History Main / SexyStewardess

* Most recently, an Air France stewardess and flight crew were suspended after routine checking of internal CCTV from the flight revealed the stewardess had perfomed a striptease in the cabin, cheered on by captain, co-pilot and flight engineer. Apparently the plane was on autopilot while the pilot and co-pilot's attention had been distracted. But the [[http://www.takeofftube.com/view/408/Hostess%20fimed%20stripping%20in%20cockpit%20during%20flight/ film]] still escaped onto Website/YouTube and elsewhere...

* ''Series/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.

'''Peach:''' [[UsefulNotes/{{Feminism}} I take offense to that!]] [[LampshadeHanging Just because I'm a woman does not make me a sky waitress!]]\\

'''Flight Attendant:''' Hey, and while you're at it, you can get yer ''own'' peanuts and refreshments! [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere This sky waitress is outta here!]]

'''Peach:''' [[UsefulNotes/{{Feminism}} That is so offensive!]] [[LampshadeHanging Just because I'm a woman does not make me a sky waitress!]]\\

* [[{{Deconstruction}} Deconstructed]] in [[WebAnimation/TheAnnoyingOrange The High Fructose Adventures of Annoying Orange]]. When Orange and the gang take a flight to Donkey Island to avoid being blended by famed blender manufacturer [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Mr. Juicy Fun]], the cast takes some potshots at this trope.

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* "Airline Amy" by Music/WeirdAlYankovic.
* "I'm Mandy, fly me." by 10cc
* The above-quoted "Waitress in the Sky" by The Replacements is a cynical skewering of this trope.

* Music/{{Edguy}}'s "Lavatory Love Machine" is about screwing a stewardess in the lavatory of a crashing plane, so naturally a sexy stewardess appears in the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-y3CMlvrkN0 music video]].

--->Martin: For two very different reasons, neither Arthur nor Carolyn quite float my boat.

* A quick joke on a Creator/GeorgeCarlin record: "Please return the stewardess to her original upright position."

* In ''Theatre/CactusFlower'', Julian describes to Harvey an anonymous airline stewardess for whom he canceled a date with Toni to see instead: "Spectacular looking. A Swedish blonde. Tall. Built. We went to her place, we had a few drinks..." Harvey is eager to find out what happened next, and is disappointed to hear that Julian he walked out on her after suddenly thinking of Toni. At the end of the play, Stephanie receives a phone call from "a stewardess from Swedish Airlines" (likely the same young woman) suggesting an evening date with Julian, who says to Stephanie: "Tell her I've been grounded." (The movie makes the stewardess Australian to preserve Creator/IngridBergman's local monopoly on Swedishness.)

* Doralice Prunelier in ''Fascination''. She becomes a captain in the sequel ''Lost in Time''.
* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXII'' is the first game in the series to feature airports, so naturally, it also features flight attendants. They sell you stuff and kick off a sidequest.

* Kanako Oomori from ''Manga/CageOfEden''. She is a beauty stewardess (nad the most buxom character in the story) and for nearly all the story wears her flight attendant uniform.

* 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.
* Tilly Clipper in the longest ComicStrip/NickKnatterton saga, ''The Indian Diamond Suitcase''.
* ComicBook/IronMan: Tony Stark's private flight attendants are so sexy, they double as go-go dancers.
* ''ComicBook/AlanFord'': Volume 443 has an attractive Japanese stewardess who's the pilot's girlfriend, but cheats on him with other passengers. Later he gets a new stewardess in Ingrid, a {{Bifauxnen}} scandinavian who openly flirts with the female protagonist Minuette, [[MileHighClub inviting her for sex after spiking the drinks of the other passengers.]]

* Played with in ''Film/ViewFromTheTop'': 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.
* The title heroine of ''Film/JackieBrown'' may be considered a double subversion, as the flight attendant is in breach of standard canons of beauty, but still sexy in her own way.

* Catherine Zeta-Jones in ''Film/TheTerminal''.

* In ''Film/CatchMeIfYouCan'', Frank Abagnale hires young women to pose as sexy flight attendants to complete his impersonation of an airliner pilot and distract the police and FBI agents looking for him.

* Film/AustinPowers, after demanding "Bring on the Sexy Stews!", is informed by a miffed female flight attendant that they're not called that anymore.
* ''Getting Any?'' by Takeshi Kitano.
* ''Film/DownWithLove'': Ladies' man Catcher Block goes out with three separate stewardesses while trying to avoid interviewing Barbara Novak. Turns out the stewardesses all work together and none of them are particularly happy when they discover that he's seduced all of them.

* In the French movie ''[[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083618/ Banzaï]]'', the protagonist's LoveInterest is such a stewardess. He convinces her to leave her job before they'd marry, since he hates going abroad. Then he is forced by his job to travel around the world, and run into his fiancée in Hong Kong....
* Tiffany and Claire from ''Film/SnakesOnAPlane''--Tiffany even unbuttons her shirt. The other two flight attendants are Grace--who's [[RetIrony nearing retirement]]--and [[MistakenForGay Ken]].

* Three stewardesses in ''Boeing Boeing'' (see Theatre).
* The flight attendants (one of whom is seduced by Ruby Rhod) in ''Film/TheFifthElement''.
* In ''Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star'' Dickie realizes that he no longer wants fame, fortune or meaningless sex when he is propositioned by two sexy stewardesses, yet finds that he is not interested in sleeping with them. In a ShoutOut, they approach him by asking if he wants "Coffee, Tea or Me?" (Or "Us"), which was the name of a series of novels about two sexy stewardesses published in the 1970's (See Literature section).
* In ''Party Plane'', the stewardesses double as in-flight strippers.

