The mix and match uniform that was introduced in 1978 became the template for all future Dan-Air uniforms. For this to be the case there had to be a winning formula. Clearly cornflower blue is a good aviation colour - Ask Ryanair and KLM. The print dress and blouse of 1978 was a disaster. Not in style but in making. As soon as it was washed the print ran and smeared black streaks on lemon, so it was quickly replaced with a plain blouse in the palest lemon. Out-sized collars had gone out of fashion by 1980 and so a more practical blouse was introduced. The blouse and neckerchief that many had not liked was replaced in the mid eighties with a small detail blouse that you can see later on in this page. Tankt-ops became and optional feature. In 1990 the, now all too familiar bowler was replaced by a generic rounded hat with low brim. The print on the blouse became more bold as did the neck tie. Male cabin crew joined the airline in 1987. Their double breasted blazer, grey trousers and white short sleeved shirt never altered. The tie with company red and blue stripes was natural choice. The final company uniform dropped the hat after trials were conducted giving crew the choice. As the hat was never really liked it wasn't much of a surprise when it was dropped. Enjoy your time on this page looking back at cabin crew uniforms.
1953
Joan Murphy was one of the airline's first Chief Stewardesses. There are no colour photographs of any of the uniforms until 1965. It seems that this uniform was worn by all stewardesses (Dan-Air did not employ male stewards until 1987) The colour we are told was Navy Blue. The shirt was white cotton and the look was complemented by white gloves and black shoes.
1962
Above is a picture of Miss. Elizabeth Allen who was with Dan-Air from 1958. She was made chief stewardess in 1962 aged 26. She had studied at Jarrow Grammar School before attending finishing school at the Alliance Francais and the Sorbonne. When she took on the job she had 3,000 flying hours to her credit. She lived in Kensington.
1965
Jean Broadhurst in 1965
1960s Gallery
1967-1969
The 1967/68 uniform was still in charcoal blue. The only feature that had been changed it. seems was the hat.
1969 saw the introduction of a brand new uniform to premiere for the summer season of 1970. The airline had decided to have a look unique for the girls. We are not sure of the designer, but names put forward have been Mary Quant and Mansfield. This uniform was popular as it was very fashionable. Perhaps it was too fashionable as by the time it was replaced just three years later it had become out of style. The hat featured on some of the photographs may appear to look black, but was in fact a dark blue.
1972-73 Gallery
When the 1973 uniform was presented, it was saw the company revert to blue as the main colour. This time it was described as "French Blue" It can be seen above, worn by Airleen Levis. On first appraisal it could be seen as a classic design. However, of all the comments we have been sent - this uniform is the one that is constantly derided. Check out these comments!
- 'The white neck tie that we had to wear when the aircraft was on the ground was a nightmare. When you opened the door it flew in your face. As it did outside at the first hint of a breeze.'
- 'Oh I hated that blouse. It was such a funny material. If you were in a hot country the hotter it got the more sticky the blouse became.'
- 'The blouse was vile, if you were in the galley the big, flouncy sleeves were always dropping into something, food, drink, wine and coffee being the worst.'
- 'I hated the skirt, it was an awkward length. neither a mini nor a knee length, I took mine up two hemlines and was brought into the office when I was spotted.'
- 'The whole thing was horrible. I think it was crimpolene. If you were in Palma in July with that on with your tights as well, it stuck to everything, it never breathed.'
- 'That blouse was never out of soak. You couldn't get half of the stains out of the arms, and there were many - it always dipped into things - We got dry cleaning tokens for our suits but had to do the blouses ourselves. I don't know if people officially complained, but I don't know of anyone who liked it.'
- 'I never liked any part of it - the sleeves were too baggy, the neck tie flew everywhere, the material was awful, I even hated the hat. I stitched a hair comb in the front and back to keep it in place. It flew off at Gatwick and landed in a filthy puddle. I tried to steam the grime off with a kettle. It sort of worked but the hat was then mis-shaped. I was brought in because of that, and told to be more careful as replacements were expensive!'
- 'It was a step up from the red one before. In that you could bend over to pick something up you had dropped in the aisle without half the male passengers seeing your underwear. When I first picked it up and tried it, one of the fleet stewardesses said 'You could at least try to look as if you like it.'
