Air Travel: In the 1930s, passenger service was enhanced with the first flight attendants, registered nurses who were hired by United Airlines/Boeing Air Transport. Other airlines soon followed, hiring nurses to serve as "stewardesses" on most of their flights. The requirement to be a registered nurse was relaxed at the start of World War II, as many nurses enlisted into the armed forces.
Disagree.
My mother was one of these registered nurses who became a fight attendant.
She saved and scrimped, and worked had to go through nurses training, to achieve this goal.
She came from a very poor family of 10, from a one store town in northern Saskatchewan.
It wasn't only for rich people, it was for achievers too.
