Two Air Hostesses On Exchange “Bonanza”

Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30575, 19 October 1964, Page 2

Two Air Hostesses On Exchange “Bonanza”

[By the London Correspondent of "The Preet’’]

LONDON, October 12. Miss Jacquelin Miller, a 23-year-old air hostess, of Wellington, will receive a “bonanza” later this month arising from the National Airways Corporation’s complement of Fokker Friendship aircraft in its passenger fleet.

The bonanza is a trip to the United States where she will work from October 28 to November 19, as part of an exchange hostess programme between N.A.C. and the Bonanza Air Lines.

The Bonanza Air Lines have headquarters in Las Vegas and provide mainly short haul air services in the American south-west.

They are one of the largest users of the Fokker F 27 aircraft in the world, possessing a fleet of 11 Silver Darts (the American version of the Dutch Friendship). Because of this, N.A.C. is regarded as a sister airline. The Silver Dart is manufactured in the United States under licence from Fokker Aircraft Company, of Holland.

Bonanza began exchanging hostesses with other Friendship airlines outside the United States in 1961. In that year and again in 1962, the programme was with the Aloha Air Lines, of Honolulu, Hawaii Last year, a hostess was exchanged with Thai International Airlines, of Bangkok, Thailand. While Miss Miller is overseas, a blonde hostess from Phoenix, Arizona, will be representing Bonanza Air Lines in New Zealand. She is Miss Barbara McGahan. MANY CITIES

Both girls will serve as extra hostesses on board scheduled flights so that they may tell passengers about their home country. They will visit the majority of cities served by the air lines

and assist in promotional activities.

Arrangements have been made for Miss Miller to meet the governors, or their representatives of each of the four States served by Bonanza, and to meet the mayors of all cities on the airline’s system. Included in the regular services of the airline are Salt Lake City, Grand Canyon, Reno, Las Vegas, San Diego, Phoenix and Los Angeles. Miss Miller will see

a good deal of desert cactus and the former “badlands.”

Miss Miller joined N.A.C. In Wellington after leaving school, served as a cleric for nine months and then became secretary in the district pilots’ office. MANY AWARDS

In April, 1962, she was appointed as a hostess, and promoted to the post of training hostess in May of this year. She has received many awards for her participation in swimming meetings and is also a tennis enthusiast

The American hostess, Miss McGahan, is 27 years old and attended Ohio State University and Phoenix College. She has been employed by Bonanza as a hostess for four years, and before that worked as a public relations representative with the Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Company, in Phoenix, for three and a half years. She is a swimming and golf enthusiast