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 ...

(KPIX 5) -- 40 years ago, a heroic mission unfolded at Tan Son Nhut Air Base near Saigon, a few days before the North Vietnamese army and the Viet Cong took over South Vietnam on April 30, 1975. It ...

“Fly With Me” tells the story of the pioneering young women who became flight attendants at a time when single women were unable to order a drink, eat alone in a restaurant, own a credit card or get a ...

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 ...

Air France stewardesses have caused an uproar over new uniform rules that will require them to wear headscarves on flights from Paris to Tehran when the airline resumes services there later this month ...

A look at both the glamorous and the grim sides of life as a Pan Am stewardess. Oct. 12, 2011 &#151. -- Did flight attendants really have to wear girdles back in the day? Yes, indeed, says Valerie ...

It could be the Mexican remake of the Calendars Girls - just swap the Women’s Institute ladies portrayed in 2003 for slightly more glamorous Latina flight attendants. Ten stewardesses with troubled ...

Its 6th season kicking off Sunday, April 7th, AMC's Mad Men has occasionally portrayed the glamour and excitement of air travel and the seemingly wild and carefree lives led by that era’s female ...

Cash-strapped air stewardesses in Japan are reportedly turning to prostitution in order to supplement decreasing wages. Several unnamed flight attendants have been quoted in the Shukan Post claiming ...

The modern commercial aviation industry traces its roots and routes back to the 1930s, when a glut of then-futuristic metal planes, fresh home from war, were put to use by countries all over the world ...