A vintage flight attendant job listing from the 1940s has shocked people with its ‘absurd’ requirements.
Posted in the Reddit forum ‘OldSchoolRidiculous’, the advert for Transcontinental & Western Air, Inc, (TWA) firstly required attendants to be aged between 21 to 26.
Next on the list were height requirements. Wannabe cabin crew had to be taller than 5’2 and shorter than 5’6 to qualify.
And if that sounds outrageous enough, the airline also stipulated that crew must weigh between 100 and 130 pounds.
Applicants also needed to have one year of college education or be a registered nurse to be accepted and have good vision.
And there’s still one more shocking requirement. Cabin crew ‘must be single’, states the advert.
One shocked person comments: ‘Were they looking for absurdly small woman or is this one of those people used to be smaller on average sorta things? Pretty gross still, a 100 pound adult woman?!’
Another person says: ‘My mother was hired as a hostess by TWA despite not having had a year of college or being a registered nurse. She was what the 40’s called “personality plus!”‘
A vintage flight attendant job listing from the 1940s has shocked people with its ‘absurd’ requirements
Posted in the Reddit forum ‘OldSchoolRidiculous’ , the advert for Transcontinental & Western Air, Inc, (TWA) firstly required attendants to be aged between 21 to 26
They explain: ‘In my mother’s case, “personality plus” comprised indiscriminate effervescence that always favoured males. Hostesses were routinely terminated upon marriage, or upon reaching the age of 32.
‘TWA even stated bluntly: “If you haven’t found anyone by that age, we don’t want you either”.
‘My mother lived on black coffee, skim milk and four packs of cigarettes a day when she was a TWA hostess, as well as afterwards, I recall.’
Transcontinental & Western Air was a USA airline that operated from 1930 until it was acquired by American Airlines in 2001.
Shockingly, the person even claims that their mother was ‘suspended briefly’ after gaining three pounds.
Meanwhile, another commenter questions whether the airline was ‘specifically looking for a college dropout’.
However, another person explains: ‘Getting hired as a flight attendant was considered an excellent reason to drop out of college back in the day, for someone who’d prefer to travel and earn a modest salary rather than pay tuition and study.’
Another resurfaced United Airlines advert has similar requirements asking wannabe applicants to be ‘unmarried’, between 5’2 and 5’7 and not weighing anymore than 135 pounds.
Another resurfaced United Airlines advert has similar requirements asking wannabe applicants to be ‘unmarried’
The advert also states that the ‘starting pay is good’ and flight attendants will get ‘regular raises’.
it comes after a flight attendant shared two forms of common passenger behaviour that ‘send her over the edge’ when she’s having a particularly ‘bad day.’
Dallas-based air hostess Cher Killough, who has worked in the industry for six years, recently took to TikTok to highlight disruptive in-flight habits that often leave her ‘clenching’ her jaw.
Sharing a video to her page, @cherdallas, the cabin crew noted she becomes frustrated when a passenger ignores crucial safety instructions because a previous flight attendant either turned a blind eye or allowed them to do so.
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