I think its neat that they used to push back from the gate sometimes with pax still getting settled. The plane is usually not moving that fast and your more likely to get hurt eg fall down when a city bus pulls out of a bus stop than you are if a plane is moving out of a gate. Also the industry has gotten a lot more cautious eg with having flight attendants stay seated even often with the most miner turbulance.

I am not a fan at all of this crazy safety culture. We talked about it last Christmas with my stepbrothers, and how say in the 60's and 70's "danger" was more appreciated or something. They indicated growing up during this time you did not have this constant overriding quest to be "safe," and you often as a child did very dangerous things.


On one of my first flights in the late 80's it was stormy and nobody even thought for a fleeting moment that the crew would not serve snacks and drinks due to light to moderate chop. I would imagine only in truly severe turbulance would you not serve.

Somehow flying seems funner if we did not have this constant nag of every little thing re safety, eg pulling out of the gate before the last person might be fully settled. Also of course in early days you had the f/as being nurses because there was a real sense of danger and maybe it was somehow more romantic or more of an adventure back then?