Answer: These days working as an air hostess is Ḥarām and leads to Hell because unveiling is a condition in this profession. She is also officially required to travel with non-Maḥram men without her husband or any Maḥram man.
Question: Can a male passenger ask an airhostess for assistance or not?
Answer: Any modest and decent man can ask his conscience for the answer to this question. It is obvious that it is unsafe to unnecessarily request water, cold drink, tea, coffee, food etc. from an unveiled woman who has been specifically trained to speak softly and sweetly to all including non-Maḥram men. However, there is no harm in eating any food etc. that she herself comes and places in front of you. If she asks you something, then keep your eyes lowered or closed and give a very brief answer in just one or two words so that she goes away quickly.
Strictly refrain from exchanging questions and answers with her; do not ask her to bring you anything, because if you do, then she will return to give it to you and hence you will have created another situation to talk or look at her. In such situations, when your Nafs teaches you various excuses and tempts you to look at and talk to an unveiled woman then thinking of the following narration is beneficial, ‘Any man who looks at the beauty of a non-Maḥram woman, molten lead will be poured into his eyes on Judgement Day.’
(Ĥidāyaĥ, vol. 2, pp. 368)
Question: Is it a sin for an Islamic sister to travel without a Maḥram man?
Answer: Yes. It is strictly Ḥarām for a woman to travel a distance of three days without her husband or a Maḥram relative. This is