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Article: Role of Flight Attendants Has Changed Significantly over Time.
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
- Article date:
- April 14, 2002
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By L.M. Sixel, Houston Chronicle Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Apr. 14--In the early days of aviation, flight attendants were nurses, ready to step in if high altitudes sickened passengers.
But it didn't take long for medical necessity to take a back seat and for marketing to take over. The stewardessess -- what they were called back then -- had to be single, attractive and thin, fitting the image of glamour and excitement that the airlines skillfully created.
By the 1960s, those beautiful flight attendants were hawked like sex symbols. One airline advertised that some lucky man men may just find a wife while flying on business. Another ...