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Article: ASSOCIATION OF FLIGHT ATTENDANTS CELEBRATES 65TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE FLIGHT ATTENDANT PROFESSION
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- PR Newswire
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- May 10, 1995
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WASHINGTON, May 10 /PRNewswire/ -- On May 15,1930, a young woman, a nurse, stepped onto a 12-passenger Boeing tri-motor bound for Chicago from San Francisco. At that moment, Ellen Church became the founder of the flight attendant profession which has transformed and evolved from the "sky girls" of the 1930s to today's "safety professionals." It is this legacy the Association of Flight Attendants, AFL-CIO, celebrates as it looks back at the past 65 years.
Once Ellen Church persuaded Boeing Air Transport, which later became United Airlines, to use women as cabin attendants, she trained seven others to join her on the airline's Chicago-to-San Francisco route. The ...