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Where is all the glamour?
Working in the
‘friendly skies’
The trip is almost over. The
movies and food services have end
ed, and the headphones and trays
have been picked up. A grumpy
passenger demands two aspirin
from the flight attendant, an inex
perienced traveler moans, suffering
from airsickness. The excitement of
attending a flight can easily be seen,
but the glory suddenly disappears.
Still, free travel and short work
weeks have an appeal in a profes
sion that can bring earnings of more
than $30,000 a year.
The benefits of the job set in, as
the plane sets down for the first in a
line of weekly trips — maybe to
Hawaii where sun-soaked bodies lie
on the beach and cool off with a dive
into the waves. The next round of
bidding could change the weekly
destination to Tokyo, where bargain
buys on rice cookers, jade jewels
and other Japanese imports are hard
to beat.
Adding to the thrill of flying are
celebrities, prestigious business
people and political big shots who
often step on board.
This summary highlights some of
one flight attendant’s experiences in
her 17 and one-half years with
United Airlines. “It’s not the
glamorous job the books had written
about. It’s hard work. It’s stressful
— but it’s the best job there is,” says
Trudy Kaufman, who started her
career at age 20, after quitting a
teaching job in New York.
Kaufman says competition has
fiercely taken off in the airline in
dustry, and that flight attendant
work has grown much more deman
ding than it was when she started
out. "You’re not there to be cute.
You’re not there to he pretty. And if
you don’t work you’re out.
"Back then it was in your manual
— ‘freshen your makeup.’ We had
little white gloves. We were really
told to walk with both arms straight.
‘Don't swing.’ But if you did swing,
your thumb must be always facing
forward — and only the right arm
could swing.’’ Kaufman
demonstrates as she stands, talking.
Regimented conditioning made a
stewardess of the ’60s prim and
trim. Kaufman recalls her most vivid
memory of flight training. "There
was fantastic food at training, and
we were weighed once a week of
ficially,” she says.
Since those days of training, such
rules have loosened up a little, Kauf
man says.
‘‘It’s all changed from the
militaristic attitude to ‘do your own
thing,’ ” she says.
In fact, men, married women and
women much over 30 weren’t allow
ed to work as flight attendants for
most airlines in the ’60s. Not until
the late ’60s and early ’70s when
civil rights activists and flight atten
dant unions propelled the issue.
were these rules dropped; and the
term “stewardess” was changed to
“flight attendant.”
Now both men and women well
over 30 attend the needs of air
travelers. “But most airlines have
early retirement features for all posi
views, Killian says. For instance,
Alaska receives about 20 to 30 ap
plications a day. All applicants
come for a group interview with
about 25 others when the airline is
hiring. This gives the personnel
people a chance to get informally ac
tions, to keep the work force mov
ing,” says Jack Killian, who
manages Alaska Airlines' flight at
tendants and has spent 29 years in
the airline industry.
The two flight attendant veterans
with Alaska have been with the
crews for 30 years and are in their
early 50s, earning $30,000 a year,
Killian says.
The incentive to stay with one
company is acquired seniority,
which only comes with years of ex
perience at the same airline, Killian
and Kaufman say. For instance, at
Alaska, flight attendants get raises
every six months. Those who have
been with the company for five years
receive wage increases once a year,
Killian says. ‘‘You’ll find flight at
tendants that start anywhere from
$700 a month to $1,700 a month,”
he says.
Alaska Airlines start attendants at
about $1,200 a month, Killian says.
Applicants for the job must be at
least 21 years old, with two years of
college and two years of customer
service experience. Flight atten
dants must maintain their weight in
proportion with their height, they
must take a strength test and a
medical exam, and they must know
how to swim, says Linda Fielding,
Alaska Airlines employment
specialist.
At most airlines, applicants are
narrowed down in a series of inter
quainted with applicants and decide
whether or not to call them back for
a more formal, private interview.
Fielding says.
Those who pass approval in the
interviews then plunge into
training.
At least 80 hours (two weeks* of
emergency training are mandatory
under the Federal Aviation Ad
ministration, but most airlines have
three to six weeks of training.
Killian says. The FAA monitors
courses periodically, making sure a
sufficient background is provided in
first aid, CPR, air regulations,
passenger regulations, evacuation
and other emergency flight
procedures.
Grooming, passenger and dining
service and display are also taught
in flight school. “Its pretty
strenuous, pretty intense training,”
Martha Minter, manager of Alaska
Airlines flight attendant training,
says.
Each trainee receives hands-on ex
perience, assisting crews on
established commercial flights
several times during the course.
Finally, students have their skills
and abilities approved in an
“operating experience flight.”
"At this stage of the game. I’ve
never had anybody not pass."
Minter says.
In addition to the initial course,
the FAA requires flight attendants to
have annual recurrent emergency
training.
Following flight school gradua
tion. most flight attendants go on
"standby.” They have guaranteed
salaries for a certain number of flight
hours a month and get paid for addi
tional hours as well.
