The Fokker F27 Friendship was a very successful aircraft, manufactured from the mid 1950s to the mid 1980s, and well over 550 were produced. A few were used for military purposes, but most were civil aircraft, and widely used by many airlines around the world. This kit was one of the earlier additions to the Airfix range, appearing in their very first catalogue, and to the best of our knowledge the only fixed-wing aircraft they made with a foot figure (as opposed to just pilot figures). The two pilot figures are the same pose, and shown above, but the third figure is what brings this kit to our attention.
Airfix describe her as a hostess (although these days we would probably use the more generic term 'cabin crew'), and she is supposed to be placed next to the steps also included in the kit, by which the passengers could board the plane. She stands stock still, with arms to the side and holding a slim rectangular object in her left hand, which we might suppose is a passenger manifest. She wears a beret, a smart jacket and skirt, which is quite reasonable for an airline uniform in the 1960s. As can be seen, the sculpting is pretty basic, with very little in the way of detail. Whether this is due to the age of the model, or that it was just a tiny part of a kit, we cannot say, but the pilot figure is equally poor. So we have a hostess doing nothing and a pilot figure who isn't even holding any controls. It's great that Airfix were providing what might be considered as bonus figures, but these fail to impress today.
This very old kit appears in several Airfix catalogues, and in the older ones it is shown as a photograph of the completed model, but this image never includes these figures.