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~~ 39 “Air Lines Employ 286 Hostesses ww AIR COMMERCE BULLETIN Bureau of Air Commerce Ad sory Board Holds Firs Meeting As a medium through which the Bu- rean of Air Commerce can obtain the viewpoints and counsel.of other Fed- eral agencies having to do with acro- nauties and of national organizations representing the aerpnautics industry, the Department of Commerce has es- tablished a Bureau of Air Commerce Advisory Bonrd. The first meeting, held on Angust 6, was a luncheon at the Willard Hotel in Washington. Monthly meetings are planned with Secretary of Commerce Daniel C. Roper, Assistant Secretary of Com- merce J. Monroe Johnsen, and the members of the Bureau's own Policy Board representing the Departpfient. The Policy Board consists of Director of Air Commerce Fred D. Fagg, Jr., the Assistant Director, the Technical Assistant to the Director ond the ehlefs of the Bureau’s seven divisions. These meetings will be devoted te con- sideration of important pational aero- nautical problems and the formulation of national policies with respect there- The members of the Bureau Advi- sory Board are: Hon. R. Walton Moore, counsellor, De- partment of Stat e Hon. Stephen B. Gibbons, Assistant Sec- retary. Treasury Depariment. Gen. Oscar Westover, Chief of Alr Corps, War Department. Ho Harllee Branch, Second Assistant Postmaster General, Post Office Department. Admiral Arthur B. Cook, Chief, Bureau of Aeronautics, Navy Department. Hon. Willis R. Gregg. Chief, Weather Tureau, Department of Agriculture, Hon Carrell Miller, chairman, Interstate Commerce Commission. Dr. George W. Lewis, Director of Aero- nautic Research, Nationa] Advisory Com- mittee for Aeronautics. Hon. Corrington Gill, Assistant Admin- istrator, Works Progress Administration. Rear Admiral Emory 8, Land, member, United States Maritime Commission. Hon. Gill Robb Wilson, president, Na- tional Association of State Aviation Of- ficlais. Hon. Charles F. Horner, president, Na- tional Aeronautic Association. Hon. Andrew Joyner, Jr., president, American Municipal ssociation. Hop. Leighton W. Rogers. president, Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce, Hon, Wm, A. Schnader, chairman, Com- mittee on Aerotautical Law, American Bar Association, Dr. W, W. Arrasmith, president, Avia- tion Commission, American Legion. Col. Robcrt G. Hilbert, chairman, Business Advisory Council. M James E. Hosking, chairman, Avia- tion Committee, Actuarial Seclety of Amer- ica “Col. Edgar 5S. Gorrell, president, Air Transport Association of America. ) and 105 Stewards There are 280 Foung women em- ployed as hostesses, nnd 105 men em- ployed as stewards on American-oper- ated air linea, according to the most recent reports from the lines to the Bureau of Air Commerce, Department of Commerce. Seven domestic air Vener amenhae hostess * ott ines employ hostesses. One domestic line and two lines extending to foreign countriea employ stewards. In October 1936 there were 276 host- esses, all on domestic lines. There was male steward on a domestic air linc at that time and there were 41 stcew- ards on foreign extensions. The air lines which have hostesses on their airplanes include American Airlines, Braniff Airways, Grand Can- yon Airlines, National Airlines Sys- tem, Transcontinental & Western Air, United Air Lines, and Western Air Ex- press, Eastern Air Lines employs 43 stewards and Pan American Airways, operating to Latin America and across the Pacific, has 51 stewards; Pan American Groce, 11 stewards. The Bureau of Air Commerce has no jurisdiction over hostesses and stew- ards, as it does with respect to quali- fieations of pilots and dispatchers, and airworthiness of equipment, but does request the lines to include in their re- ports the number of hostesses and stewards employed. Advisory Committee Formed to Assist in Civil Airway Opera- tion Problems An Airways Operation Advisory Com- mittee has been organized under the sponsorship of the Bureau of Air Cont- merce for the purpose of securing the best thoughts of flight sections of the various aviation interests throughout the United States, looking toward a long-time planning program for the operation of the civil airways of this country. The various aviation groups con- cerned were asked to designate repre- sentatives on the committee in order that problems peculiar to each of them would be given consideration in the final recommendations made to the Sec- retary of Commerce for guidance in the issuance of necessary instructions to those operating, as well as using the civil airways and the facilities thereon. As an illustration of problems before the committee, it must consider whether. or not, under certain condi- Se en rete tami ete en te