A friend has recently retired from a long career as cabin crew with BA. She was on the old contract which was much more generous than today’s and latterly she worked in First Class, having her pick of flights for her work and then free flights for herself and family. Her daughter, who was at school with my youngest, had seen lots of cities on flying (ha, see what I did there! ) visits by the time she was 18. Her brother has trained as a pilot now.
The scariest cabin crew we’ve come across were with Icelandair in the 1990’s. They only seemed to employ fearsome-looking middle aged women who ran an extremely tight ship…um…airplane. There’d be no trouble from drunks on planes if they crewed all aircraft. 😂