Would you date a flight attendant?

Believe it or not, when I was in my 20s I was often compared to Brad Pitt. Also in my 20s, I frequented a neighborhood bar when another regular was a young, blonde, very attractive, flight attendant. Her slightly younger sister was equally hot. I totally tried to date her, but she was more interested in money than age-appropriate relationship. She passed me over for another in our after-work group of drinkers - a 40-something divorced man with two kids who worked in metal commodities at the Mercantile Exchange in the Loop. His sales and trades were in the six-figures daily at a minimum. The younger sister dated his younger brother.

Skip a forward a year or two and I was hanging out at the nearly empty pub on a slow night. She walks in alone, followed by a much older couple. It has been a very long time, but we greet each other with a hug and I even pick her up off the ground. It was her birthday, Chris was ignoring her, and her parents had taken her out or drink since no one else would. She looked bad (for her) - yellow teeth, blemished complexion, stringy hair. I can't remember the whole story, but it was pretty shitty.

Would I have dated a flight attendant back then? Sure! I was a player, too, and her time out of town would be my time to play. Would I date a flight attendant now? No. It's not only the frequent travel. Post-911 and post-COVID, airline travel has become such a toxic and stressful experience that anyone working in that industry should be receiving free mental health counseling and regular mental health exams as a requisite for employment. It is impossible so much strain from work to not bleed over into one's personal life. That, and the last time I saw a truly attractive flight attendant was 2014.

My first serious GF wanted to be a Flight Attendant. She definitely had the looks for it back when that was even a requirement (45 years ago). She never followed through and we did not remain a couple but I do remember being very jealous whenever she would bring the subject up. Probably youthful insecurity.

As far as today goes, you really need to fly foreign flag carriers. Most still require their FAs to be young and attractive. And though I can’t call it dating I did recently hook up with a FA from KAL from my flight when we both RONed in Seattle before she headed back to Korea and I flew south. (* RON = remain overnight).

+1 babydoc

I dated a flight attendant. She was super hot and in my league back then, but I was at an insecure part of my life in grad school with little money to spend on a girlfriend. I should’ve stuck to dating classmates who were in the same financial boat, but this girl was freaking hot. I got very insecure when she traveled and she talked about pilots hitting on her. It eventually fizzled, definitely for the better as she wasn’t wife material anyway.

Met a stripper a few years ago who used to be a flight attendant. Let me tell you, this chick was fucking FAT. Totally not my type. I like 'em lean and petite. But this girl had such a pretty face I couldn't stop looking at her, and ended up buying her a drink.

When she said she had been a FA I couldn't believe it, I mean she was so fat I don't know how she could even fit in the aisle to serve the passengers. She showed me a picture of her wearing a uniform and posing from inside the cockpit of a plane, so it seemed legit. She said it was a few years ago, and she looked a bit heavier now, but she was still a wide load even in the old picture.

Anyway, we were having a nice conversation, and by the second drink I was amazed that I actually felt attracted to this tub 'o lard. I was barely listening to her anymore and all I could think about was banging her. I was also trying to work out the logistics of fucking a girl her size in the tiny little VIP booth at this bar.

Well, I never had to worry about that booth. When I zoned back into the conversation, she was talking about how she lives in New York, but she was working in Jersey because the clubs in NY were still closed. (This was when things were just starting to open up after the pandemic.) Then she goes on to say that she's looking for a new club because at this place the girls were all having sex for money, and since she doesn't do that she can't make enough.

At that point, she says she needs to use the ladies room, and asks if she can come back and sit with me some more. I said absolutely yes. I even took my jacket and hung it on the back of her chair to save it for her. I said I'll get us another round of drinks. Then as soon as she disappeared into the bathroom I bolted out the door.

Wouldn't date one. If I had better game, though, I WOULD hang out at hotel bars, trying to hook up with some.

Ok the other hand, you say they aren't home much, as if that's a BAD thing. More time to do as you wish, without her getting in your way. But, that sssumes you aren't deeply into her.

Dating a FA may require even stronger trust and confidence than dating a stripper. At least strippers don't spend a significant portion of their time at hotels with colleagues, and hanging out at hotel bars.

