Flight Attendants ?

I operate on the principle that the only dumb question is the one that isn't ask. Having said that, my question is :

 

On a flight long enough to require the serving of at least one meal, how many Flt. Attendants are required to service X no. of passengers?

 

Proviso: I only fly propliners, so we're talking planes like the Connie, the Stratocruiser and the long range Douglas airliners. OK, I admit it, I'm stuck in the '50's and to be honest, I prefer to stay there.

I don't know that there's a mathematical formula for passengers vs Flight Attendants, or Stewardesses as they were called in the 50's. I know, my mother was a Pan Am Stew. In the 50's.

I do know the service then was MUCH different than it is now. With some good reasons, yes, but different. On long flights, for example, they would serve hot meals, with real, honest to goodness silverware and linen, hot towels at the end, and smoking was permitted. A lot of planes still have the ash-trays in the arms of the seats. The Stews would gladly give you soda, or a hot cuppa.

Nowadays, heck, try to get a box lunch on an 8 hour flight someplace. Soda? Sure, if you pay for it. I understand the loss of silverware, with the rise of psycho nut-cases hijacking aircraft, but heck, they seem to have quit even bothering with lunches, box or otherwise. And they crowd passengers in like cattle. Some even smell like cattle.

When I was young, I would wear a suit-n-tie to go to the airport to see my father off on a flight. He was a UAL pilot. Nowadays, a lot of folks show up barely dressed, I guess to make TSA happy. Still hard to get used to.

Sorry, not really much of an answer to your question...

Pat☺

I am old enough to remember the stewardesses wore miniskirts and were pretty and under 30!!!

Meal service has nothing to do with it.

 

The primary duty of flight attendants is to save your a$$ when the excrement hits the rotating blades.

 

Any other services they perform, such as meal and drink service, are done solely in an attempt to get you to buy another ticket on their airline. :pilot:

 

For Part 121 ops...

§121.391 Flight attendants.

 

(a) Except as specified in §121.393 and §121.394, each certificate holder must provide at least the following flight attendants on board each passenger-carrying airplane when passengers are on board:

 

(1) For airplanes having a maximum payload capacity of more than 7,500 pounds and having a seating capacity of more than 9 but less than 51 passengers—one flight attendant.

 

(2) For airplanes having a maximum payload capacity of 7,500 pounds or less and having a seating capacity of more than 19 but less than 51 passengers—one flight attendant.

 

(3) For airplanes having a seating capacity of more than 50 but less than 101 passengers—two flight attendants.

 

(4) For airplanes having a seating capacity of more than 100 passengers—two flight attendants plus one additional flight attendant for each unit (or part of a unit) of 50 passenger seats above a seating capacity of 100 passengers.

 

peace,

the Bean

Meal service has nothing to do with it.

 

The primary duty of flight attendants is to save your a$$ when the excrement hits the rotating blades.

 

Any other services they perform, such as meal and drink service, are done solely in an attempt to get you to buy another ticket on their airline. :pilot:

 

For Part 121 ops...

 

 

peace,

the Bean

 

Nicely done. That's why the B1900 doesn't have a flight attendant. Nor, did any other smaller turboprop. It's payload capacity is less that 7,500lbs.

 

(Well actually the FO played FA sometimes, but not in flight.)

 

 

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Well, there ya go. Noooowwwww yyoouu knoooowwww...

Pat☺

Meal service has nothing to do with it.

 

The primary duty of flight attendants is to save your a$$ when the excrement hits the rotating blades.

 

Any other services they perform, such as meal and drink service, are done solely in an attempt to get you to buy another ticket on their airline.

In the early days, they were required to be RNs, too.

 

I am old enough to remember the stewardesses wore miniskirts and were pretty and under 30!!!

I'm old enough to remember before miniskirts, but they were generally required to be attractive and, usually, young as well.

Well, thanks guys. Bean, you pinned it down, and Phantom, you described exactly why I say I'm stuck in the '50's.

A lot of us are stuck in the 50's! When I fly these days (and that's rare), like Pat used to do, I wear a coat 'n tie. My first flight was an Eastern flight from Providence to Newark, I was ten, I remember both my father and I dressed in grey flannel suits with ties... those were the days!

Yeah, I can recall stewardesses looking like fashion models. They were all extremely attractive, until some butt hurt folks got mad that Aunt Jenny, all 300 pounds of her, couldn't get hired based on her looks, so they passed laws that did away with this form of discrimination.

 

Next target on their list, casino cocktail waitresses, I'm sure...

Ahhh, those were the days...

 

-- When traveling by Air was a 'luxury', passengers had a modicum of common courtesy,

all the the Flight Crew cared about was providing a superlative Flight experience, and the accommodations were first rate regardless of Class...

 

Alan :rolleyes:

Those were the days, my friend, I thought they'd never end... But then...