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...long ago National Airlines began a $9.5 million advertising campaign aimed at personalizing its service. Ads picturing a lovely smiling stewardess proclaimed: "I'm Margie [or Nancy, or Cheryl, or Barbara]. Fly Me." National painted the girls' names on the noses of some of its planes-like World War II bombers-and passed out "Fly Me" buttons for the girls to wear on their uniforms...
Some National stewardesses decided that the idea amounted to a personal rather than a commercial proposition, and was a blatant sexist pitch. Three of them on a Halloween flight from New York to Miami displayed a cardboard cutout of a wrinkled witch in boots and military-type jacket with a Fly Me button. "If the ads would just say, 'Fly with me,' " complained Stewardess Ilene Held, "we'd be asking people to fly as part of our airline. It's the live stuff that gets to men, that makes them think...
...been in constant motion. He prides himself on putting in only one day a week in Chicago, spending the rest of his time roaming the U.A.L. network from Honolulu to New York. He often turns up at United hangars and airport kitchens, shakes hands with startled baggagemen and quizzes stewardesses about flight service and their complaints. Riding coach recently on a U.A.L. flight, he voluntarily handed over $1.50 to a stewardess who had been worrying whether to charge him for a drink. "Why not?" he said. "The company needs the money...
...quieter, more pollution-free and more efficient. Meals served aboard the DC-10, some 747s and Lockheed's forthcoming L-1011 are stored and warmed in a galley located below the passenger level, in the plane's cargo hold. When the food is ready for serving, a stewardess will put it on electric elevators connecting the two levels. Among the most important new superjets: THE MCDONNELL DOUGLAS DC-IO was put into service last month by American and United airlines. By next year, it will also be flying for National, Continental, Northwest and Delta. Designed to carry...
...16th followed the next day, when a National Airlines DC-8 carrying 83 passengers and crew was skyjacked to Havana. A stewardess and one passenger were slightly wounded when the skyjacker's gun went...