Pan Am Film: Boeing 747, Pan Am Flight 454 from MIA to JFK (circa 1987)

[@kenfrank2730]

This video brings back great memories. In 1987 I began working for Pan Am as an avionics technician at LAX. I mostly worked on 747s and A310 aircraft. The employees of Pan Am were hard working and dedicated to their jobs. I sure miss them. Thanks for sharing this video. Donation made.

[@UTEebNeeuq2]

Wow, brought back so many memories. As a Flight Attendant on Pan Am during that exact time period it all felt so glamorous! I will never cease to be amazed at how that GIANT thing launches into the sky with hundreds of people in it.

[@searchforthestrangler5034]

Like the comment especially coming from your experiences of being on flights like this. It's seemingly amazing how a GIANT climbs off the ground and into the skies like that.

[@atomsmash100]

MIA to JFK on a 747. Once upon a time, wide-bodies on routes all over the U.S. was the norm. Those were the days.

[@realjohnboxall]

6:47 that's a prime aviation photo of the great 1980s

[@arnenelson4495]

Those Pan Am days were the best. 747 service was amazing.

[@charlierigacml6533]

What a fond memory of flying on Pan Am's 747s, excellent service. I remember that the Pan Am flight at 1:45 from Miami to JFK was always full, even when using a 747, since that flight connected to all or almost all flights to Europe. I will never forget you, Pan Am.

[@locoHAWAIIANkane]

@1:10 - “We ask that you watch and listen carefully….” Looking out the window, sleeping, reading a book…..good to see things haven’t changed. 🤣🤣🤣👏🏽👏🏽

[@joelfeuer619]

look at the concorde at 6:51

[@mdleweight]

Anyone else notice the plane morphed between at least two different 747 variants?

[@RONASWISS]

Yes, 100 and 200

[@peterfinn6098]

Yes and also a cabin trainer and flight simulator used, not the real thing lol

[@Andrew-sv6zq]

I miss Pan Am.

[@robshef718]

And TWA! Flight 800: Never Forget.

[@manojsubramanian8907]

Woow, very nice to see it again.

[@Ech7777]

Anyone notice the Concorde taxiing near the end?

[@EternalFootman-kr6yx]

mosquito

[@arnenelson4495]

Oh yes.

[@searchforthestrangler5034]

One year later and the horror over Lockerbie, Scotland for Pan Am flight 103

[@Cl4rendon]

Was that Patrick Duffy in the control tower?

[@edcola6671]

Using a 747 for domestic operations is NUTS! Really goes to show how wonderfully inefficient PAA was during its final years in operation.

[@papatakakiro]

They were full. The airplane s come in from South America. Better to use them that sit around til night.

[@papatakakiro]

More efficient than using three 727s.

[@der.Schtefan]

I love the fake hugs, of the fake actors, having fake smiles, in fake clothes, at the end.

[@desertmodern7638]

Gorgeous airplane, 1980s big hair and slim bodies. How times have changed.

[@nealwhaley63]

A movie on a flight only two and a half hours long?

[@LeeMulcahyForSenate]

And PanAm also would serve a multi-course meal to boot. For example, Pan Am served a 5 course meal in First Class between DFW and JFK on their 727's. What an airline.

[@robshef718]

Its not like just getting in the car and turning the key and going.

[@dv_vid]

This is everything 1987 reminds me of my aunt Hazel the travel agent, smoking is so 1987 I think I need a cigarette. A tula like Chezol, Chezol. Potigorette cigorette. Hazel RIP the world's best travel agent. Peter Stuyvesant cig.

[@ansett7272]

Same here 1970's our travel agent, a french gentleman, with a large TAT Touraine Air Transport VD insignia ash tray on his desk smoking mini cigars booking flights for us no computer just a phone call and then hand wrote carbon IATA flight tickets and simple cash payment with a mini cigar in his mouth smoking away. It great! Office filled cigar smoke. Our Travel Agent 50 years ago! They were the days! Pan Am 747 and old school flying now gone.

[@Ben-xe8ps]

@@ansett7272 In 1981 started work in a small private travel agency in the UK specialising in business travel and providing service to various companies, the sort of place where issuing long haul First Class tickets was nothing unusual and even got to issue the occasional Concorde ticket. We had no computers, used the ABC World Airways Guide (for Americans this is what non-Americans used instead of the OAG) to look up schedules, telephoned the airline to make the reservation, calculated the fare using the Air Tariff or the APT, hand wrote the ticket and got the typist to type out an itinerary for the passenger. This was before 'neutral' IATA BSP tickets which could be 'plated' to different airlines existed in the UK so we had to hold the ticket stock of several different airlines in the safe and report our monthly sales individually to each airline whose ticket stock we held. We also had to be fully trained in IATA fare construction for even the most complex of itineraries using nothing but a tariff manual and a calculator. Most of us smoked and we all had ashtrays on our desks.

[@arkvadik8578]

I want gray haired pilots...

[@johnburns6422]

Takes me back to when air travel was a pleasure Not anymore pushing / shoving / no leg room seats made of hard plastic passengers with Zero respect Staff and other passengers , who is to blame ? Low cost carriers and some of today,s society , No i,m Not in the ONE Percent .

[@jrk9679]

Flight crew were older men, long dead now I’m sure. The flight engineer looked to be at least in his mid 60’s. Not sure what FAA regs we’re back then for FE age. I can just imagine those guys probably all started their aviation careers in the mid 1950’s and were all getting close to retirement when this video was made. The things they saw and experienced over their careers. Probably all former military too. Respect to these MEN.

[@中村晃-z3p]

P Nam懐かしいですね。