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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
air hostess
noun
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▪ As she might have expected, it was almost empty, except for an air hostess sitting on the toilet, smoking.
▪ Beryl was an air hostess belonging to a rival airline he had met at the John F. Kennedy Airport.
▪ But he is found by the air hostess and bustled on board.
▪ Carl looked up and saw the young air hostess staring at them.
▪ Finally, I offered to become an air hostess to pay my way, and this time, received an immediate reply.
▪ She told Nigel proudly that Alison could have been anything she wanted, even an air hostess.
▪ We are not told how these risks compare with, say, working as an air hostess, or as a policewoman.
▪ When Kylie returns as an air hostess for Spinning, the world suddenly seems perfect again.
Wiktionary
air hostess

n. A female flight attendant.

WordNet
air hostess

n. a woman steward on an airplane [syn: stewardess, hostess]

Wikipedia
Air Hostess (song)

"Air Hostess" is a song by English pop rock band Busted. Composed by the band along with Tom Fletcher of McFly, it was released on 26 April 2004 as the third single from their second studio album A Present for Everyone (2003), and reached number two on the UK Singles Chart.

Air Hostess (disambiguation)

An air hostess is a female flight attendant.

Air Hostess may also refer to:

  • "Air Hostess" (song), a 2004 song by Busted
  • Air Hostess (TV series), a 1986 Hindi TV series
  • Air Hostess (1933 film), a film written by Keene Thompson
  • Air Hostess (1949 film) a 1949 film
  • Air Hostess (1959 film), or Kong zhong xiao jie, a Hong Kong film of 1959
  • Air Hostess (1980 film), a Malayalam-language film
Air Hostess (1933 film)

Air Hostess is a 1933 American Pre-Code aviation-themed melodrama based on a serial published in a 1919 True Story Magazine article called Air Hostess by Grace Perkins, also known as Dora Macy. Director Albert Rogell who had moved from shorts to B-films, had been interested in aviation having already helmed a similar feature, The Flying Marine (1929). In Air Hostess, the studio had attempted to merge flying and romance. Advertising stressed, "A date in the skies ... a rendezvous in the heavens...where love zooms with thrill after thrill ... but finds a happy landing!"

Evalyn Knapp plays a TWA air hostess attracted to a grandstanding pilot, despite the better advice of the blind mechanic and other employees who watch over her. (In reality, TWA did not initiate the use of air hostesses until 1935, when the Douglas DC-2 was introduced.) Knapp was being touted as a future star, with a starring role in Sinner's Holiday (1930), but eventually lost her A-status and was relegated to such B-fare as Air Hostess.

James Murray appears here five years after his triumph in The Crowd. Another notorious drinker and former baseball star Mike Donlin appears as "Mike", a few months before his fatal heart attack.

Air Hostess (TV series)

Air Hostess was a Hindi TV series which was aired on DD National in 1986. It featured Kitu Gidwani in the lead role. It showed a typical life of an air hostess in India. The show had two female leads, Kruttika Desai and Kitu Gidwani.

Air Hostess (1980 film)

Air Hostess is a 1980 Indian Malayalam film, directed by P Chandrakumar and produced by Issac Jacob. The film stars Prem Nazir, Rajani Sharma, Jagathy Sreekumar and Jose Prakash in lead roles. The film had musical score by Salil Chowdhary.