Ah, to be a woman in a male-dominated industry! During a hearing regarding amendments to Minnesota's safe and sick time law, first officer Laura Haynor introduced herself as a pilot for Delta. In his ...
When LIFE ran a cover story in August 1958 on women that the magazine dubbed “Glamor Girls of the Air,” a career as an “air hostess” was still a relatively new pursuit. The way that LIFE described ...
When I became a stewardess with Pan American World Airways in 1962 I set a goal for myself: To see as much of the world as possible and to visit at least 100 countries. Pan Am was exclusively an ...
I was an airline stewardess more than 50 years ago. Watching ABC's new television show "Pan Am" on Sunday nights at 10 about the Pan Am stewardesses stirred up a lot of old memories. When I was flying ...
Today they’re flight attendants–no-nonsense individuals of either gender who indicate exits, dispense peanuts and discourage errant passengers from moving about the cabin. Once, though, they were more ...
Two new books trace the evolution of the industry from the perspective of women who worked in it. Credit...David Pollack/Corbis via Getty Images Supported by By Leslie Bennetts FLY GIRL: A Memoir, by ...
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