- This was my first uniform, and I was so excited to be wearing it. My Mum took a picture of me wearing it in the garden and it was on the wall in her home. Little did I know that the loose sleeves would always end up covered in gravy or wine. I used to buy spray starch to try and stiffen up the neck-tie. In hot climates you would sweat like mad in it. The only thing I liked about it after a short time was the fact that you could wash it in the sink and it would dry really quickly and it never creased. I sewed a hair grip into the hat lining to help it stay in place. I was trained on two types of aircraft - the Comet and the newly introduced 727 which saw a big problem. I was standing by the air-stairs at the back greeting passengers, when this big blob of oil or something oil like dropped from the engine onto the neck tie. I was rebuked for being in the wring place. The stain would not come out!
- As I remember we were given three blouses, two skirts, one jacket, one hat, one bag, and a coat. We had to wear white gloves in summer and black ones in winter. The shoes made me feel like Minnie Mouse! It was hot and sticky to wear, but it was better to look at than some of our rivals.
1974-76 Gallery
1976
As much as the 73-76 uniform was complained about, the 1976 replacement was admired. When the uniform was launched it consisted of a dark blue tee shirt with red piping. The following year a blouse was introduced. The staff had a choice of two colours with the blouse, red or blue. There was a short sleeved option for summer as well. The House of Mansfield came up with the design. Although the uniform looks black on most pictures, it was, in fact, described as 'Midnight Blue'. By having such a dark blue the uniform matched the aircraft. One criticism came from one stewardess who said "I always thought the hat was a bit on the high side! I preferred the blue one that came after it. now THAT was a uniform." Other comments included
- 'I felt so proud wearing that uniform. I even drove to work in the hat.'
- 'I thought everything about that uniform was stylish. It fitted well and was cool in hot climates. The blouses washed well.'
- 'I've still got mine. I can't fit into it mind you - But it still hangs beautifully on the hanger. My daughter tried it on and it still looked lovely.'
- 'One of the girls from Monarch I knew came over to me at Manchester and said how she hated her uniform. She thought we looked like hostesses and that they looked like a walking banana.'
- 'I got mine out of the loft the other day and I was really surprised at quite a few details. Firstly it was really really well made. The overcoat was a woollen blend. I was most shocked at how tiny it all looked even though I haven't put a lot of weight on. The hat I always remember being a bit too tall. But the one in my loft was small. I'm shocked that my head had grown so much because it had to pull it down and it felt tight on my forehead. It never used to do that.'
- The uniform was altered a year or so after it was introduced. The tee shirt top was replaced with a lovely cool blouse. We had two colours that we could wear, red or blue. I preferred the red. But sadly if you got, shall I say, a little warm under the arms, it could show a wet patch. Which I was constantly trying to avoid with copious amounts of 'Mum' roll-on deodorant!
- At Manchester we were used to wind and rain - my hat was used to dropping into puddles on the apron when the wind caught it. When the coat got wet it took an eternity to dry. I was known to hang it on the steps if we were in somewhere like Tenerife in winter. But if you couldn't get it to dry - it smelled terrible. Another trip to the dry-cleaners!
1976-78 Gallery
1978-1986
The new look uniform was debuted in 1978 to coincide with the airline's silver jubilee. At first, the designers, the House of Mansfield, were instructed to design a brown uniform. When the board of directors, and more importantly, senior cabin staff management, saw it - it was quickly dropped. The airline management and senior cabin crew managers left the matter in the hands of the chief stewardess Janet Ford who sent out a survey to all crew asking them what they would like in a uniform. She was well aware that it would be difficult to find a look that would suit 600 plus women with different personalities and hair colours. The results quickly came back, including several with images drawn by crew members. Overwhelmingly the girls had said they wanted something that would be stylish and fashionable. On a more practical level they wanted a uniform that would be cool in the midday heat of Greece and warm in a Norwegian winter. The girls also liked the idea of being able to vary the uniform slightly whilst still keeping the overall look. House of Mansfield came up with the concept of 'Mix and Match'. This would mean that the girls could choose between a skirt with a blouse or a summer dress or trousers and a blouse. Cream or pale blue coloured lamb's wool tank tops or jumpers would also be provided. The new hat would be a bowler style with a lowered front brim. Blouses and summer dresses would be in pale lemon with the company compass and flag logo as a print. Finally there would be a cream Mac to finish the look. Incidentally, the shelved uniform did later appear in public, when it was selected for the Gatwick Handling ground staff.
After receiving wide praise in the press the uniform was launched in time for the busy summer season. It was not without teething troubles. The print design on both the blouse and dress was found to run in everything but the coolest of water temperatures. The issue was a costly mistake as a second issue of a more colour fast material was hastily issued.
