Female cabin staff is a well known fringe benefit on long haul flights, for the pilots. They have it easy because most of the male cabin crew are gay.
It's not as good as it used to be, reportedly, with present day employment laws, although Virgin are said to be still hanging in there, upholding the old standards.
The PPL scene, with its decrepit aircraft and anoraks everywhere is a far cry from the glamour of flying to far away places, for a gurl whose alternative job is a working as a waitress in a coffee bar and who is probably hoping to end up with a bloke with a stable highly paid job.