"Add stewardesses to the need to be beautiful column....
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Really? I couldn't care less. If they can deliver the drink cart in a timely way, I wouldn't care if they looked like Ruth Gordon. I don't fly to stare at flight attendants.
I don't know if you've noticed, but there are a lot of older flight attendants these days. It doesn't matter to me what they look like.
I fly alot for business. Very high prices for last minute flights, lousy food (if any), screaming kids, etc, etc. The least the airlines can do is provide attractive stewardesses, like they used to, instead of grandma or some heavily perfumed poofer to serve me drinks.
Just my 2 cents.