In 1955, Pan Am hired an initial class of 20 “Nisei” or second generation Japanese Americans to service flights between San ...
Flight attendant Ilona Zahn was less than impressed when she first met pilot Ian Duncan. It was 1970. Ilona was working the first class cabin on the Pan American World Airways flight from Rome to ...
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Before sacrificing her life to shield children from the hail of gunfire, flight attendant Neerja Bhanot spent 16 hours ...
Guest blogger Ryan Murphy was a San Francisco-based flight attendant for United Airlines and elected representative of the Association of Flight Attendants, AFL-CIO. He has a PhD in American Studies ...
Alice Lemieux Jacobsen, who had been the stewardess on Pan American Airway's first around-the-world flight, died in Ojai, Calif., on Feb. 18. She was 91 years old and former resident of Ridgefield The ...
But, like many former Pan Am stewardesses, they’ve been caught up in the buzz surrounding the new show — digging through old boxes, unearthing memories and reaching out to one another. A newcomer to ...
A recent graduate of Penn State, I had been teaching art in Lower Merion, Penn., and was asked to dance with my students during the prom. Something wasn't right. I had to get out of Philadelphia. I ...