yesterday to flight attendants today, and yet the job rarely resembles what it once was so many years ago. Long gone are the days of glamour ...Galley Gossip: Age, weight and height requirements for flight attendants (and why Christina Ricci could never be a Pan Am stewardess)
Jun 7th, 2011 at 9:30AM:
"In this male-dominated world, in that famously openly chauvinistic culture, these women were really taking the reins and running their lives in a way most women didn't," Christina Ricci said in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter about her upcoming television show, Pan Am, a night time soap opera revolving around the lives of flight attendants and pilots in the 1960's. Think Mad Men ...Galley Gossip: Funny flight attendant book - Betty in the Sky with a Suitcase!
Aug 9th, 2010 at 9:30AM: Ever since reading the book Betty in the Sky with a Suitcase: Hilarious Stories of Air Travel by the World's Favorite Flight Attendant, written by Betty N. Thesky with Janet Spencer, I've been tempted to do a spin in the middle of the aisle as soon as I've finished serving my three rows to alert the flight attendant working on the other side of the cart that I'm ready to move. Normally we'll ...British Airways offering a crash course to retrain pilots as flight attendants
Jan 26th, 2010 at 4:30PM: Faced with another threat of a flight attendant strike, British Airways is preparing for the worst. The airline asked everyone within the company to voluntarily sign up for a 21 day training program to turn them into temporary flight attendants.
As of right now, only 216 volunteers signed up for the initiative, which falls quite a bit short of the 13,500 flight crew members that will walk out ...Galley Gossip: Lawyer wants to become a flight attendant
Jan 5th, 2010 at 9:30AM:
Dear Heather,
I am an attorney, but I stopped working to go back to school for a tax-law post graduate degree and learned so much in school about flight attendants - weird right? Well it's not really that weird because my professor used to work as a tax lawyer for an airline, so income tax and flight attendant benefits were a big topic! It really got me thinking... wait a minute... this ...Galley Gossip: Advice for the employees of US Airways
Nov 6th, 2009 at 9:30AM:
Heather,
Yesterday the flight attendants got terrible news at US Airways. THREE base closures. Mine included. In all these years, I've never commuted. And now, gone early next year: BOS, LGA and LAS. We got the news in the crew room. Some of the senior girls started to tear up. One cried, "I have thirty years, I've never commuted." The base is closing and we didn't even receive any ...Galley Gossip: Can an average Joe date a flight attendant?
Oct 21st, 2009 at 9:30AM:
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Hi my Name is Mark and I've wanted to date flight attendants for years, but like a lot of guys I don't get the chance to chat with them much. When you see one that's friendly and smiles a lot and is nice, those are the ones you want to kidnap and take ...Galley Gossip: How to create a flight attendant Halloween costume
Oct 6th, 2009 at 9:30AM:
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It's that time of year, people! Hopefully you've already figured out what you're going to be for Halloween. It is right around the corner, ya know.
I'm the type of person who usually waits until the last second to pull something together, which is why I almost ...Galley Gossip: The flight attendant was a mess!
Apr 16th, 2009 at 9:00AM: Heather, I am going to assume that you are a well put together flight attendant when I ask this question...Can you honestly say that you have never been embarrassed to walk through the terminal with any of your flying partners? You know the ones. They don't starch their shirts--or worse, they wear "the dress" because they think it doesn't need to be ironed (even on a 4 day). If they wear a jacket, ...Porn industry disgusted by flight attendant side job
Mar 23rd, 2009 at 11:30AM: "Look, we all have standards," an adult entertainer familiar with the full- and part-time work of Ryanair flight attendant Edita Schindlerova told The Independent. "I think it's disgusting that she works for Ryanair. All of us here at Biggus Dickus Productions feel really let down by her. If only she had told us she worked for them, maybe we could have done something to help her. Now, she has ...Ryanair flight attendant moonlights in porn
Mar 22nd, 2009 at 11:00AM: When the crew yells, "Brace!" one Ryanair flight attendant probably looks for the cameras. London tabloid The Sun (NSFW) alleges that flight attendant Edita Schindlerova (hopefully under a shorter name) moonlights in porn – on video and the web. The sexy 22-year-old also makes an appearance in the airline's 2009 calendar. The sultry stewardess wore a bikini and a smear of grease in the ...Plane Answers: Inflight medical emergencies, tips for pilots and fifty years of jet transcons
Jan 26th, 2009 at 10:00AM: Welcome to Gadling's feature, Plane Answers, where our resident airline pilot, Kent Wien, answers your questions about everything from takeoff to touchdown and beyond. Have a question of your own? Ask away! John asks about medical emergencies: What do you do in case of medical emergency during mid flight? If for example, a person has too much anxiety and can't calm themselves down, or has a ...Galley Gossip: Boeing Boeing grounded
Jan 6th, 2009 at 1:30PM: January 4, 2009 was a very sad day on Broadway in New York City. While it is said that all good things must come to an end, does that really have to include the critically acclaimed Broadway show, Boeing Boeing? I mean this was one trip I didn't want to end. Ever! But when the doors finally closed and the lights went to black, I was there (along with a full house) to say Buh-bye to an era of ...Galley Gossip: Where did the service go?
Dec 30th, 2008 at 10:30AM:
Recently I read an interesting article in the New York Times, Up, Up, and Go Away, about an ex flight attendant who worked for TWA in the 1970's when flight attendants were known as stewardesses and stewardesses were as glamorous as movie stars and passengers were treated like royalty and flying was..well...just better - in every way possible! The stewardess featured in the article above wrote ...Interview with a Retro Stewardess
Dec 24th, 2008 at 6:00PM: On my way home to Minneapolis for the holidays, I read this terrific New York Times article by Ann Hood on the good ol' days of flying. "I put on my apron with my name across the top, and I smiled at the people who had saved up their money, put on their Sunday best, and chosen T.W.A. It was not so long ago that flying had that civility, that glamour, when flying through the sky really felt like ...Fake airline commercial: Fantasy in the sky
Sep 16th, 2008 at 10:30AM:
Yesterday Scott gave us vintage airline commercials. Real commercials. Here is a video of what looks like a real vintage commercial, but it's fake. You'll figure it out in a second or two. As sexist as I think this is, and I do, I laughed. Perhaps, because it captured the tone of commercials and an earlier era--not that flight attendants have ever been this way.
It would be fun to see a ...
Air New Zealand Takes In-Flight Service to a New Level
Jul 23rd, 2008 at 12:00PM: These days, airline passengers expect the worst when they embark on a flight. Yes, they will still get a free bag of salted peanuts, but often have to pay $5 for a beverage to wash them down. Not all airlines are toning down the in-flight offerings, however. Air New Zealand is doing just the opposite by introducing a new breed of air service personnel, the airborne concierge. According to Scott ...Flight attendant wins trip into space -- on Rocketplane!
Jul 17th, 2008 at 6:00PM: I thought that Rocketplane was a show on the cartoon network until I read an article this morning reporting that a French Flight Attendant won a trip into sub-orbit with the galactic airline. First, about the flight attendant: Mathilde Epron was working her daily flight schedule when she grabbed a quick Kit Kat snack, tossed the wrapper in the garbage and went on about her normal duties. Suddenly, ...Ryanair Flight Attendants like you've never seen them before
Nov 19th, 2007 at 8:48PM: Hey guys, ever have fantasies involving naughty stewardesses? Here's something to add to your Christmas wish list: The flight attendants of infamous low-cost European airline Ryanair have shed their usual blue uniforms in favour of something skimpier in a new promotional item for the airline -- they're posing in teeny tiny bikinis for a new calendar, which will be sold on Ryanair flights for ...
