When Southwest had the best uniforms
 

Yep, interesting start for an airline. Muse, Herb and King knew what sells. Always thought the link below was a good ad. Could have sworn there was a version of it using a real SWA F/A, but I guess not:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LU6t8GidFtY

Very subtle. :O Like the guy throwing a football through a tire for some erectile dysfunction drug.

The fathers day edition in the south should have been "Fly me daddy!"

I assume most of them still flying ;)

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

A bit conservative by Asian standards if you ask me ;-)

The Southwest airlines in flight magazine had an article about the original flight attendants a few months ago. Four of them are actually still flying for the airline! They showed a "then and now" comparison picture of one of them