The "Boeing" of Flight Attendants

Boeing rights a wrong: the flight attendant button - chicagotribune.com: "Usually located next to the reading light button and often indistinguishable from it, the dreaded button causes flight attendants to make countless pointless trips down the aisles every day, only to hear embarrassed passengers say they were just trying to switch on the light.

Not for much longer. The new interior design for Boeing's 737 passenger jet, the best-selling plane in aviation history, includes an innovation that is as radical as it is obvious: a flight attendant button that is situated well away from the reading light button and actually looks different from it.

“I feel we came up with a really good improvement,” Beverly Wyse, Boeing's General Manager for the 737 programme, told reporters at the Paris Air Show."