If the drop in the number of attendees at last year’s annual NBAA Flight Attendant Conference was a result of economic uncertainty, then perhaps the increase in attendees this year suggests a market recovery. Few would be willing to publicly embrace such a notion, but the fact remains that the 197 attendees at this year’s conference in Philadelphia was a healthy increase over the 149 who turned the stiles last year in Nashville, Tenn. It also represents an increase from the 177 who attended in 2001.
“It keeps getting better,” said Ann Holmes, TAG Aviation USA director of cabin standards. Holmes said five days after the convention she had already translated her notes into “a long Annie-gram” for the 120 corporate flight attendants who work full-time or on contract for the Burlingame, Calif. charter and aircraft management company. “The conference agenda touched on some very timely subjects,” she noted.
