The big question about ABC's "Pan Am," premiering after tons and tons of hype on Sunday night, is whether the show can afford to maintain the dazzling look of the premiere episode. Seriously. This ...

WASHINGTON -- The airlines should be planning something special in the way of a celebration in 1960 -- it marks the 30th anniversary of the airline stewardess. It was in 1930 that Boeing Airlines ...

In 2021, the so-called “golden age of travel”— or really any age of travel — seems about as mythical a concept as tracking down Bigfoot or spotting the Loch Ness Monster, but there was in fact a time ...

Today they’re flight attendants–no-nonsense individuals of either gender who indicate exits, dispense peanuts and discourage errant passengers from moving about the cabin. Once, though, they were more ...

It used to be in life that if you did something embarrassing - even if you did it on an epic, national scale - it could go away forever. A movie might play in theaters for a year, but when its release ...

Stewardess Anne Sweeney, a native of East Greenwich, readied herself for that flight. R&R trips tested the emotional capacity of the flight crews. Outbound from Vietnam, soldiers cheered when the ...

When the 1969 sexploitation film The Stewardesses went into wide release in 1971, it became one of the era's biggest box-office hits, for reasons entirely unrelated to acting or story. The ...

“Fly With Me” tells the story of the pioneering young women who became flight attendants at a time when single women were unable to order a drink, eat alone in a restaurant, own a credit card or get a ...

Here's some good news about the upcoming fall TV season: There will be marked increase in the number of actresses populating new series! But they appear to have packed lightly. Here's some good news ...

Its 6th season kicking off Sunday, April 7th, AMC's Mad Men has occasionally portrayed the glamour and excitement of air travel and the seemingly wild and carefree lives led by that era’s female ...

The modern commercial aviation industry traces its roots and routes back to the 1930s, when a glut of then-futuristic metal planes, fresh home from war, were put to use by countries all over the world ...