Video flashback: Too hot to fly, 1972 edition Update: “We move our tails for you”

posted at 10:45 am on September 8, 2007 by Allahpundit

Or rather, too hot not to fly? Thanks to reader Gary W. for tipping me to this.

Yes, it’s the same airline.

Update (bp): The Manolo has found a couple more photos of Southwest flight attendants from the 70s and before. Ya gotta see ‘em to believe ‘em.

Manolo says, Ayyyy! The Irony! One minute, you are looking like Hooters Girls, and the next you are escorting them off the plane for indecency.

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So article three in the unconditional war on terrorism is that we agree to get Islamic women from behind veils and into hotpants? This could be the real surge.

Hening on September 8, 2007 at 10:36 PM

Well, I saw this story on tv several times today.

It’s pretty clear that the only thing keeping this silly story on life support is the T&A factor.

juliesa on September 8, 2007 at 11:35 PM

A steady flow of tan legged nurses in mini-skirts… now that is something I’d vote for in a heart beat.

Mcguyver on September 8, 2007 at 11:48 PM
And from the Hsu thread:

Chinese gangsters? Freemasons? It’s like a bad movie on a low-rent cable channel. All this lacks is a super-villain with an underground HQ and some hot female assassins.

Thomas the Wraith on September 8, 2007 at 10:52 PM
I had this site all wrong – I thought I would be reading about dull stuff, like politics, instead of what I really crave – soft porn!!

fred5678 on September 9, 2007 at 12:12 AM

Aahh! Still stuck on the soft porn channel!!

For more of my favorite old time airline:

http://www.jetpsa.com/uniforms/wanted.html

fred5678 on September 9, 2007 at 1:12 AM

It is amazing that such a small thing has brought out the truth.

The real problem in the industry is they are so focused on $$$ they have forgotten that service is what causes a passenger to choose one carrier over another. Even if the fare is a few dollars more on the one that provides great service.

Deregulation opened the skies so many more people could afford to fly. But, flying is not something that most people take to easily. Therefore, treating potentially apprehensive passengers like a person and keeping their minds off the fact that they are no longer in touch with terra firma is a concept that SW saw as key to their succesful model.

Also, many may want to go back a few years ago and really look at what made PANAM the king of the air. They treated you well.

The first flight attendants were required to be registered nurses with class. Maybe the airlines should seek RN’s who want a break to see the world as members of their flight team, whose task is to care for you from take off to landing. But passengers must also treat those who are charged with their safety with the respect they deserve and some of the good ol days can return.

While we are bringing the past up, maybe there should be a grassroots effort to reinstate route 66 to its glory. We have become far too accustomed to fast via the Interstate air carriers etc. that it may be time to slow down a bit and reflect on what has made us a great nation.

MSGTAS on September 9, 2007 at 8:58 AM

We have become far too accustomed to fast via the Interstate air carriers etc. that it may be time to slow down a bit and reflect on what has made us a great nation.

That is lovely. We would all be better off if we’d slow down a bit and appreciate our great country, and our fellow citizens, and if we’d treat each other with a little more courtesy to reflect that appreciation.

DrMagnolias on September 9, 2007 at 11:50 AM

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