Aviation News Update: Flight Attendant Retires &
Filed in archive Aviation News by Terah Shelton on November 30, 2007
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I missed.Flight attendant says goodbye after 50 years
When Patti Smart was hired as an Aloha Airlines stewardess 50 years ago, it was a different job for a different time. She rubbed elbows with Frank Sinatra, performed in-flight fashion shows and danced in smoke-filled aisles aboard cramped DC-3s seating two dozen passengers. Smart, nicknamed the "Queen of Aloha," retires Friday after more than a half-century on the job she started when she was 18 years old.
US Air CEO Gets 3 Year Contract Extension
US Airways Chief Executive Doug Parker has received a three-year contract extension until 2011 with no change to his salary, the airline said on Thursday. Parker, who oversaw the merger of the old US Airways and America West Airlines in 2005, will earn USD$550,000 in base salary. Terms for cash bonuses and incentive payments have not changed. In 2006, Parker received USD$880,000 cash bonus and a long-term incentive payment of USD$869,000, also in cash. He received other equity awards as well, the airline said.
Tests: No one got TB from air traveler
Tests of hundreds of airline passengers show that no one caught tuberculosis while flying earlier this year with an infected man who caused an international health scare when he flew to Europe for his wedding. About 250 U.S. passengers aboard a May 12 Air France flight from Atlanta to Paris have been tested for tuberculosis, according to preliminary data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. None - including 25 sitting nearest to TB patient Andrew Speaker - appear to have been infected during the flight.
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