A Day in the Life of an Air Hostess
Mar 14, 2016, 1:33 pm
#16
Join Date: Dec 2015
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You can laugh all the way to the florists where you can buy flowers for his soon to be funeral.
I will not be present. I would, however, like to know where he is laid as I might feel like dancing one Saturday night.
Drinks were always charged for back then. Food never. I might add that the Economy food was better than some of the First Class slop served now. We used to do a sort of Beef Stroganoff that was simply delicious - so delicious in fact that I got the recipe and still cook it at home.
I will not be present. I would, however, like to know where he is laid as I might feel like dancing one Saturday night.
Drinks were always charged for back then. Food never. I might add that the Economy food was better than some of the First Class slop served now. We used to do a sort of Beef Stroganoff that was simply delicious - so delicious in fact that I got the recipe and still cook it at home.
Were bassinets really hung from the overhead, as one appears to have been in the video?
Mar 14, 2016, 1:43 pm
#17
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I was watching a video on Youtube on the last day of TWA in late 2001 and it featured the FAs talking about their careers and the majority of them had started working with TWA in the mid to late 60s. It makes you wonder if you started working as FA out of school as an 18 year old back in 1965 you'd have reached the retirement age of 65 only in 2012.
I wonder what the longest FA career in BA history has been and when the longest-serving current FA started the job?
I wonder what the longest FA career in BA history has been and when the longest-serving current FA started the job?
Mar 14, 2016, 3:27 pm
#18
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The good old days.....when the food was usually a salad and there was hardly room on board to swing a cat. Don't remember having to pay for drink.I was only 4 right enough.
Looks as if the cabin crew had a great time though.....long layovers leapfrogging with the pilots on the beach and getting well paid for it. No wonder the fares back then were extortionate compared to today.
Looks as if the cabin crew had a great time though.....long layovers leapfrogging with the pilots on the beach and getting well paid for it. No wonder the fares back then were extortionate compared to today.
Mar 14, 2016, 3:28 pm
#19
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So much to live about that video, from the proper platform bus I used to take to school, the pilots uniform, a rip off of the RAF uniform, the seat pitch and the curtains at the Windows. Lovely way to fly :-)
Mar 15, 2016, 12:51 pm
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I'm just old enough to remember flying on one of those old propeller planes and how much nicer a jet was. To me, jet engines made all the difference in the world.
Mar 15, 2016, 3:31 pm
#24
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It's shocking that even when they first realised that there was a need to expand to LGW and STN that they didn't earmark more land near LHR for future expansion. Everything near the airport looks so green and empty!
Mar 17, 2016, 5:55 am
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Ah, I knew the uniform reminded me of something - RAF tropics! I wonder if they got them cheap as surplus?