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* Three stewardesses (stewardii?) in ''Boeing Boeing''.

* ABC's period drama ''PanAm'' centers on the Pan Am stewardesses during the 1960s. All of them are beautiful and the show makes point of how they were forced to appear and behave like for the job.

* ABC's period drama ''PanAm'' will center around Maggie, one of their stewardesses, and likely more of her colleagues.

* ''DoctorWho''. Tegan Jovanka, Australian companion of the Fifth Doctor. Actress Janet Fielding was actually too short to be a stewardess, so she falsely claimed that Australian airlines had shorter minimal height requirements.

* ABC's upcoming period drama ''Pan Am'' will center around Maggie, one of their stewardesses, and likely more of her colleagues.

* The title heroine of ''JackieBrown'' may be considered a partial subversion, as the flight attendant is in breach of standard canons of beauty, but still sexy in her own way.

Despite what many believe, flight attendants in RealLife are primarily there ''to save your life'', not to pour you coffee or look sexy. The number one factor determining whether passengers actually survive a "survivable" accident is the response of the flight attendants. It's well known in the aviation safety industry that airlines which choose their flight attendants based on looks are less safe than those that hire attendants based on ability. Had [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_France_Flight_358 the Air France crash in Toronto]] (where everyone survived) occurred on Singapore Airlines, it's likely everyone on board would have died an agonizing fiery death.

** Moreover, early commercial airlines created this trope in the first place because they found that when ''male'' flight attendants instructed passengers in proper safety procedures, it tended to scare people off. Hiring pretty blondes who could play-act at being glorified cocktail waitresses ensured that sky-wary customers were DistractedByTheSexy, not fretting about whether or not they'd make it to their destinations alive.

* Played with in the SoBadItsHorrible ''{{A View from the Top}}'': The flight attendant heroines, in one of their early jobs, are pretty much dressed like streetwalkers and eventually escape to a better airline. Depending on what you think of Christina Applegate, Kelly Preston and Gwyneth Paltrow, it might even be played straight, but this does not dull the pain of watching.

* In ''CatchMeIfYouCan'', Frank Abagnale hires young women to pose as sexy flight attendants to complete his impersonation of an airliner pilot.

* The {{Franco-Belgian comics}} series ''Natacha'' (see image) is about the adventures of a sexy flight attendant.
* While doing a favor for an aging crime boss (don't ask), this was once attempted on Spider-Man. Since this happened during the period he and Mary-Jane were back together, the results were quite humorous.

* A pair of attractive attendants come on the Brett Grayle in the first ''Damnation Station'' strip. Grayle later turns out to be gay, but does seem to be pleased with the attention.

* Played with in the SoBadItsHorrible ''A View from the Top'': The flight attendant heroines, in one of their early jobs, are pretty much dressed like streetwalkers and eventually escape to a better airline. Depending on what you think of Christina Applegate, Kelly Preston and Gwyneth Paltrow, it might even be played straight, but this does not dull the pain of watching.

* Jeri Ryan plays one of these as a minor character in ''Down With Love''.

* In the 1960s farce ''Boeing Boeing'', the hero is dating three international stewardesses who don't know about each other, since they're never in town at the same time.

* Doralice Prunelier in ''Fascination''. She becomes a captain in the sequel ''Lost in Time''.

* The video for Britney Spears' "Toxic". [[OrSoIHeard Or so I...]] [[GuiltyPleasures yeah, all right, I watched it.]]

Flight attendants are glamorous, and in popular culture are often depicted as attractive. TruthInTelevision for a long time, as airlines once insisted on specific physical standards when hiring women for the job. In many western countries, this is no longer legal. A series of US court decisions in the 60's and 70's found airlines in that country liable for grounding flight attendants as they aged, gained weight, or became pregnant.

* "Air Hostess/I like the way you dress/yada yada yada"... I think it's by Busted, [[OrSoIHeard not that I know who they are of course]].