ExDubai,
Some probably are...and a few of those in the pic aren't but now likely wish they were. They're all terrific ladies:
"Of the original flight attendants, 'everybody is a millionaire,' said one of them, Linda Pinka, 59."
" 'My friends who left early at Southwest regret it so much,' said Deborah Stembridge, who began as a flight attendant when the airline was just getting off the ground."
"Shares purchased for $10,000 in 1972 would be valued at about $12.6 million today."
"And Ms. Force, the one-time Esquire cover model, who is 61 and single, just completed chemotherapy for breast cancer and, after six months off, returned to work this month. She does not need the paycheck, with more than 100,000 shares of Southwest stock, valued at about $1.6 million."
This from circa 2006 but you'll get the gist:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/15/bu...ires.html?_r=0