On standby a flight attendant may
be called to fly anywhere at any
time.
Kaufman began flying 85 hours of
standby a month to and from New
York, where she was based, to un
distinguished Midwest cities.
However, having entered the field
when the demand for stewardesses
was high, she moved from standby
in three months and began flying
regularly to flashy places like Las
Vegas, Los Angeles and San Fran
cisco — cities that sounded exciting
and strengthened her seniority.
in Seattle, Kaufman's present
base, starting flight attendants aren’t
so lucky, spending an average of 14
years on standby, Kaufman says.
Ranking as the 2,468th senior of
the 10,500 United flight attendants
in the United States. Kaufman can
take her first choice route to Tokyo,
where she flies to from Portland
once a week. The attraction, she
says, is flying on United’s best
equipment, with the best service, for
the best pay. "Plus Tokyo is a
romantic city," she adds.
But Kaufman learns about more
than glamor in her weekly flights to
the Orient, attending to both the
prominent and the poor. “Right
now we’re dealing with a lot of
refugees coming in from Cam
bodia," she says, explaining that the
refugees are sent to America under
church sponsorship.
“When they get off the plane with
sandals and no coats, you have tears
in your eyes because you know this
is the land of dreams.” she says.
Kaufman says the biggest
challenge for her is being one of 12
attendants trying to assure 10 hours
of comfort to over 400 passengers of
varied backgrounds. One man may
complain about the stuffy, smoky
air. while a mother cradles her cry
ing infant and a little girl spills her
Coke.
“1 can remember 12 years ago
after a passenger had thrown up on
me. I had cleaned up the passenger,
I had cleaned up myself, and the
passenger asked me ‘What are you
doing?’ ” Kaufman says.
She still recalls kneeling on the
floor cleaning the mess and looking
up at the passenger answering. “I’m
looking for the glamour in this job.”
Story by Lori Steinhauer
Graphic by Shawn Bird
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‘Dangerously’ gets
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“Johnny Dangerously” should be given the dubious
distinction of being this Christmas season’s most unfunny
comedy.
A spoof on 1930s gangster pictures, “Dangerously” stars
Michael Keaton as a swell kid who takes up crime to pay for
his mother’s pancreas operation. He takes a liking to the gang
and continues in the business (his mother continues needing
operations), working with a swell crime boss (Peter Boyle)
who soon gives the reigns of leadership over to Johnny,
Johnny’s inevitable protagonist is the slimy hit man Dan
ny Vermin (Joe Piscopo), a kid Johnny grew up with in the
old qpighborhood. Danny frames Johnny for murder and
Johnny's own little brother, D.A. Tommy Kelley (Griffin
Dunne), prosecutes the case. Gee, isn’t this a scream?
“Johnny” is about as funny as a hernia. Keaton and
Piscopo give okay performances, while the rest of the cast
overdoes their slight characters. The script is simply awful
though, full of hackneyed dialogue and unfunny jokes. Direc
tor Amy Heckerling compounds the problem with poor tim
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We’re supposed to laugh when Keaton breaks a jitterbug
routine to start break dancing and when Piscopo utters his
running joke “My mother did that to me once. . .Once!”
Maybe this is a case of too many cooks, but between the four
scriptwriters, not to mention script doctors Neal Isreal and
Pat Proft (a little conspicuously credited as Medical Ad
visors), you think someone could have thought up a genuine
joke. Instead, we get Peter Boyle holding a detached flush
handle after an explosion in his toilet whimpering because he
thinks he’s lost his family jewels. Yuk, yuk, yuck.
“Johnny Dangerously” has only one aspect reminiscent
of the ‘30s. It has the wretched humor, bad dialogue and off
timing of a bad comedy common to the period.
By Sean Axmaker
Lecture, film scheduled
Documentary filmmaker Julie Reichert will be at the
EMU Ballroom tonight for a lecture and discussion session
following a return screening of her Oscar-nominated film
‘‘Seeing Red: Stories of American Communists.”
Reichert is one of the most successful and acclaimed in
dependent documentary filmmakers in America and ‘‘Seeing
Red” has won awards at numerous film festivals worldwide.
Working with associate Jim Klein since 1970, Reichert
has made numerous political and social documentaries, in
cluding “Union Maids,” a study of labor struggles of the
1930s, and "Growing Up Female,” a film about the socializa
tion of the American female.
"Seeing Red,” the latest film she and Klein have made,
is an intimate look at the people who were members of the
Communist Party in the 1930s. The film traces the initial
idealism of the young American Communist Party and how
the changing times affected public acceptance of the party.
A combination of recent interviews and vintage newsreel
footage {with appearances by J. Edgar Hoover, Richard Nixon
and Ronald Reagan), "Seeing Red” is a personal look at a lit
tle-known historical movement and the people that belonged
to U.
The Cultural Forum invites students to challenge the
film and Reichert with prepared questions.
The event begins with an introduction by Reichert at 7
p.m, The film be screened at 7:15 and a lecture and discus
sion will follow. The cost is $1.50.
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