CEO Jerry Grinstein helped Marlene “Marty†Evans, our most senior flight attendant, mark her 50th anniversary Friday. Her anniversary is on Tuesday. Evans started her airline career with Pacific Northern Airlines in 1956. It was absorbed by Western Airlines in 1967 and then she became Delta family with that merger in 1987. During those years, she has been based in Anchorage, Seattle, Los Angeles, Denver, Portland, Salt Lake City and Atlanta. But she calls Estes Park, Colo., home. She has flown with many famous faces, Johnny Carson, John F. Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, but her favorite was Lassie, who flew in the first class cabin resting on two seats. Evans describes her 50 years of service as extraordinary and encouraged newer flight attendants to remain patient, energetic and hardworking.
F/A celebrates 50 years of flying!
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more power to her! If people like this can continue to do the job, they will likely do it very well and teac alot of other people a less or two. You clearly hang in there that long because you want to be there - which means you probably do what you do well.
Think you'll be flying when you've got a 50 year service pin, Fly?
Think you'll be flying when you've got a 50 year service pin, Fly?
NewHampshire Black Bears
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Congratulations! Our #1 (former TWA) was furloughed in 2003 just shy of her 50 year anniversary. Think of all the changes she has experienced.
USCREW
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Betty at US had to have a special pin designed to fit all six diamonds.
JAMAKE1
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I believe that United has the world's most "senior" flight attendant. She's a Purser based in SFO. Began her career with UAL in 1946 and if memory serves me correctly, she turned 86 this year...I won't name names, but she usually flies the Shanghai route...
coolflyingfool
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And how helpful will they be in an emergency situation? I am not always for a set age on retirement, but at 70, go play bingo. just my thoughts.......
jimntx
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That beats our #1. AA's #1 f/a started flying for AA on 06NOV52. She will have 54 years this November! (I'm 61, and I was in the 2nd grade when she started flying for AA.)
USCREW
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Betty at US is very vital, and sharp as a whip. Can not get anything pass her. Her goal was to reach fifty years, but now has set it higher!
JAMAKE1
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Betty at US is very vital, and sharp as a whip. Can not get anything pass her. Her goal was to reach fifty years, but now has set it higher!
Did Betty start at Mohawk or Robinson-Turner?
USCREW
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I'm not sure if she started with Eastern (you know US bought the Trump Shuttle), but she said that when she was a new hire, Delta was a nobody--a little dust cropper.Did Betty start at Mohawk or Robinson-Turner?
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If you start flying at 18 and spend 54 years working, I personally do not want a 72 year old FA working with me. Go play BINGO! just my thoughts........
Did Betty start at Mohawk or Robinson-Turner?
Robinson and Turner were two separate entities. Robinson became Mohawk, while Turner (named after Roscoe) became Lake Central.
Hopefully someday you'll be a healthy, vigorous 72 year old. You might not want to be an FA but I sure would like to see you play BINGO for the remaining 10-20 years of your life. Wake up. just my thoughts...........
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