Amanda Stassart

Amanda "Mouchka" Stassart (1923–2013) was a member of the Resistance during World War II and later a president of the Belgian Association of Air Hostesses.

In 1943 she joined the resistance, working as a courier and guide for the Comet Line escape network under the nom de guerre "Diane.

[2] She was interrogated and tortured in the Gestapo headquarters in the Rue des Saussaies, held in Fresnes Prison, and then deported to Ravensbrück concentration camp, where her mother died in February 1945.

[5] Throughout her career at Sabena she was active in pushing for better conditions for female employees, in particular the right to keep their jobs after marriage, not be subject to a "beauty panel" for employment, and for parity of pay with male flight attendants.

[2] Retired from Sabena as a hostess upon her marriage to pilot Marcel Désir in 1969,[6] in 1971 she co-founded Trans European Airways,[2] where she worked as Head Supervisor of Cabin Service.