Sylvain writes:

indeed. But we (macho chauvinistic pigs) were hoping that they would have
retired by now and replaced by younger / attractive generations :-)

In the early days of aviation there were mostly young FAs because aviation was
itself too young to produce old FAs, at least in any quantity.

Now, decades later, there have been many thousands of FAs working for decades
and so the number of older FAs with substantial seniority has greatly
increased. For FAs, seniority is everything, since once one has learned to
carry out the job competently, there are no other criteria of advancement (the
job can only be done so well).

Seniority is important for pilots, too, but there are other factors. Piloting
is a job in which one learns indefinitely from experience, so that's a factor.
Also, pilots are required to retire at a fairly young age, which prevents
seniority from becoming too much of an issue.

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