An Embraer E-190 E2 aircraft featuring a spray painted tiger's face on the nose of the aircraft is displayed during a media preview of the Singapore Airshow February 4, 2018. (Photo by Edgar Su/Reuters)

Revellers attend the Saint Patrick's Day parade on March 17, 2019 in Dublin, Ireland. Saint Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland is celebrated around the world on St. Patrick's Day. According to legend Saint Patrick used the three-leaved shamrock to explain the Holy Trinity to Irish pagans in the 5th-century after becoming a Christian missionary. (Photo by Charles McQuillan/Getty Images)

Netherlands Antilles Sint Maarten – Boeing 747-400 of KLM in approach for the “Princess Juliana” airport on July 2, 2002. (Photo by LUPOO/Ullstein Bild via Getty Images)

Workers repair a damaged road, in the aftermath of an earthquake, near Anamizu, Japan on January 3, 202. (Photo by Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)

Hungarian pilot and European champion Zoltan Veres flies under the oldest Hungarian bridge, the “Lanchid” (Chain Bridge) with his “MXS” type plane on May 1, 2014 during a Red Bull flying and car show around the Danube River of Budapest downtown. (Photo by Attila Kisbenedek/AFP Photo)

Undated UK Ministry of Defence handout photo of an RAF Tornado GR4 which has been painted in Gulf War “desert pink” paint scheme to honour the aircraft type's almost continuous operational service since the Royal Air Force helped liberate Kuwait from Saddam Hussein's forces, taken by SAC Rose Buchanan, which has been shortlisted for the general public to pick their favourite RAF Image of the Year. (Photo by SAC Rose Buchanan/MoD Crown Copyright/PA Wire)

An Elvis impersonator is reflected in the window of the Elvis Express at Central Station in Sydney, Australia, on Thursday, January 5, 2023. Hundreds of Parkes Elvis Festival attendees will board the Elvis Express train from Sydney's Central Station on Thursday for a windy 450-kilometre journey to the central west. (Photo by Steven Saphore/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Photographer Brian Finke spent nearly two years traversing the friendly skies, following the life of flight attendants in the air and on the ground, from Delta and Hawaiian Air, to Hooters Air, Southwest, Air France, British Airways, Air Asia, and dozens more. His images of flight attendants waving, applying makeup and deboarding plans while smiling appear as if they were ripped from an advertisement in a glossy magazine. Here: Tiger Airways, Singapore, 2006. (Photo by Brian Finke/The Washington Post)