In what is likely the first book to fully explore the legacy of airline stewardesses%E2%80%94and, yes, the profession's pioneers still prefer that term over the more ...

Protesting flight attendants pasted this ad to their picket signs, asking, ‘Would you fire your mother at 32?’ American Airlines, 1968. In October 1958, a Boeing 707 airplane—the first commercially ...

WASHINGTON -- The airlines should be planning something special in the way of a celebration in 1960 -- it marks the 30th anniversary of the airline stewardess. It was in 1930 that Boeing Airlines ...

An anonymous flight attendant recently posted an open letter “to the flying public” on the Internet: “We’re sorry we have no pillows. We’re sorry we’re ...

Flight attendants in the 1960s were, to a one, young, thin, single women. But did they have to be in order to do the job? When stewardesses, as they were then called, began appealing to the newly ...

THE shatter-proof windows by my elbow quiver, a mute defiance to the air that rushes past them on the other side. It seems a pity that the approaching darkness can’t be so readily defied. For, far ...

Stewardess Anne Sweeney, a native of East Greenwich, readied herself for that flight. R&R trips tested the emotional capacity of the flight crews. Outbound from Vietnam, soldiers cheered when the ...

It wasn’t just the destination. It was the journey. For centuries, the only way to get from the Old World to the New was a long ocean voyage. And for the first half of the 20th century, the trip ...