Get ready to meet the world’s longest serving flight attendants, 86, who has worked as an airline employee for 65 years and has seen the industry go from using chalkboards to computers.
Six and a half decades ago, Bette Nash, from Manassas, , landed a job as an Eastern Airlines flight attendant, and she has been pushing beverage carts and giving safety instructions ever since.
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‘I wanted to be a flight attendant from the first moment
She started her career in 1957, when she was 21, and things were certainly different back then – flights were $12 when she first started, and you didn’t have to make a reservation in advance
Bette (seen second from the left) used to hand out Marlborough cigarettes to passengers, and served them lobster on platters – but what’s changed the most is the technology
‘Gone are the days of hand-written tickets, stickers for seat assignments, and chalk boards,’ Bette said. A 1955 plane ticket is pictured left and a flight schedule from 1938 is pictured right
Transformation: Another thing that has changed throughout her 65-year long career is the way that flight attendants dress
‘The attire when I first started was very conservative, then we started getting really out there,’ she recalled to CNN. ‘After that, things started calming down a little bit.’
And while many things have changed since she started, there’s one thing that has stayed the same – the people.
Many things have improved over the years, but there’s one thing that stayed the same – the people. Bette said, ‘They have the same needs – a little love and attention’
‘Maybe their dress changes, but people have the same needs — a little love and attention,’ she told back in 2017.
Bette, who went on to work for American Airlines after it acquired Eastern Airlines, is most known for her ‘warm hospitality,’ and is said to ‘greet every face with a smile’ while keeping her uniform ‘perfectly pristine’ at all times, according to AirlineStaffRates.com.
One passenger, named Simon Johnson, told DailyMail.com in 2017: ‘I think what is most amazing and impressive about Bette is the way she warms up the entire aircraft.
‘You walk on, you meet her, she knows your name, she remembers the conversation that she was having with you yesterday or last week or a month ago.’
‘I fly hundreds of thousands of miles a year, but these are alwayssteroids for sale USA the past six decades,’ American’s Chairman and CEO, Doug Parker said in 2017.
‘It’s the simple things that she does each day, like greet customers with a warm smile, friendly hello and thanking them for their business that has added to her legacy and ability to create an airline that customers want to fly.’
And the flight attendant has no plans to retire any time soon.
‘It’s just been the perfect career path. It’s given my love of people an outlet, and I like to think I’ve given good service to others,’ she gushed to AirlineStaffRates.com.
‘I thoroughly enjoy my three-minute conversations onboard. And I’m often amazed at the interesting work, travels and lives people have. As long as I have my health and I’m able, why not work. It’s still fun.’
She added to CNN, ‘Even when I think I might retire I come to work and I think, «I can’t do that.»‘
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