The second incarnation of the 'Mix and Match' brand was introduced in 1979 which saw the dress and blouse replaced with a pale lemon blouse - minus the print. In both cases the collar was rather large which was in keeping with fashion trends. By 1980 the third version saw a much reduced collar size. A neckerchief was introduced which could be worn on one of three styles.
Over the next few years only minor changes appeared to the uniform. Blouses were made available in short or long sleeve variants and as trends influenced skirts were made wider or narrower at the hem line. The Mac did not last however, after it was replaced with a cornflower blue overcoat. Which many people have told us 'fitted no-one at all properly'. In 1983 the dress option was shelved and in 1985 the lemon blouse was replaced with a plain white one.
This uniform was generally viewed favourably with Dan-Air cabin crew, and is looked upon as the definitive 'Dan-Air Look' Comments sent to us included:
- This was my favourite of all the uniforms I ever wore.
- How I hated that hat.
- The coat was just awful - it buried everyone who wore it.
- I felt ten feet tall walking through the airport with this on.
- When we were given this 'creation' I rather liked it. The blouse was a cheese-cloth type of fabric and I wasn't so keen on it. But my first flight out was to a hot destination and it did keep me cool. So on my return home, I washed it by hand and although the blouse was light coloured, the water went really dark. I was horrified, all the logos had bled and smudged. I thought I was going to be for it when I got to work. I went in wearing a clean one and the washed one in a bag. The same thing had happened to lots of us - thank God! I can't remember if we were given a re-designed one or whether we had to just put up with it for a year.
- My now husband said he could smell Dan-Air girls before he saw us. He said we all smelled of Rive Gauche perfume. Well, I certainly did.
- I wore both this uniform and the one that preceded it and followed it. I definitely got more wolf whistles wearing this than any other. I secretly loved them.
- My boyfriend at the time sat on the hat. He did the best he could to put it right. I opened a BAC 1-11 door at Gatwick and was spotted with binoculars with a bashed in hat.
- The materiel was less heavy than the navy one I first wore. My first ever flight in this was to Palma, where it was scorching hot. I was surprised at how cool I felt in it.
- It was better at hiding my pregnancy than the check stewardess was! Too late, I was grounded!
- One passenger I remember asked where she could buy one from as her best friend was getting married - she thought it was a perfect wedding guest outfit.
- Loved it so much - I still do. I am still flying and would be proud to wear the exact same uniform.
- I was dismissed from Dan-Air after four months. They didn't pull any punches. They said I had let them down over standbys and more to the point I had received complaints over my attitude from pax (Passengers) I blame the uniform, no seriously I do! It made me feel ten feet tall - Like I could do anything. Obviously I couldn't because people thought I was a b*tch. I'm not at all by the way!
- I never knew how I managed to keep the summer gloves so white. My mum told me before I got in touch with you that she used to soak them for me in 'glo-white' which is a net curtain cleaner. Apparently she could do it and get them dry when I came home from a night flight.
- I got into bother for coming to work wearing the jacket with stains on it. She stood there moaning at me, about how bad it made the airline look if I was wearing a stained jacket. Eventually I got a word in and told her that if she had been standing next to the ventral door at the back of a Boeing 727 in Gerona saying hello and goodbye to passengers, there was a good chance something would have landed on her jacket as well. I'm no engineer, was it oil? It was this black stuff that dripped out of the number two engine and landed on your hat and jacket - regularly. The uniform before was really dark and didn't show it.
- The 1979-80 version was nice. It was a plain lemon blouse that was stylish. The collars as I recall were huge. They reduced in size as the eighties wore on.
- I certainly felt a million dollars in this outfit. I was based at Aberdeen and we were allowed to wear boots - but only outside the aircraft and only on exceptionally cold and wet days. As soon as we got back inside the aircraft we had to put our shoes back on. American tan tights were permitted. I also wore thick non-uniform wool socks with the boots. It was very cold at Sumburgh you know. I never was a trousers girl, especially the very flared ones that were part of this uniform, and like a fool I thought that the tights would do enough to keep me warm - they didn't - not even in the air! Funny isn't it, now I love trousers and especially flared ones!
- The hat! I had never worn a hat in my whole life. So I wasn't thrilled to be wearing one now. Especially as I swear this hat ruined my freshly permed hair. I get wet at Newcaslte and my gentle waves turned into a Kevin Keegan bubble perm. Except the bit where the rim sat. It was completely straight. My hairdresser blamed it on the hat.
- I had no complaints about this one, and I loved the scarf. I still wear it to this day!
