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Open Image Modal19th January 1950: Trainee air hostess, Claire Swan, during a training session in a BOAC mock aircraft. (credit:Getty Images)
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Open Image ModalA BOAC air stewardess collects equipment from the aircraft catering store before a flight from London Airport. (credit:Getty Images)
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Open Image ModalStewardess in Le Bourget (Seine-Saint-Denis), about 1945. (credit:Getty Images)
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Open Image ModalA male flight attendant walks with his arms linked with two female flight attendants in front of a small plane in the 1940's. (credit:Getty Images)
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Open Image Modal Inside the cockpit of a de Havilland 'Comet Inside the cockpit of a de Havilland 'Comet', 16 May 1962. 'This is what it is like at the controls of a Comet 4 aeroplane. On the left is John Cunningham, chief test pilot for de Havilland. (credit:Getty Images)
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Open Image ModalEnglish model and actress Twiggy (left) with Christopher Gable (1940 - 1998) in the cockpit of a biplane laden with chorus girls in a scene from the fim version of Sandy Wilson's musical 'The Boy Friend', directed by Ken Russell, 1971. (credit:Getty Images)
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Open Image ModalNBC News' Foreign Correspondent James Robinson in Ocotber 1958. (credit:Getty Images)
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Open Image ModalAn elderly couple waves and smiles from an airplane ramp. (credit:Getty Images)
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Open Image ModalKukla the puppet, Burr Tillstrom (puppeteer), Ollie the puppet on a Northeast Airlines air mail plane. (credit:Getty Images)
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Open Image ModalPreparing lunch on the Imperial Airways aeroplane 'Scylla', 19 November 1936. Photograph by James Jarche showing the galley on the Imperial Airways aeroplane 'Scylla'. Built by Shorts at Rochester, the 39-passenger 'Scylla' flew for the first time on 26 March 1934. Together with its sister aeroplane 'Syrinx' it was delivered to Croydon in June where it entered service almost immediately on the London to Paris route, setting new standards of comfort. Imperial Airways Limited was formed by the British government on 31 March 1924, after a government report recommended that Britain's interests in commercial air transport would be best served by merging the larger existing aircraft companies. The governments primary motivation for the merger was the need to carry mail throughout the empire. (credit:Getty Images)
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Open Image ModalWaiter service aboard Imperial Airways 'Scylla' during its flight from London to Paris, circa 1935. (credit:Getty Images)
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Open Image ModalPassengers enjoying a drink and a game of cards in the cabin of an Imperial Airways plane in 1936. (credit:Getty Images)
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Open Image ModalDay cabin of an Imperial Airways flying boat, most likely of the Short Empire class, in August 1936. (credit:Getty Images)
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Open Image ModalA sleeping berth on an Imperial Airways aircraft in March 1937. (credit:Getty Images)
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Open Image ModalBaby travels by plane in New York In July 1945. (credit:Getty Images)
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Open Image ModalA Douglas DC-3 airliner of Eastern Airlines ('The Great Silver Fleet') seen through the window of a viewing gallery at an airport, circa 1945. (credit:Getty Images)
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Open Image ModalAir hostess Patricia Palley attends to passengers in the decorated cabin of a Pan-American air liner over the Atlantic on December 23, 1946. (credit:Getty Images)
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Open Image ModalHigh angle view of passengers boarding an airplane, date unknown. (credit:Getty Images)
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Open Image ModalA stewardess serving drinks whilst passengers have lunch aboard a BEA Vickers Viking passenger plane, date unknown. (credit:Getty Images)
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Open Image ModalA man and three women wait to board a ramp at the tail of a Northwest airplane as a stewardess looks on; undated. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
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Open Image ModalCabin crew adjusting seats in an airplane, date unknown. (credit:Getty Images)
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Open Image ModalA female instructor stands at a chalkboard, pointing to a chalk diagram of an airplane while female students take notes at their desks during a stewardess training school, 1950. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
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Open Image ModalLuggage being unloaded from airplane, circa 1950s. (credit:Getty Images)
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Open Image ModalA projector being fitted into a United Airlines plane for the benefit of passengers who will be shown in-flight movies, circa 1950s. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
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Open Image ModalStewardess serving passengers, date unknown. (credit:Getty Images)
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Open Image ModalAn Aer Lingus passenger plane at Dublin Airport at Collinstown near Dublin, date unknown. (credit:Getty Images)
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Open Image ModalMan refueling a propeller airplane, date unknown. (credit:Getty Images)
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Open Image ModalPassengers relaxing on an airline flight, circa 1950. (Photo by Keystone View Company/FPG/Archive Photos/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
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Open Image ModalAmerican magazine publisher Hugh Hefner and his companion, American model and actor Barbi Benton, relax on a bed while a stewardess attends to them in the private quarters of Hefner's DC-9 jetliner, 'The Big Bunny' en route to Heathrow, date unknown. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
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Open Image ModalHugh Hefner, American editor, publisher and founder of Playboy magazine, and his girlfriend Barbi Benton are welcomed by 'Bunny Girls' from the London Playboy Club, on their arrival at Heathrow Airport aboard his private DC 9 jetliner, which bears the Playboy logo. One Bunny Girl is wearing a Union Jack costume. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
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Open Image ModalBOAC stewardesses peering through the port holes of the mock-up Jumbo Jet 747 at London's Heathrow Airport during training for the introduction of transatlantic Jumbo flights, date unknown. (credit:Getty Images)
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Open Image ModalAerial view of five airplanes at an airport, San Francisco International Airport, San Francisco, date unknown. (credit:Getty Images)
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Open Image ModalA Pan American World Airways flight attendant preparing in-flight meals in the galley of an airliner, circa 1950. (Photo by Archive Photos/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
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Open Image ModalPassengers boarding an airplane, Pittsburgh International Airport, date unknown. (credit:Getty Images)
