[recycled sixtie]

I have a both a sister and a first wife that were flight attendants. The unions protected these f/a's so they could be lifers. The ideal that many of you are talking about of beautiful young f/a's is a myth because women have made a career out of it so many of them will be there until age 65. This is common to US and Canadian carriers. The overseas flights generally have the oldest flight attendants on because they can get their time in quicker. The younger ones are junior and end up working more days doing the internal flights. There may be airlines that don't have unions but if that is the case there is still a pecking order....

You can also ask yourself if you were married to an f/a would you think it fair that the airlines asked her to leave because she was old, fat or ugly?