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Steven Slater
Do flight attendants really hate their passengers?
Do flight attendants really hate their passengers?

When, exactly, did flight attendants stop caring about us? I ask for two reasons: First, because of the luscious new trailers for the upcoming TV show "Pan Am," which depicts svelte young stewardesses -- yes, that's what they were called back then -- serving passengers. Hard to swallow, that one. But yes, they served passengers back in the day. And second, because of the preponderance of horror stories from readers like you that suggest things have gone too far in the other direction -- from the "coffee, tea, or me" stereotypes of pre-deregulation air travel to modern-day flight attendants who may actually hate us. Well, "hate" may be too strong a word....