When flying was cool

[bills_fan]

Here is the article.

 

Best line..."Stewardesses used to look like Bond Girls; now they look like your mother."

 

And the glamourous video, yes its SFW. Video

 

Man, I was born too late!

[b stein 22]

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I am a tea pot short and stout.

Here is my handle..............i forgot the rest.

[Chef Jim]

I always wondered why they changed who they hired as stewardesses (oh sorry, flight attendents). They're right, I'm going to be 50 in a few months and they look like MY mother.

[bbb]

I thought this was going to be this video that went viral today.

 

[Jim in Anchorage]

I thought this was going to be something REALY cool, like

[Booster4324]

I thought this was going to be this video that went viral today.

 

 

That does not look like my mother.

[Wacka]

On Southwest, they threw in a few jokes while doing the safety speech. I paid attention.

[BuffaloBill]

 

 

Man, I was born too late!

 

 

NBo the problem is thatyou were not born Hugh Heffner.

[bills_fan]

NBo the problem is thatyou were not born Hugh Heffner.

 

Isn't that everyone's problem? Well, except for Hugh of course!

[Marv's Neighbor]

I always wondered why they changed who they hired as stewardesses (oh sorry, flight attendents). They're right, I'm going to be 50 in a few months and they look like MY mother.

I wish I could tell you it was going to get better!

 

Truth is, most of them have lost most of their retirement benefits to Airline Bankruptcies and restructuring. The really senior people fly internationally. It's a grind working West USA to Asia but they only have to do it 3-6 times a month, depending on the length of the trips, so they're likely to hang in there as long as possible. Asia to East USA is even more flying hours so they would have less days to work. Even if they could afford to retire, they would lose most of their medical coverage, and that's a big item as you get older!

 

Even the foreign Flag Carriers are getting that way because their retirement ages keep moving up. That's why the riots in France, Greece etc.