I worked in flight operations for a major air line for 42 years. Started when I was 25 and single. I never had an urge to try to date one. What's the saying "don't eat where you shit"? I saw a lot of changes during those years. Those cuties in their 20's turned into grannies. Stewardesses, as we used to call them, really didn't make it with pilots as much as the public thought. The guys that were really scoring with them were the few straight male stewards. They were always thrown together.

I remember flying from Los Angles to Copenhagen on SAS as a non revenue passenger. It was a night flight and after getting a few hours of sleep I woke up over Greenland and the Flight attendant were just waking up too. I watched the 1 male attendant kissing them good morning. He asked me if American flight attendants did that too. I saw him a week later at the airport restaurant in Copenhagen and he was sitting with 3 other hot looking attendants.

I dated one 20 years ago. Found out she was married to a pilot, and he confronted me and said it was ok. Anyway, his flight attendant wife wanted to drop him and have a child with me. It got weird quick. Never figured I would break a heart of a married flight attendant. End of story.

A lot of flight attendants are super hot and sexy….saw several on my last few domestic flights. I love the tight skirts and tops they wear. I flirted with one at O’Hare recently as I pretended to be lost and she escorted me all the way to the gate. Would have definitely dated her.

Met another one briefly that was a caramel complexion with awesome legs and beautiful eyes. She knew she sexy and I got in her way on purpose as she was rolling her luggage over by me. Tried to entice her into a pre-flight libation but she had to board another flight right away whereas I had a two hour layover. She was nice and bubbly - and you could tell she was used to the flirtation.

Would definitely date a FA.

I actually dated a flight attendant in my early 30s for about 6 months. I certainly didn't look like Brad or Denzel and she wasn't exactly smoking hot, but she was fairly average looking and more than good enough for me. Her work schedule was tough to adjust to but not a deal killer. However, after about 6 months she started talking about not wanting to wait any longer to start having kids since she had just turned 30 and I didn't want kids so that was a deal breaker.

In the end her schedule might have caused a bigger problem if I was wanting to get married and have kids with her and she was planning to keep the same job even after having kids. I do know that she changed jobs and went to work as a ticket agent for the same airline after she got pregnant with her next boyfriend a little over a year after we broke up. I imagine the schedule of a flight attendant would make it tough on a couple raising kids together, but my parents made it work with my dad being an over the road trucker when I was a kid so it can't be much harder than that.

Insecure much!

I I was looking for a wife, no. To much instability, drama, union bs, etc. also, they’re waitresses in the sky, it’s not a job for intellectuals and I like smart girls. However, if I ever got divorced, I could see the upside of a woman who wasn’t around too much, was well travelled, and had a passing acquaintance with loose-morals situations. So, at this point: maybe.

FLAP3000, either you are living outside of the US, have a cranky wrinkled woman fetish, or fly airlines with FAs that skew younger than most US-based airlines.

The only other airline I have flowed that rivals the US for the least appealing flight attendants is Lufthansa.

Favorite memory regarding flight attendants was seeing a large group of them flying as non-revenue passengers on Emirates. They started in their uniforms, then settled into civvie wear once on board. Not an unattractive one among them.

And don't get me started on the Asian carriers, where they actually have appearance and behavior standards.

Some cool stories!

International airlines still seem to have higher standards in terms of looks, age and body. This is before my time but I’m told that being a flight attendant in the 50s, 60s and 70s was a semi sought after profession, perceived to be glamorous/worldly and that looks standard were high.

I fly a lot domestically and the majority of the FAs appear to have been working for 30+ years. The junior, younger FAs (and sometimes hot ones) are generally on small regional flights doing the short trips such as Chicago to Springfield, MO.

Oh boy.

