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Britain’s Oldest Flight Attendant Retires at 65
Ryan Boyd February 28, 2017
South Lanarkshire’s Charmaine McCall-Hagan, 65, is finally retiring from her long career as a flight attendant, finishing with a final Loganair flight from Shetland to Edinburgh. Beginning her career in 1973 with British Airways, McCall-Hagan has attended to royalty aboard flights and survived a hijacking attempt in 2000, during which Captain Bill Hagan (who later became her husband) jabbed his fingers into the eyes of the would-be hijacker.
“I’ve had a fantastic career and when you think about it I can’t go on forever – I must be the oldest stewardess in Britain,” McCall-Hagan said. “I’m just embarrassed about all the fuss.”
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[Photo: Loganair/Charmaine McCall-Hagan]
65 ??, There are many flight attendants still out there a lot older.
That would be Betty Nash working for American Airlines. She was 80 when CNN interviewed her in Dec 2016.
Unlike Pilots, I don't think there is an age requirement for US based Flight Attendants, as sometimes it really shows on the international and premium flight locales.
Yes a long career, the longest in the UK as until recent times they had hard retirement requirements for F/A's (which I suppose is why she finished flying for Loganair, rather than BA. However she is just a spring chicken compared to many US F/As flying for the big three. They each have active F/A's that were working as F/A's when this woman was born!