{"id":4784,"date":"2026-05-15T00:20:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T04:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=4784"},"modified":"2025-12-12T20:09:52","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T01:09:52","slug":"ellen-church-became-the-first-woman-flight-attendant-in-1930","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=4784","title":{"rendered":"Ellen Church Became the First Woman Flight Attendant in 1930"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Ellen Church became the first woman flight attendant in 1930<\/strong>. The United Airlines employee flew from San Francisco, California, to Chicago, Illinois. The 20-hour flight stopped at numerous cities. Female flight attendants soon became more common, but they often had to help pilots, process luggage, and push airplanes into hangars. Children could read a <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>GREAT<\/strong><\/span> article about Church and early Sky Girls at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.faa.gov\/sites\/faa.gov\/files\/about\/history\/pioneers\/Ellen_Church_and_the_Advent_of_the_Sky_Girls.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ellen Church<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ellen Church became the first woman flight attendant in 1930. The United Airlines employee flew from San Francisco, California, to Chicago, Illinois. The 20-hour flight stopped at numerous cities. Female flight attendants soon became more common, but they often had to help pilots, process luggage, and push airplanes into hangars. Children could read a GREAT <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=4784' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[5324,618,1121,2036,2037,19,5547,2039,6532,2038],"class_list":["post-4784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-5324","tag-california","tag-chicago","tag-ellen-church","tag-first-woman-flight-attendant","tag-illinois","tag-may-15","tag-san-francisco","tag-sky-girls","tag-united-airlines","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4784"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25768,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4784\/revisions\/25768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}