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 ...

At a time when women were expected to stay home with the kids, the 1950s airline stewardess was in a unique position. On the one hand, she doted on her male passengers, upholding America’s ...

In the early 1970s, as the women’s movement was in full swing, its impact was being felt everywhere… but nowhere more than the airplane cabin. Stewardesses, though they might be feeling the thrill of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Art by Tania Castro-Daunais. Source images from Wikimedia, NYU Tamiment Library, Kathleen Heenan. When the first widely-circulated issue of the pioneering feminist magazine, Ms., hit newsstands in ...

In 1938, TWA stewardesses were honored for each having completed a quarter-million miles or more of flying. Delta Air Transport Heritage Museum Air & Space contributing editor Stephan Wilkinson and ...

(KPIX 5) -- 40 years ago, a heroic mission unfolded at Tan Son Nhut Air Base near Saigon, a few days before the North Vietnamese army and the Viet Cong took over South Vietnam on April 30, 1975. It ...