If you loved Ann Hood’s Fly Girl and Julie Cook’s Come Fly The World: The Jet-Age Story of the Women of Pan Am, you’ll be awed by True Tales of TWA Flight Attendants. The golden time of travel by air promised a lifetime of glamour and adventure for gorgeous young, single women eager to travel the world. No airline could offer more thrills or glamour more than Trans World Airlines. TWA gave a glamorous jet-setting lifestyle for flight attendants. They also had the chance to travel to exotic locations like London, Paris, Rome, Hong Kong and Bombay. The flight attendants appeared on television and in films, and interacted with the wealthy and famous including Elizabeth Taylor and John F. Kennedy Jr., to presidents and Popes as well as dressed in stylish uniforms made by clothing designers such as Oleg Cassini and Ralph Lauren. Get this book on https://www.amazon.com/TRUE-TALES-TWA-FLIGHT-ATTENDANTS-ebook/dp/B0B8XTTTX7/.
A Glamourous Lifestyle Often Came With A Price
Through the 60s and the 1970s, TWA did not accept more than one percent of applicants for flight attendants, making it more difficult to gain admission than Harvard. Additionally, a career in aviation provided the highest quality of education that money could not purchase. TWA flight attendants could cook chateaubriand medium rare, deliver a baby at 35,000 feet, and survive a plane crash–all the while immaculately dressed from their never-a-strand-out-of-place hairstyles, all the way down to their mandatory high heeled shoes. However, the glamourous lifestyle of the life of a TWA flight attendant often came with a price.
A Lifetime Of Glamour And Excitement
The golden time of air travel offered a lifetime of glamour and excitement for gorgeous young, single women who wanted to travel the world and none of the airlines could offer more thrills or glamour more than Trans World Airlines. TWA offered a glamorous Jet-set lifestyle to flight attendants as well as the luxury of a jet-set lifestyle – and the possibility of traveling to exotic destinations such as London, Paris, Rome, Hong Kong, and Bombay. The flight attendants appeared on television and in films, and were able to interact with the wealthy and well-known, dressed in stylish uniforms made by clothing designers such as Oleg Cassini and Ralph Lauren. in the 60s TWA was able to accept less than 1percent of applicants for the position of flight attendants, making it harder to obtain than Harvard. Furthermore, a flight career provided the highest quality of education that money couldn’t purchase.
A Diary Style Memoir
TWA flight attendants could cook chateaubriand medium rare, deliver a baby at 35,000 feet, and survive a plane crash — all the while immaculately dressed from their never-a-strand-out-of-place hairstyles, all the way down to their mandatory high heeled shoes. However, the glamorous lifestyle of an TWA flight attendant could come with a price. Truly Tales of TWA Flight Attendants is a diary style memoir featuring the experiences of many flight attendants and full of fascinating behind-the-scenes look at the glamour, excitement and the struggles of young women while traveling around the globe with TWA during this exciting period in the history of airlines.
Final Words
This book is a funny and honest journey across this Golden Age of Flying with those who are the best at it, flight attendants on the most famous airline ever to have flew. This is not a book to be overlooked. The numerous and engaging stories are beautifully written and possess an undisputed ring of authenticity and authenticity. It is easy to read is an understatement.
