Up in the Air: The Real Story of Life Aboard the World's Most Glamorous Airline

Although this is a book about life as a flight attendant with the world's most iconic and glamorous airline, Pan American World Airways, it is not just a chronology of airborne events. Instead it begins with Betty Riegel's description of leaving her home in the middle of the night, clutching her teddy and running with her Mother to an air raid shelter during war torn London. From humble working-class roots, growing up with a mother who struggled to make ends meet and a father away at war, s...