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1986-1989
Once again the House Of Mansfield was called in to work on the design for a new look. The bowler style hat was dropped in favour of a felt hat. Cornflower blue remained the colour. The uniform was more tailored, but the skirt length had increased. the kick pleat at the front was also to stay. A new, dotted print appeared on long and short sleeved blouses.This was available as a Summer dress too. The tank top was changed to match the blue of skirts and jackets. A much neater bow was introduced which was allowed to be worn in four styles. Comments included.
- Never liked the hat it was floppy and looked a mess if it got wet - which it did - A lot!
- I was shocked they got rid of the bowler hat. It was very popular with passengers
- The blouse was cheap and nasty
- The blouse was lovely - good quality cotton much better than what I wear now.....
- The tank top was lambs wool - good quality
- The uniform store was not the friendliest of places if you had ruined your hat - as I did more than once.
- I hated the kick pleat in the front. I hate all kick pleats. There was too much of Princess Diana in the design, or was it Margaret Thatcher?
- Not a single part of this uniform was to my style. American tan tights are a vile colour. I mean you don't see a tan in that colour! Weirdly though I was very proud to wear that uniform.
- At least with the bowler hat we used to wear - the brim one inch above your eyebrow- rule could be stuck to. This hat never knew where it wanted to sit.
- Losing a button on my jacket was a hallelujah moment for me. It was what was in fashion so I was delighted.
- Recently I heard Virgin were allowing crew to be make up free.... When I see present day cabin crew I am often shocked. Our rules were rigid as steel. We couldn't even wear earrings until much later on, and they were pearl only. Nails could be painted one of about three colours only, we had three lipstick choices, make up applied a certain way, hair longer than the collar had to go up in a BLUE ribbon. It was strict - but we looked knock out.
- I lived in Preston - about 40 minutes drive to Manchester Airport. Enough time for the skirt to be creased, even though it said on the label -crease proof' I don't think it has aged as well as some of our other uniforms.
- That hat - it looked like a potty when you rested it upside down.
1986-89 Gallery
1989-1991
The cornflower blue had become part of Dan-Air's brand image and was to stay for the 1989 new look. Once again, the House of Mansfield were given the task of coming up with the uniform. The neckerchief was replaced with a simple neck tie and the blouse had a simple print in red and blue (Not the one above). The 1989 uniform saw the re-introduction of the summer dress, and the new-look jacket came without the giants 1980s shoulder pads. It was also shorter and came with slit pockets instead of flap style ones. New skirts would now feature a kick-pleat at the front - which was not welcomed by many. But the distaste from many of the girls was reserved for the most hated part of the new design - the hat!
The airline had recently launched a business class cabin and the new corporate identity was hoped to reflect this new more sophisticated image. There was heavy press coverage for the launch in May and Dan-Air boasted about the new style. For the first time in its history Dan-Air had employed male cabin crew. A manager told us:
'It is fair to say that we as a company did not want to use men as cabin crew. There had been a big hearing involving us and the Equal Opportunities Board. It had been damaging for our reputation, there is no doubt about it. We had argued that we employed men as load-masters on freight services to do just that, and to provide refreshments for flight deck crew. They sometimes even worked on oil supply flights out of Aberdeen. But it was always felt that women were what our passengers wanted. It sounds silly saying it aloud now, but that was the general consensus. Our load masters wore basically the same uniform as Flight Engineers with different stripes. For the first time we would have to have a man's uniform that worked with the company brand. We couldn't have men in suits the same colour as the girls. It was much too feminine a colour. Perhaps nowadays we could. In the end I saw a mock-up of the two designs and whilst I didn't sit up and say 'Wow!' I thought it was as appropriate as it could be. Grey trousers and a white shirt. The first jacket was the same colour as the girls wore, the second jacket was almost black, which I still say was black! The blue one was dismissed with barely a discussion, words to describe it by some people couldn't be said today. The tie was the only part of the uniform that could show any flair. It could, but it didn't! It was a navy tie with blue and red diagonal stripes. We played it safe. What the boys lacked in sartorial elegance though - they more than made up for in terms service and dedication.'
Comments included.
- Now that was a uniform
- No matter how much I complained they wouldn't change that bloody hat.
- I put a little bit of weight on and they didn't have my size - I was told to make sure I fit in the skirt - quickly!
- I think we looked better than a lot of our contemporaries.
- I think the passengers liked this one - I was told by a few regulars who had noticed the change straight away.
- I could not stick this hat. I saw an aunt of mine wearing something really similar at a wedding, she looked old and frumpy in hers, and I think mine made me feel the same.
