BOAC cabin crew: compulsory retirement after 10 years
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BOAC cabin crew: compulsory retirement after 10 years
This article in the Guardian (from the Observer archives: 11 January, 1970) is quite interesting in its discussion of how - by 1970 - the 'jet age' had already begin to lose its sheen (But the piece soon brings us down to earth, asking whether it’s a ‘marvellous, relaxed way to travel’ or a ‘tense, irritating experience that will place more and more demands on the human-fatigue factor’.)
But buried in the article is this nugget: The airlines’ view towards guide dogs was rather draconian – they had to be ‘muzzled and drugged’. Still, that’s nothing compared with the treatment of air hostesses. BOAC had ‘compulsory retirement after 10 years’...
Is that really true? When was that phased out?
But buried in the article is this nugget: The airlines’ view towards guide dogs was rather draconian – they had to be ‘muzzled and drugged’. Still, that’s nothing compared with the treatment of air hostesses. BOAC had ‘compulsory retirement after 10 years’...
Is that really true? When was that phased out?
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I know there's an extra bit in the OP but I had a good Monday morning chuckle when I stopped reading after this bit.
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This article in the Guardian (from the Observer archives: 11 January, 1970) is quite interesting in its discussion of how - by 1970 - the 'jet age' had already begin to lose its sheen (But the piece soon brings us down to earth, asking whether it’s a ‘marvellous, relaxed way to travel’ or a ‘tense, irritating experience that will place more and more demands on the human-fatigue factor’.)
But buried in the article is this nugget: The airlines’ view towards guide dogs was rather draconian – they had to be ‘muzzled and drugged’. Still, that’s nothing compared with the treatment of air hostesses. BOAC had ‘compulsory retirement after 10 years’...
Is that really true? When was that phased out?
But buried in the article is this nugget: The airlines’ view towards guide dogs was rather draconian – they had to be ‘muzzled and drugged’. Still, that’s nothing compared with the treatment of air hostesses. BOAC had ‘compulsory retirement after 10 years’...
Is that really true? When was that phased out?
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I'll strip him of his all Honours if there's any repetition of such insolence. Cheeky Toad!
It will be the first Dishonourable Discharge in FT history. I'll find him in some sleazy bar be it in St Helier, Golf Course, or better yet a First Class Lounge and give him a piece of my hairbrush. Furthermore I will tell Mrs T8191 exactly the nature of our relationship.
Hell hath no Fury like a Pucci Prematurely Aged!
It will be the first Dishonourable Discharge in FT history. I'll find him in some sleazy bar be it in St Helier, Golf Course, or better yet a First Class Lounge and give him a piece of my hairbrush. Furthermore I will tell Mrs T8191 exactly the nature of our relationship.
Hell hath no Fury like a Pucci Prematurely Aged!
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What!? You hussy! For many years you consistently told CIHY, HIDDY, and myself that we were the only ones. Now I read that you were carrying on with T8191 behind our backs - that’s not one, not two, not three, but four toy boys. No wonder you had to retire at 55 - you must have been exhausted!
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Drawing a parallel with UK Military at the time, a mix of commitment to company rather than spouse, and the likelhood of pregnancy. It was the way of the world back then. Why invest in staff that could quit at a moment’s notice?
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What!? You hussy! For many years you consistently told CIHY, HIDDY, and myself that we were the only ones. Now I read that you were carrying on with T8191 behind our backs - that’s not one, not two, not three, but four toy boys. No wonder you had to retire at 55 - you must have been exhausted!
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What!? You hussy! For many years you consistently told CIHY, HIDDY, and myself that we were the only ones. Now I read that you were carrying on with T8191 behind our backs - that’s not one, not two, not three, but four toy boys. No wonder you had to retire at 55 - you must have been exhausted!
Still I will never be your equal until I can walk down the street with a bald head and a beer gut, and still think I am sexy. Just because I live by the adage that if you can't be with the one you love, love the one you're with does not mean that you're in with any chance. Anyhow the last time you saw sixty-anything was on a Boarding Pass.
(This feels like a real BA Forum thread!)
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