flight attendant
noun
: a person who attends passengers on an airplane
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the Web Accompanied by her sister Bonny Jacobs, a United Airlines flight attendant, Dr. Biden paid special tribute in her remarks to members of the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA. 
Ginger Adams Otis, WSJ, 11 Sep. 2022 Mineta married Danealia Brantner, a United Airlines flight attendant, in 1991 and seemed set to solidify his position of legislative power when Republicans gained the majority in Congress in the 1994 elections. Wire Reports, oregonlive, 3 May 2022 American Airlines flight attendant smashes coffee pot on passenger trying to open exit door. Laura L. Davis, USA TODAY, 15 Feb. 2022 The incident echoed one from earlier this year in which a Southwest Airlines flight attendant lost several teeth after a passenger allegedly punched her in the face. BostonGlobe.com, 29 Oct. 2021 Someone, either the elderly woman or the gate agent, told a flight attendant why the man in seat 3A was weeping. Neal Rubin, Detroit Free Press, 21 Aug. 2022 The woman swatted away the man’s hand, alerted a flight attendant and yelled for her husband, who was sitting across the aisle with the couple’s other young child. Julian Mark, Washington Post, 2 June 2022 An airline heiress makes a taxiing passenger plane return to the gate to remove a flight attendant who rubbed her the wrong way. New York Times, 26 May 2022 Later, as the plane was making its final descent, Stone approached the front, pushed a flight attendant into a galley wall and then breached the main cabin door to the outside, the document says. NBC News, 3 May 2022 See More
Ginger Adams Otis, WSJ, 11 Sep. 2022 Mineta married Danealia Brantner, a United Airlines flight attendant, in 1991 and seemed set to solidify his position of legislative power when Republicans gained the majority in Congress in the 1994 elections. Wire Reports, oregonlive, 3 May 2022 American Airlines flight attendant smashes coffee pot on passenger trying to open exit door. Laura L. Davis, USA TODAY, 15 Feb. 2022 The incident echoed one from earlier this year in which a Southwest Airlines flight attendant lost several teeth after a passenger allegedly punched her in the face. BostonGlobe.com, 29 Oct. 2021 Someone, either the elderly woman or the gate agent, told a flight attendant why the man in seat 3A was weeping. Neal Rubin, Detroit Free Press, 21 Aug. 2022 The woman swatted away the man’s hand, alerted a flight attendant and yelled for her husband, who was sitting across the aisle with the couple’s other young child. Julian Mark, Washington Post, 2 June 2022 An airline heiress makes a taxiing passenger plane return to the gate to remove a flight attendant who rubbed her the wrong way. New York Times, 26 May 2022 Later, as the plane was making its final descent, Stone approached the front, pushed a flight attendant into a galley wall and then breached the main cabin door to the outside, the document says. NBC News, 3 May 2022 See More Word History
First Known Use
1947, in the meaning defined above