{"id":24503,"date":"2019-11-29T15:13:32","date_gmt":"2019-11-29T20:13:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indianeagle.com\/travelbeats\/?p=24503"},"modified":"2022-03-01T14:43:37","modified_gmt":"2022-03-01T19:43:37","slug":"air-india-women-crew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indianeagle.com\/travelbeats\/air-india-women-crew\/","title":{"rendered":"Air India Hostesses: Most Glamorous Women of the 60s and 70s with Dark Side to Their Jet-setting Career"},"content":{"rendered":"
In the golden age of air travel, Air India was far ahead of its contemporaries, including British Airways and American Airlines. Today\u2019s cash-strapped airline was once unrivaled in advertising its uniqueness, selling its flights, pampering travelers on board, perfecting every detail, and pooling air hostesses.<\/strong> So unapologetic was legendary aviator JRD Tata\u2019s obsession with perfection and excellence that first-time flyers were required to be familiar with \u201cAir India etiquette\u201d regarding dress code, bathroom manners, dining manners and on-board behavior through an illustrated booklet called \u2018Better Acquainted.\u2019<\/p>\n Though the Maharaja (male emperor) became the mascot of Air India in 1946, it was the finest breed of air hostesses in flamboyant uniforms and with an inimitable aura of sophistication, who held the attraction of Air India flights in the bygone days<\/a><\/span>. The glamour of \u2018Air India women\u2019 and the luxury of flying the national airline were synonymous back then.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n <\/p>\n In the pre-liberalization era of free India, Air India was liberal in featuring sensual dusky beauties in some of the best advertisements with bold slogans, <\/strong>which was unimaginable for rival airlines of the time. Shrugging off every bit of conservatism, Air India made Zeenat Aman, the Miss Asia-Pacific 1970 and a dusky sensation of her time, the face of one such historic advertisement in a country like India where ubiquitous obsession with fair skin was compounded by the launch of Fair & Lovely (a fairness cream) in 1975.<\/p>\n