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Bette Nash, who was as soon as named the world’s longest-serving flight attendant, has died. She was 88.
American Airways, Nash’s employer, introduced her passing on social media Saturday. The service famous Nash spent almost 70 years warmly caring for purchasers within the air.
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“Bette was a legend at American and all through the business, inspiring generations of flight attendants,” American wrote on Fb. “Fly excessive, Bette. We’ll miss you.”
In line with the Affiliation of Skilled Flight Attendants, which additionally shared a tribute to Nash on-line, Nash started her flight attendant profession with Jap Airways again in 1957. The union famous she was based mostly out of the Washington, D.C. space.
Nash’s place at Jap finally introduced her to American, which purchased out a lot of Jap’s routes in 1990.
Flight attendant Bette Nash poses on a airplane at Logan Worldwide Airport in Boston on Dec. 18, 2014. Nash, who was as soon as named the world’s longest-serving flight attendant, has died. She was 88. American Airways, Nash’s employer, introduced her passing on social media on Saturday. (AP Photograph Dina Rudick/Boston Globe through AP)
“Bette will at all times be an integral a part of our historical past, and he or she won’t be forgotten,” APFA said.
ABC Information reported Nash died on Might 17, in hospice care following a latest breast most cancers prognosis. She was nonetheless employed with American on the time of her loss of life, a spokesperson for the service advised The Related Press Tuesday.
In line with Guinness World Information, Nash was born on December 31, 1935 and started her flight attendant profession at 21. In 2022, Guinness named Nash the world’s longest-serving flight attendant — surpassing the earlier document one 12 months earlier, with 63 years and 61 days of service as of January 4, 2021.
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“I needed to be a flight attendant from the time I obtained on the primary airplane — I used to be 16 years outdated, I used to be sitting with my mom on a inexperienced leather-based sofa at Washington (Reagan Nationwide Airport),” Nash advised CNN in a 2016 interview, recalling the awe she felt upon seeing a flight crew stroll by.
Nash advised CNN that she utilized for the in-air job after graduating from school, “and the remainder is historical past.”
