Wondering why my flight attendants never look like this

Emirates, Singapore and Air Malaysia still roll like that.

Virgin Air before the Alaska purchase as well.

I prefer light in the loafers @Shane with a lisp, and 60 year old battle ax Barbara who is 40 lbs. overweight and hates her ex husband and every single customer.

When they (rightfully so) changed the rules so that the airlines couldn't push you out of the flight attendant job at 32 years of age, the older stews came back and the change was pretty stark. It went from young and vibrant to older and sometimes cranky. By the 90's it was no longer a glamor job for young females and the planes became so big and cramped that travel turned into a nightmare.

Flying into Taiwan in the 80's was something. The women were incredibly attractive and nice, and the aircraft had room even in the economy class section at the back of the plane. First class was incredible service. On one trip I played blackjack all night with the three first class attendants after everyone was asleep. Was so hung over the next day I just wanted to hit the hotel and sleep.

Flew into Seoul on a 747 and in the circular bar upstairs I played back gammon with the two attendants all night long. Very attractive women but they had time to hang with passengers back then. If you like Asian women (as Derek surely does), that was the place to fly to back in the day. Every one of those women were 9's.

I have over 8 million flight miles over my career and I absolutely hate to fly any more. Its just a shit show, although I don't miss the smoking on a plane (stopped in about 1987 I believe), everything else about the whole experience has eroded to shit.