* The ''Coffee, Tea or Me?'' novels, which were also made into a TV movie.

* A Harlequin Romance back in the 80s both played and subverted this trope. The heroine is a former stewardess who becomes a Ranger at the Grand Canyon, and when one too many people gets catty, she then proceeds to describe the average shift: very long hours on her feet while wearing high heels, walking back and forth (I forget the number of miles she quoted, but I looked it up at the time and found it was accurate), and some airlines did have rules forbidding stewardesses from sitting while on shift. When asked about the makeup, she points out that she is a natural blonde and has to wear sunscreen if she don't want to burn like cheap meat.
* Two are featured at the end of ''[[Franchise/FridayThe13th Friday The 13th The Jason Strain]]'', and were presumably hired by [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Caleb Carson]] simply for their looks. Jason hacks one to death, and stabs the other in the face with a broken bottle.
* Stanley Morgan's ''The Fly Boys'' series features the exploits of the staff of Glamour Airlines, an on-the-way-out airline renamed and revamped by a new owner on the principle that SexSells. The new uniforms "are silver lamé and sequins -- and that's just the men... the hostesses are in candy-striped bikinis and see-through skirts."

* ''Series/ThePersuaders'': Brett Sinclair's own private flight attendants were also obviously hired for their looks and their, er, friendliness.
* On an episode of the American version of ''{{Series/Life on Mars|2008}}'', Annie assumes the identity of a dead flight attendant. Everyone who works with Annie is attractive (as is she), and most are fairly kinky, too.
* Played with in ''Series/SexAndTheCity'' where Miranda has no success in a speed dating event by saying she's a lawyer. Once she says she's a stewardess, the guy's immediately interested and she spends the rest of the episode in that persona, making up stories, etc. Then when she cuts her finger rather badly, the guy gets freaked out by the sight of blood and reveals that he's not actually a doctor but said so because he always wanted to date a stewardess.

* One of these, murdered in 1960, was the VictimOfTheWeek in the ''Series/ColdCase'' episode "Wings".

* ABC's period drama ''Series/PanAm'' centers on the Pan Am stewardesses during the 1960s. All of them are beautiful and the show makes a point of how they were forced to appear and behave for the job.
* Provenza and Flynn get taken for a ride by a pair of sexy stewardesses in ''Series/TheCloser'' episode "Layover".

* ''Series/{{SCTV}}'' - 'Monster Chiller Horror Theater' presented 'Dr. Tongue's 3-D House of Stewardesses'. It wasn't really scary, but that didn't bother the host. (Note: there was an actual late-60s 3-D skin flick called 'The Stewardesses'.)
* ''Series/{{Banacek}}'': Banacek's GirlOfTheWeek in "Fly Me -- If You Can Find Me" is a sexy stewardess: one of the two very attractive flight attendants who were on the stolen plane.
* Discussed in ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'', when Barney says that every generation has one profession that young, impossibly hot women all flock to. Naturally, this one comes up, along with {{Hospital Hottie}}s. According to Barney, here in TheNewTens, they're all pharmaceutical representatives now. (TruthInTelevision, actually.)
* While at times downplayed and other times emphasized, the short-lived series ''Flying High'' had a trio of them. Even the pilot captain noticed.

* In ''Series/ThePartridgeFamily'', Reuben's girlfriend Bonnie Kleinschmidt wears her short-skirted uniform even when off duty.

-->'''Leela:''' There. It was hard work, but it beats posing in demeaning, skimpy modelling outfits.
-->'''Professor Farnsworth:''' Ladies, here are your demeaning, skimpy stewardess outfits.

* Franchise/IronMan: Tony Stark's private flight attendants are so sexy, they double as go-go dancers.

* Machiko from ''Manga/MaicchinguMachikoSensei'' in episode 31, for the joy of male students and co-worker, with MaleGaze and PantyShot included.

Compare FanServiceWithASmile, as well as FairCop and HospitalHottie for two other "life and safety" professions that are commonly fetishized in popular media. For the RealLife history of the trope, see Analysis.SexyStewardess.

* April in ''Theatre/{{Company}}''.

* Jeri Ryan plays one of these as a minor character in ''Film/DownWithLove''.

* Played with in ''Film/AViewFromTheTop'': 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.

* On an episode of the American version of ''{{Life on Mars|2008}}'', Annie assumes the identity of a dead flight attendant. Everyone who works with Annie is attractive (as is she), and most are fairly kinky, too.

** Early in the aviation business, this made sense. Lifting capacities of planes were limited, and it made business and safety sense to have small, thin, women as stewardesses.
*** Moreover, hiring pretty young women to convey instructions on what to do in the event of an emergency landing kept travelers too DistractedByTheSexy to be scared off the plane altogether (which actually did happen sometimes with male flight attendants, early on).

* Two are featured at the end of ''Literature/FridayThe13thTheJasonStrain'', and were presumably hired by [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Caleb Carson]] simply for their looks. Jason hacks one to death, and stabs the other in the face with a broken bottle.

* In the original short story "[[Literature/ForYourEyesOnly Quantum of Solace]]", Literature/JamesBond comments on how he wished he could marry a flight attendant.

* Three stewardesses in ''Boeing Boeing''.

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

* Anesthesia's [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TT_uzXF8jGc superstar persona]] in ''RumbleRoses XX''.

* While at times downplayed and other times emphasized, the short-lived series ''Flying High'' had a trio of them. Even the pilot captain noticed.