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PAR minimums were lower than an ILS back in the good old days!
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On 19 Apr 2007 13:02:20 -0700, Dave J wrote:
I'll also say this about the generation gap. I clearly missed the days when people dressed up to fly I'm old enough to remember the first time I saw a guy wearing a T-shirt get on an airplane with me. I blame Southwest Airlines for making air travel available to the proletariats. :-) -- Dallas |
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Dave J writes:
I'll also say this about the generation gap. I clearly missed the days when people dressed up to fly, or when flight attendants flirted with anybody. I don't know that there was ever a time when flight attendants routinely flirted with anyone, unless their employer requested it (not inconceivable in the old days). People dressed up because air travel was too expensive to be undertaken routinely, and so any trip on an airplane was a special occasion. However, during the same era, people dressed up a lot more for all sorts of occasions. As little as forty years ago, many American women still felt a need to wear gloves when going out. -- Transpose mxsmanic and gmail to reach me by e-mail. |
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Gig 601XL Builder writes:
I remember when almost all of them were women that you would want to have flirt with you. They are the same women today. -- Transpose mxsmanic and gmail to reach me by e-mail. |
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Dave J writes:
Ah! Maybe I'll read the book sometime. I have a feeling it'll have more realistic detail fir aviation junkies! It's out of print, unfortunately. I've been looking around for it for a while. I actually read it while on a domestic leg of an overseas flight on TWA--in first class, come to think of it. Today you'd probably be arrested for reading it on a plane. -- Transpose mxsmanic and gmail to reach me by e-mail. |
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Mxsmanic wrote:
Gig 601XL Builder writes: I remember when almost all of them were women that you would want to have flirt with you. They are the same women today. indeed. But we (macho chauvinistic pigs) were hoping that they would have retired by now and replaced by younger / attractive generations :-) ok, I am ducking now, --Sylvain |
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Sylvain writes:
indeed. But we (macho chauvinistic pigs) were hoping that they would have retired by now and replaced by younger / attractive generations :-) In the early days of aviation there were mostly young FAs because aviation was itself too young to produce old FAs, at least in any quantity. Now, decades later, there have been many thousands of FAs working for decades and so the number of older FAs with substantial seniority has greatly increased. For FAs, seniority is everything, since once one has learned to carry out the job competently, there are no other criteria of advancement (the job can only be done so well). Seniority is important for pilots, too, but there are other factors. Piloting is a job in which one learns indefinitely from experience, so that's a factor. Also, pilots are required to retire at a fairly young age, which prevents seniority from becoming too much of an issue. -- Transpose mxsmanic and gmail to reach me by e-mail. |
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