The Airhostess Song

[Joles]

Hi All,

This is from one armchair aviation enthusiast (SLF), for all of you.

Since I do hop around the country ( in India) quite a bit, I composed the following ditty across 4 flights criss-crossing the countryside- an ode to all the airhostesses who've flown with me and who ever will !

(The brackets indicate the sectors and the date and are not a part of the song,!) ( The gender specificness is due to the nature of the song and the ditty applies to male members of the crew as well)

Do let me have your brickbats


THE AIRHOSTESS SONG

There's a new light shining at 30,000 feet
An' you know it aint from the stars,
There's a beautiful smile going up and down the aisle
And you know its straight from the heart
( 9W842 CCU to MAA 12/08)


She's walking on air, with her feet on the ground
Before you know it she's by your side
As she hands out stuff folks are gonna need
If they want a comfortable ride
( DN 623 CCU to DEL 28/12)

She's smiling at you as she passes by
An' your wish is her supreme commmand
When you say" Thank you", please look her in the eye
And sure mean it with all your heart
( DN 623 CCU to DEL 24/12)

She's the first to greet you as you arrive
And the last to bid you goodbye
And when you're leaving, she's really, really hoping
" You've had a wonderful flight"
( 9W842 CCU to MAA 12/08)

(C)AM 2006

PS : IMHO this is the first song worldwide that has been composed entirely at altitudes of over 30,000 ft. All copyright rests with the author !

Cheers
Joles

[Gem gem]

I am Gem gem! I am loving your song. I own a recording stuff...
How would you like to put that onto a CD?????

Thats all.

Gem gem xXx

[Joles]

Sounds like a good idea, just that I live in India so how does one do this ?
Cheers and KBSA

Joles

[Lord Snot]

I am Lord Snot.

I would like to know just which air hostesses you were picturing when you wrote that song because not many I know walk up and down the aisles smiling.
she's really, really hoping You've had a wonderful flight :rolleyes: Sounds like Qantas.....

[Dogs_ears_up]

Am I alone in really disliking the phrase "Air Hostess": Maybe it's a generation thing or something? To me, "Hostess" carries a side meaning of Hooker. It also fails to describe the job in modern terms - Modern crew are many things, and have many talents, but hostessing isn't really the word (nor is hooking!!)

Stewardess, if you must - I'd prefer Flight Attendant or Cabin Crew and can deal with the full range of less attractive epithets - but never Hostess.

P.S. Does that make male crew "Air Hosts"? :uhoh:

[ricciricardo]

Way in the G'O'D's An airhostess was just that; meet greet, mums and babies,
hair and makeup, Stewards on the other hand, delivered the food service, made the cocktails and all the other dirty work.
Even the pay scale differed.

[Joles]

Hi all !

I stole some poetic license !

"The Song of the People Who Serve You Food and Things" would sound like a bad East Asian translation of something equally horrendous and incomprehensible !:confused:

And yes, a lot of hosties DO smile at me ! :)

Have you tried smiling at a grumpy hostess at the end of a long day, at the end of her tether with cranky babies, old fogies and mindless yuppies all day ? You'd get either surprise, or the best service on that flight !

The idea was to combine the charm of the G'O'D's with the functions they do today ! :ok:

Cheers
Joles

[Lord Snot]

You're living in a dream-world.

If you smile at a Qantas hostoid they will taze you. That's if you see one during the flight.

But to answer the question, no you are not alone in liking the term Air Hostess. Amazing how it hangs in there year after year. It really says something. The whole world loves using it as evidenced but the number of times you hear it.

[Joles]

Speaking of which I actually heard a hostie use the term " hatrack" on a recent flight to CCU !

I thought that was more 60'ish ! :cool:

And no I wasn't speaking of the Quantas ones anyways. In India, quite contrary to what I see in the US and Europe, the CC has an average age of 27-28 and they are pretty eager to do a good job ! Hence I come across more smiling ones than the regular international traveller.

Managed to make a Delta hostie on a red-eye flight actually laugh once ! ;)

Cheers
Joles