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Article: Flight attendant resumes pour in, despite turmoil in the airline industry.
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- Atlanta Journal-Constitution
- Article date:
- January 5, 2005
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Byline: Kirsten Tagami
Jan. 5--On summer days when Kandis Lovelace was a girl, she would lie on the roof of her parents' ranch-style home in Goodland, Kan., and daydream as she watched jets fly overhead.
She had never been in a plane, and air travel seemed exotic and exciting. Her parents were farmers, raising wheat and corn, and the family never had the money -- or the need -- to fly anywhere.
Now 25 and a flight attendant for AirTran Airways, Lovelace flies much more than most people. On Thanksgiving Day, for example, she was in the air for 13 hours, finally arriving in Flint, Mich., too late for even a hotel turkey dinner.
Despite ...