When I was in my late 20s/early 30s my two closest friends, one lived in Vegas the other in Phoenix. We met up a lot in Vegas or Phoenix to party. When I say a lot I mean a lot. When in Phoenix that friend also had a childhood friend (from back east) that lived there too we used to hang out with, who was a stunning airline stewardess for Southwest. Stunning. She was a 5’9” blonde that also did modeling and was in many national print, modeling for large clothing stores when companies would still send catalogs out or inserts in newspapers. Very charming, life of the party, but also a hot mess. Also a developing alcoholic. She always had great stories, like how she once passed out in Paris Hiltons hotel room in Vegas or how she was at some wild party in Miami where half the people were naked. We all wanted to bang her and she always flirted a little “too” much but we all knew better, she was a friend who was attached and we didn’t want that level of crazy in our everyday lives.

She dated a pilot or many years (she was way out of his league). She wanted to get married to him but he refused because at that time he had just turned 30 and had just gotten divorced (luckily no kids). This guy was ex military, flying for a low cost regional carrier, and she was an airline stewardess. A lot of people think those are glamorous, well paying jobs but they aren’t and neither jobs paid well so these two lived in a small apartment and always seemed broke, but who knows they both could have spent half their paychecks on alcohol, it wouldn’t surprise me.

As years went on all the pilot wanted to do was play video games when he was home and all she wanted to do was drink. Eventually one night she stabbed him with a pair of scissors several times and would up in jail. Needless to say after that they broke up and she moved home.

Fast forward to now she’s in her mid 40s, lives back on the east coast in her parents home, has had 2 (that I know of) failed stints in rehab facilities and has been engaged 5 times (that I know of) to various losers. Never married, always engaged. My friend sends me a photo of her “engagement announcement” on Facebook every time it happens! When I say losers, one of the guys was in his late 40s and had a mohawk.

BTW - kudos who ever said above that people in airlines jobs need free mental health help. In a post COVID world there’s lots of jobs that have gotten increasingly crazy and I feel for people in those jobs. Airline travel, education and healthcare are the first that come to mind for me.

Flew to Amsterdam once. I knew a lesbian stewardess through friends. Turns out she was working my flight. She told me the gay and lesbian attendants used seniority to get Amsterdam flights because they got a 36 hour layover and the gay scene was super hot there. The crew was staying at my hotel. When we were checking in she introduced me to the only straight attendant on the crew because she had no one to hang out with. Even the pilots were gay. Early 30's and reasonably attractive.

We went and did some tourist things and hit some bars. Headed back to the hotel she asked if I was too tired to fuck. Nope!

She was not based in Atlanta so lost track of her. My friend later told be she was having an affair with a married passenger she met. She was managing to lay over in Chicago once or twice a week.

^^^ “too tired to fuck?”

98% of all men never say “yes I’m too tired.”

If I look like young Brad Pitt or Denzel I ain't dating anyone monogamously. I'll have a whole harem of women who can show up when I call them.

In general I would not seriously and monogamously date a flight attendant but definitely have casual fun.

I may have shard this before, but I dated a United flight attendant back when they were all female and mostly young, single and hot. Sadly I rarely see a decent looking flight attendant these days. The best part about about my experience was the fact that there were 4 of them who shared a 2 bedroom apartment - since they were all rarely home at the same time. But when they were, these girls were completely comfortable sharing a bed with one another and they were also very uninhibited about walking around the apartment nearly naked. I actually think the roommates went out of their way to get noticed whenever I was over. I was never successful in scoring a 3 some, but I did fuck one of the other flight attendant roommates when my girl was out of town.

My girlfriend… er, sexy lioness I live with… would probably disapprove and I respect her enough to avoid actually dating a female hairless ape, regardless of profession.

I mean really, my girlfriend… er, sexy lioness… puts up with all my strip clubbin’ and whorin’ and attending the rickbangs because, well, y’know… ricks gonna rick. Besides, I’m in an alcoholic fog like 95% of my life so who knows what the fuck I’m doin’? Not me that’s for sure.

Anyhoo, the point is that actually dating sexy female hairless apes doesn’t appeal. I’m a frickin’ lion after all. Now where the fuck is my drivin’ whiskey? ROAR!!!

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Just don’t fly Qantas, please, Rick

I could never forgive you if you ripped the guts out of that cute little bear

When it comes to dating, my policy is anyone willing. I came up with this policy after looking in the mirror one time.

I'm looking forward to my flight on Japan airlines.