Operational History
The Model 80 carried out its first scheduled mail and passenger service for Boeing Air Transport on September 20, 1928, and soon proved successful. The improved Model 80A entered service in September 1929.
In May 1930, Boeing Air Transport introduced female flight attendants, hiring eight, including chief stewardess Ellen Church, all unmarried registered nurses. with the first flights carrying stewardesses beginning on May 15. The Model 80 and 80A remained in service with Boeing Air Transport (later renamed United Airlines) until replaced by the Boeing 247 twin-engined monoplane in 1934.
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