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Open Image ModalNew York's East Side Airlines Terminal, which has 15 bus docks to take passengers to the city's various airports, circa 1955. (Photo by Orlando /Three Lions/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
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Open Image ModalA bus in the bus docks at New York's East Side Airlines Terminal. The docks are open on one side to permit exhaust fumes to escape, circa 1955. (Photo by Orlando /Three Lions/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
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Open Image ModalPassengers checking in at New York's East Side Airlines Terminal, circa 1955. (Photo by Orlando /Three Lions/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
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Open Image ModalSigns for New York's three major airports, International (Idlewild), Newark and La Guardia, at New York's East Side Airlines Terminal, which provides rapid transit between the airports and the city, circa 1955. (Photo by Orlando /Three Lions/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
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Open Image ModalPassengers checking in their baggage at New York's East Side Airlines Terminal, circa 1955. (Photo by Orlando /Three Lions/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
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Open Image ModalPassengers checking in their baggage at New York's East Side Airlines Terminal, circa 1955. (Photo by Orlando /Three Lions/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
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Open Image ModalNew York's East Side Airlines Terminal which operates on a 24 hour basis to provide transportation to every flight leaving from the city's various airports, around 1955. (Photo by Orlando /Three Lions/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
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Open Image ModalFred Astaire and Gene Kelly coming off the plane from Los Angeles at Idlewild Airport, near New York, between 1950 and 1955. (Photo by Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
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Open Image ModalSome of the TWA (Trans World Airline) air hostesses selected to attend a course at the TWA headquarters in Kansas City, Missouri. They have been instructed in grooming, charm and poise, reading, conversational French and entertainment, and received vital inoculations, date unknown. (Photo by Bert Garai/Keystone Features/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
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Open Image ModalA TWA pilot and stewardess greets the passengers coming off the plane, ca.1950s, Cincinnati, Ohio. (Photo by Marsh Photographers/Cincinnati Museum Center/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
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Open Image ModalA portable altar used to deliver mass to passengers and crew who may have missed mass at church at Idlewild Airport, date unknown. (Photo by Orlando /Three Lions/Getty Images)
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Open Image ModalLufthansa flight attendants Jutta Kaemmerer (seated left) and Mascha Junge being served by Pan Am's Jerry Rand and Gertrude Vasel at the Pan American World Airways stewardess school in Long Island circa 1960. (Photo by Pictorial Parade/Archive Photos/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
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Open Image ModalFlight attendant serving coffee to passengers seated in a lounge aboard a Braniff International airplane, late 1960s. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
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Open Image ModalAmerican singer Tony Bennett serenades TWA air hostess Gabriele Lehman prior to flying from New York to London on April 14, 1961. (Photo by Archive Photos/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
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Open Image ModalHeathrow Airport in London, July 1967. (Photo by Tim Graham/Fox Photos/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
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Open Image ModalAn Esso truck refuelling a Pan-American aircraft, July 1967. (Photo by Tim Graham/Fox Photos/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
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Open Image ModalFaye Dunaway posing on the boarding dock of a Pan-American plane before departing for London for a vacation, John F. Kennedy International Airport, New York City in November 1967. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
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Open Image ModalThe interior design of the new L-1011 jetliner passenger cabin with overhead luggage compartments, August 1968. (Photo by Alan Band/Fox Photos/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
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Open Image ModalStewardesses on Southwest Airlines in Texas stand in front of planes belonging to the airline. (Photo by Alan Band/Keystone/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
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Open Image ModalStewardesses working for Southwest Airlines of Texas must be able to wear hot pants and kinky leather boots or they don't get the job. In accordance with the airline's motto, 'sex sells seats' interviewees are selected on the strength of their legs and their face. Drinks served during flights have names such as 'Passion Punch' and 'Love Potion'. Photo circa 1972. (Photo by Alan Band/Keystone/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
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Open Image ModalMuslim passengers waiting for flights at Terminal 3, Heathrow Airport, London, facing Mecca for prayers, March 1977 (Photo by Graham Morris/Evening Standard/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
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Open Image ModalA line-up of some of the air stewardesses who attend to passengers on board the supersonic jet the 'Concorde', each one from a different airline. They are standing in front of a scale model of the aircraft. (Photo by Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
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Open Image ModalA Pan American (Pan Am) airhostess serving champagne in the first class cabin of a Boeing 747 jumbo jet, date unknown. (Photo by Tim Graham/Getty Images)
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Open Image ModalA steward and stewardess serving first-class passengers with drinks and refreshments on board a Boeing 747, date unknown. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)
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Open Image ModalPassengers relaxing on the sleeper seats in the new Comet 4 during a demonstration flight at Hatfield. The plane, which is fitted out in accordance with an interior decor scheme designed for BOAC aircraft by Gaby Schreiber, flew from New York to London in under six and a half hours, date unknown. (Photo by Douglas Miller/Keystone/Getty Images)
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Open Image ModalBritish European Airways latest commercial air liner is the Vickers V 700 Viscount, seen here at Northolt airport, date unknown. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)
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Open Image Modal A lounge compartment on an airliner, designed by Henry Dreyfuss, date unknown. (Photo by Orlando /Three Lions/Getty Images)
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Open Image ModalA passenger in the ladies' powder room on board the world's first jet airliner service. The Comet flight is bound for South Africa; date unknown. (Photo by PNA Rota/Getty Images)
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Open Image ModalStewards serving passengers on board an aeroplane, date unknown. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)