- One of the fleet stewardesses said to me when she first saw me in it - ******* you know, we do only go up to a size fourteen in skirt don't you? I lost the weight.
- If I was out of vision, the first thing I did was to take that hat off. I had worn the bowler with pride, this was like those from British Home Stores. There was nothing unique or stylish about it.
- I quite liked this one. It was much nicer than the Airtours pea pod or the Britannia beret, which was hideous. My only complaint was the over-coat. I was very petite then, and boy that coat fitted like a sleeping bag.
- Mine recently came down from the loft because my Grandson was going to a Pride event in Manchester and wanted to go in drag! He is very slim and it fit him. He put the wig on and then the hat, and he said 'F***ing Hell Gran, what is this? Is it modelled on a potty?' Do you know what - they are the same words I used in 1989 - without the swearing!!
- There are photo's of me wearing this 'creation' - when we did turnarounds down route we would often mess about. You know the sort of thing, especially if we were delayed. Sliding down the aisle on a tray or swapping uniforms with the lads! We used to turn the brim down and it sat there like a pudding bowl. We would pull faces for the camera and be holding the megaphone in front, wearing the demo life vests. If our managers would have seen us - even when no passengers were around - we would have been bollocked for it. I always thought British Midland had the right idea around this time.
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1992
Dan-Air's final uniform came on stream in 1991 and was hardly a change at all. The blouse was updated with a bold new print that reflected the airline's corporate colours. Finally the hat was dropped, causing relief to some, but consternation to others. Mainly because for the first time, the crew would not be wearing a hat at all.
The airline was experiencing financial pressure as European economies stalled. There had been a shift away from charter flying onto scheduled services. Dan-Air explained that the new look was a temporary one and that designing a new hat would be an unnecessary expense when the whole uniform was due to be updated in 1993 - to coincide with the airline's 40th anniversary. In response to crew who voiced an opinion about wishing to wear a hat, the airline said that those wishing to wear the existing hat were free to do so, until the following year, when hats would be 'revisited' when the new uniform was at its final stages.
It is worth noting that ground grew who worked with Class Elite passengers wore a black uniform. All other ground crew had worn the same uniform as cabin crew previously albeit without the wings badge. Those ground crew at Gatwick continued to wear the familiar brown Gatwick Handling uniform was worn.
Comments included.
- That hat - thank God it was dropped
- We were sent a note saying they were giving us the option for a month to wear or not wear the hat. To find out if a hat was to be redesigned or dropped. I never found the results out - it was just dropped. I guess that says it all. Despite hating the hat I wore mine for the month hoping we would get a new design. We didn't!
- I was not given the option to wear a hat - were were just told to stop
- I was on a snowy Manchester apron when a maintenance vehicle drove past me it went through a puddle of de-icer that hadn't been cleaned up. I was splattered with green de-icer, oily slush and snow. It looked terrible. I climbed up the steps after boarding was complete and was told off for not wearing my overcoat. Long before the days of compulsory hi-vis jackets.
- Yeah I liked this one. It was comfy and stylish. The collar was a little high, but generally I liked it.
- I loved this one, until some clever dick said had we got the design from Margaret Thatcher now she wasn't Prime Minister.
- We looked good you know. I see cabin crew nowadays and they wouldn't stand a prayer in Dan's days. You just can't imagine how we had just three lipstick shades we could use, even a bloomin' ribbon on your hair had to be the same colour as the uniform. Tie your bow in only certain ways. Hats one inch above your eyebrows. Don't smoke in front of passengers, don't talk about company policy in front of them. Wear your gloves and hat on the way to the airport.
- I would go back tomorrow and do everything again - in a heartbeat. Even wearing that blouse and hat!
1992 Gallery
Of course, Cabin Crew, or Flight Attendants as they are now called were not just uniforms in the air. There was a great deal that went into the job. Every year thousands of people would apply to all UK airlines for a position as cabin crew in a field where only a few hundred would be required. The crew were more often than not, upon successful completion of training, offered a job as temporary cabin crew. For the ambitious few this would often mean relocating to an airport far away from their home town. The applicants would have to undergo four weeks of intensive training in classrooms. Where many aspects of airline operations would be covered. These would include customer service, customs regulations, safety, aircraft familiarisation, first aid, and personal grooming. Even this is a far from comprehensive list. For when we look at something such as aircraft familiarisation, this would involve operation of doors, air stairs, the galley with all its stowage and operation. How to operate ovens and prepare food. There are lists and manuals to study, which tell crew their duties before a single passenger has boarded. From cleaning the headphones of the flight deck crew to where to stand to greet passengers.
