nice one, ben5!
As you quite rightly point out, the job should be offered to those most capable of doing it. Perhaps the days of the blonde bombshell in the tight-fitting pencil skirt and stilettos have finally come to an end.
Judging by the type of passengers we now carry; perhaps the qualifications for the job should be a successful past career in wrestling or substance abuse counselling.
By the way, has anyone here ever been interviewed by an attractive flight attendant?