American Hosties
Its quite sad the answer to the question, but American flight attendants are so old because their retirement schemes are so bad, and unfortunatly they have to carry on working well past their sell by dates. Thats what happens when big airlines decide to make cut backs. Also, basic pay for new entrant cabin crew is extremely low so not many people can afford to fly, AND with seniority, when you have crew who have been flying 60 years, to get onto any long haul flying will take decades!