purser
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As stewardess and later purser on Air France airliners, Lainault clocked up 12,600 flight hours between 1989 and 2019.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
Laffey Inman fought to become the first female purser at what was then known as Northwest Orient Airlines.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 16, 2024
The place is run efficiently and with zest by veterans of South African Airways, Theunis Botha, who was a purser, and Denise Potter, who was an air hostess.
From New York Times ● Apr. 11, 2019
I’d look up from time to time, studying my fellow passengers and the crew: the captain in the wheelhouse, the purser counting the take.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 31, 2014
Our purser alone was to blame for what had occurred.
From The Cruise of the 'Alerte' The narrative of a search for treasure on the desert island of Trinidad by E. F. (Edward Frederick) Knight
“Those include the fish processing workers, U.S. Coast Guard licensed personnel, refrigeration specialists, marine electricians, fish crews, pursers, cooks and others.”
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 18, 2021
The Dubai-based company’s pursers are issued with Thinkpad laptops from Lenovo Group Ltd., the second-biggest maker of personal computers, that convert into tablets operated with a stylus.
From BusinessWeek ● Feb. 16, 2012
But "Skipper" Williams, never too proud to be a leg man, plods farther along, tracks down friendly captains, pursers, stewards, engineers.
From Time Magazine Archive
A troupe of Yemenite dancers walked ashore with their luggage on their heads, and pursers and stewards from the U.S.S.
From Time Magazine Archive
Harbormasters, tax farmers, customs sergeants, wool factors, toll collectors, pursers, wine factors; nine of every ten belonged to Littlefinger.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
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