Unfasten Your Seat Belts (airlines go "Nudge,nudge. Wink,wink")

Forbes Magazine ^ | 02/17/03 Issue | Aliya Sternstein

[yankeedame]

OutFront

Unfasten Your Seat Belts
by Aliya Sternstein
02.17.03

Tired of surly flight attendants in frumpy garb? Airline charter services are offering an alternative: buxom hostesses in teeny underthings.

So-called Ecstasky Air, a charter service based in Beverly Hills, Calif., lets passengers choose their stewardesses from 135 fetching gals (and 15 guys) in teddies, merry widows and skimpy bikini underwear. Less means more, at least when it comes to in-flight services. These flight attendants offer foot rubs, shoulder massages, pedicures--and a discreet bill from "RGR LLC." Average price: $40,000.

The private company, which owns 30 Lear and Gulfstream jets, apparently does a booming business with flying bachelor parties (Las Vegas and Cancun are popular destinations) and ferrying fat cats to macho events, like the recent Super Bowl.

Dare we call this a trend? A charter airline called Hooters Air, owned by the restaurant chain known for its curvy waitresses in tight T shirts and hot pants, will take off by midyear--featuring flight attendants garbed in clingy warm-up suits. Hooters Chairman Robert Brooks recently acquired 17-plane Pace Airlines, a division of Piedmont Hawthorne, in Winston-Salem, N.C. Its first destination: Myrtle Beach, S.C. Brooks thinks sports teams will be among its biggest fans.

[billhilly]

It used to be called the mile high club.

[billhilly]

It used to be called the mile high club.

[eno_]

The whole pretense that being a stew is a "profession" is ridiculous. They have no career growth track, so they just get old spotty and bitter. And then they take it out on the customers. Unionized, of course, so no airline manager dare utter the truth.

[Brian Allen]

<< It used to be called the mile high club. >>

It still is!

Capt. B A Hon Chmn. M.H.C.

[billhilly]

Posted by Brian Allen to billhilly; B4Ranch
On News/Activism ^ 02/04/2003 7:46 PM EST #5 of 5 ^

<< It used to be called the mile high club. >>

It still is!

Capt. B A Hon Chmn. M.H.C.

You have no idea how happy that makes me.#:^D

Now, tell me, B4Ranch is not one of those Nevada operations, right?

[cpdiii]

It does not count if you use the Auto Pilot!!!!!

[general_re]

The whole pretense that being a stew is a "profession" is ridiculous. They have no career growth track, so they just get old spotty and bitter. And then they take it out on the customers. Unionized, of course, so no airline manager dare utter the truth.

Yeah, they cut me off for being "disruptive" too...

[mhking]

"Fly me..."

"Hold muh beer 'n watch this!" PING....

If you want on or off this list, please let me know!

[B4Ranch]

I would imagine to keep everything legal all they would have to do is become a Nevada corporation because the profession is legal in most of the Nevada counties.

[Brian Allen]

<< I would imagine to keep everything legal all they would have to do is become a Nevada corporation because the profession is legal in most of the Nevada counties. >>

I was born in New Zealand where the Maori word for "FRiend" -- "Buddy" is pronounced [Approximately] air-whore.

Habitually then, even though they are for the most part enthusiastic amateurs, we also refer to stewardesses [In Maori, of course] as "FRiends" -- and don't register and/or incorporate them anywhere.

But as special favors are often willing to initiate them into the Mile High and Five Mile-High Clubs. Etceteras.

Of course late-model Lear drivers do Eight Miles High and Concorde's jocks, Eleven Miles Plus!!

Lucky little [For ever qualifying and re-qualifying] airwhores, eh??

HehHehHeh .............

[B4Ranch]

HehHehHeh HehHehHeh HehHehHeh