It is a challenge to believe that there was ever a time…

I can't stop watching 'Pan Am.' When I was growing up, my father worked as an engineer in Turkey, and we always flew Pan…

— Gayle King

Maybe careers aren’t something you can really plan for. They just sort of happen, like brown eyes or flat feet. I took one of…

— Susan Juby

My grandmother was, back when they called them 'stewardesses,' a flight attendant. I actually had a ball wearing that little uniform and making sure…

— Erika Christensen

The air is annoyingly potted with a multitude of minor vertical disturbances which sicken the passengers and keep us captives of our seat belts.…

— Ernest K. Gann

“When I started researching airline stewardesses, I found that the topic made for amusing cocktail party banter. “You’re writing a book about that? Wow,…

— Victoria Vantoch

Stewardesses were a joke to many of us coming of age in the liberated Sixties. They were no joke in the women's movement that…

— Cathleen Schine

I loved the idea of doing something that has this misconception about what stewardesses were. And, I also love the idea that these girls…

— Christina Ricci

Stewardesses are still paid so little that in many cases, new hires qualify for food stamps.

— Patricia Ireland

In Japan, you get on the bullet train or the airplane, and I loved the little speeches the stewardesses would do. They even do…

— Beck

You don't have to be Willy Loman about it. But, "Airline food is crazy. Hey, what's with these rent-a-cars?" or you go up and…

— Jay Mohr

[Airline food] is the tiniest food I've ever seen in my entire life. Any kind of meat that you get - chicken, steak, anything…

— Ellen DeGeneres

England manufactures most of the world's airline food, as well as all the food you ever ate in your junior-high-school cafeteria.

— Dave Barry

I'm not opposed to talking about airline food.

— Tig Notaro

Airline food is not intended for human consumption. It's intended as a form of in-flight entertainment, wherein the object is to guess what it…

— Dave Barry

If the Wright brother were alive today Wilbur would have to fire Orville to reduce costs.

— Herb Kelleher