Crew arrive at an airport long before the flight departs, where they are briefed about the flight. This would cover any unaccompanied children, disabled passengers and anything else that might occur during that flight. Charter flights in Dan-Air's time operated at some very anti-social hours. It was perfectly normal to fly out of the UK at 11pm and not return to base until 9am the following day. The training would involve recreating situations in cabin mock-ups and evacuation procedures. This would culminate in a swimming pool where they would be expected to pass tests on swimming, rescuing passengers, inflation life rafts and using evacuation slides as life rafts. There would be extensive training on product knowledge of the products that the airline sold, not only from the bar, but of Duty Free goods too. This would be supplemented by learning about Bonded Stores, allowances, and currency conversion.
The obvious things that passengers see, are the duties carried out when crew are serving passengers. It was never a case of plonking a tray in front of a passenger. Cabin crew were trained how to present what is essentially a basic meal in such a way that it was appealing. To serve drinks in a certain way to passengers where they are made to feel important. Your cabin crew were trained to make anxious flyers feel more at ease, to help should a passenger feel poorly and to act in an emergency medical situation. All at the same time as looking as stylish and fresh at the end of the journey as they would at the start. The trainees would be given lessons in deportment, hair and make up and overall grooming.
Once all of that intensive training is completed, and all those exams are passed - a crew member is allowed to fly as a temporary crew member. Often these junior crew are in the galley, doing the less than glamorous jobs, such as loading bar trollies and arranging meal trays. After a season of gruelling flying the majority of these crew members are released from their jobs. A few lucky ones were offered permanent contracts, but many would have to wait from October until the following February to find out if they would be invited back for a refresher course and a season of flying again.
Dan-Air had a reputation that was second to none for its cabin service. Lots of their former crew have gone on to fly with some of the world's most renowned airlines. Below are some documents that explain some of their roles whilst with Dan-Air. Viewing them will give the reader an insight into how vigorous the airline's standards were. One former training stewardess told this website:
'We were in a fortunate position in that we could pick and chose from a large number of applicants. Today crew do not have to meet such exacting standards. I understand why, this is how the world is today. But we could basically say to ourselves; no, she is too heavy, she is too tall, she is wearing glasses, she has a tattoo, she is too short, her teeth, hair, make up are all wrong. You could take perhaps 50% of people off the list before you spoke to them. I know this sounds terribly harsh, but bearing in mind - for much of our company history we wouldn't employ a stewardess if she was older than 30 or married. It didn't matter how good she was at her job or how well she looked. They were grounded. In the airline's eyes we had only the best. I know that is not necessarily the best policy. Age does have benefits in terms of experience and coping skills in an emergency. The airline recognised that in the 1980s and we lifted the grounded at 30 regulation. We also began to allow crew to be married. It was ridiculous that flight deck crew could marry and not stewardesses. Especially as we employed married female pilots. I believe that broadly we got things right at the time. I am sure we would have altered some of the practices to mirror what society expected in more recent times. But I am certain, absolutely certain that even if Dan-Air had been forced to go down the Ryanair and EasyJet route of being a low-cost airline that we would never have handed a can of beer over with a plastic glass on the top. I know we would still have served meals and drinks in a courteous manner in the same way we did back then. Our standards never dropped in almost 40 years, in fact they always improved. We were fortunate that we could employ the best - and we made sure we did.'
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Tuesday 16 Mar 2021
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Leonard Baddeley
Sunday 21 Feb 2021
Hello, just to let you know the unidentified air hostess circa 1973 in the Comet serving coffee, is my wife who was known as Carolyn Hales, some of her friend called her Caro, she worked on both Comet and BAC 111, along with her friend Rita.
Leonard
Thursday 13 Aug 2020
The photo of the un identified stewardess serving drinks on a Comet circa 1973, is my wife, she was known as Carolyn Hales, and still is.
Leonard Baddely
Thursday 19 Dec 2019
The photo of a stewardess on a Comet unidentified 1972/73 in a red uniform, is my wife Carolyn Hales, Yes Carolyn kept her name married, she used to go to the reunions with her very close friend Margaret. I would love to have a copy of this photo. We live in Cornwall where Carolyn was born. Our address is.... 4Trefloyd Close Kelly Bray Callington Cornwall PL17 8DP. It would be wonderful for us to have a copy of the photo.
Thanks Leonard.
Thanks Leonard.