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 Hainan Airlines Company recruits stewardesses in Qingdao, east China's Shandong Province, on March 4, 2010, attracting 600 pretty girls. (Source: CFP) The Hainan Airlines Company recruits ...

The big jets, the exotic cities and the layovers in the Lisbons and the Rios are behind him now. And so is the fast, loose life of an airline pilot. Truman W. “Slim” Cummings remembers them as good ...

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 ...

There was an era when travelling by plane meant dressing in your finest, pulling on the white gloves, and expecting to be swathed in the kind of glamour and top-notch service that you’d find in New ...

I just returned to NYC from Madrid. I slept all the way here, so I barely noticed the cramped seats, the bad food, the terrible movie, and the bad uniforms of the stewardesses. Back in 1979, I would ...