Fly With Me | movie | 2024 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

Fly With Me tells the story of the pioneering young women who became flight attendants at a time when single women were  | dG1fRnlEWDJ3VjlpVjA

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00:00 [MUSIC]

00:07 Small town girls like me looked at a flight attendant and

00:10 thought that's the best job in the world.

00:12 The idea that I would get to fly around the world was just extraordinary.

00:18 Stewardesses were glamorous.

00:20 It just looked like the world was theirs, and I wanted that life.

00:24 But no other job offered as much freedom with such a high cost of conformity.

00:31 [MUSIC]

00:32 >> License and registration.

00:33 >> We were all supposed to look the same.

00:35 >> We looked like 20 mannequins.

00:37 I couldn't find myself in this photograph.

00:41 >> You couldn't be married, couldn't have children.

00:44 >> They weighed you in every month.

00:45 >> Just for one pound you could be taken off a payroll.

00:49 >> And the airline started adding the age rule too.

00:52 >> When you reach the age of 32, they just want to get rid of you.

00:56 >> They were being marketed basically as a Barbie doll.

00:59 >> They were selling sex instead of safety.

01:02 >> You had people try to squeeze past so they could fill your body.

01:06 >> I was the only student of color in the school.

01:09 She said the airlines do not hire Negroes.

01:11 I was determined that somebody of African American heritage was going to get this job.

01:17 [MUSIC]

01:19 >> I don't think we realized what a revolutionary thing we were doing.

01:23 >> The airlines had no idea what was coming.

01:26 >> That moment was a turning point for me.

01:29 >> I said to hell with this.

01:30 Why is it okay for a pilot to marry and not a stewardess?

01:34 >> And I thought about it.

01:36 Okay, you don't want me here?

01:38 Watch this.

01:39 [MUSIC]

01:41 >> These were not women who were setting out to break barriers for women.

01:44 They just wanted to keep their jobs.

01:47 >> Airlines hired these women who were independent and curious.

01:50 >> And it's amazing to me that airlines would expect that they would be a docile group.

01:54 [MUSIC]