Dear MEL Topic Readers,
Bette Nash, world’s longest-serving flight attendant, dies at 88
A 16-year-old girl took her first flight in her life back in 1951. When
she saw the pilot and flight attendant walk across the cabin of the TWA flight,
then a mighty airliner, she found a lifetime dream. After graduating from
college, she was hired by Eastern Air Lines in Miami in 1957. She mostly flew
between Washington D.C., New York, and Boston so that she could take care of
her son who suffered from Down syndrome. She kept flying and servicing passengers
on various airlines as they dissolved or merged, including Eastern Air Lines,
Trump Shuttle, USAir Shuttle, and finally American Airlines Shuttle. After
working continuously for over six decades, she was named the longest-serving
flight attendant by Guinness World Records in 2022. She had experienced many turbulences
and technology changes in the airline industry over those years, including the September
11 attack in 2001, the paper-to-tablet transition, and the recent pandemic. She
kept working until just a year before her death last month at the age of 88. Bette
Burke Nash might have been one of the most frequently flown people in history and is now flying in heaven.
Read the article and learn about the passion that had kept this amazing
woman flying and servicing passengers for over six decades.
https://edition.cnn.com/travel/bette-nash-longest-serving-flight-attendant-death-hnk-intl/index.html
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