Pan Am introduction to jet service

A Pan Am video from 1958 to show there new 707 jet service.
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[@irishmom58]

This takes me back. I was an 'airline brat' dad was a mechanic for Braniff- we always got moved to first class and it was wonderful! I remember being asked 'smoking or non smoking' when selecting your seat too! I recall the china and crystal and great food and drink. Braniff had little cappucino black and white china cups that they would serve after dinner with a shot of some booze in it that was a thrill for an underage 16 yr old trying pass as a sophisticated grown up! Thanks for the video!

[@BigBoeingBoy]

services back in the day are ten times better than they are now. i wish i lived back in that time period. thumbs up!

[@brandond5209]

My mom was a stewardess for Delta from 1967 till 1988. We flew on buddy passes all over the world. It was great and I remember well they level of service you got back then. I also remember smoking being allowed.

[@SB-nk1od]

In the 90s we had roomy seats that reclined. movie screens. hot meals. So much has changed since even the 90s

[@westindude]

AAAHHH the old 707!!!!....Beautyful!

[@user-eu7rf5lr3b]

The best ever and ever

[@MilliVanilli2007]

Oh I absolutely love this! The uniforms,cabin,how they served the food and took the time to smile (at least in their commercials I guess;)--even the hair of the air hostess:)) LOVE IT! And your mySpace profile is awesome!! Thanks for posting!

[@Vincentvuoto]

What a classic clip! Of course they're flying east. It wouldn't be good marketing to hear, "our cruising speed is 575mph, with a substantial headwind, making our groundspeed, 492mph."

[@worldofai-games1036]

No airline flies that fast anymore. Even with substantial tailwind, jets usually go 580 mph ground speed to save fuel. 600+ is for delayed flights.

[@RazzUK]

I would have loved to fly in this era! :D

[@DynapubsA]

I remember those coach class lounges, where 4 people could it around a table and play cards. (That flight would have been abourt 1975) On my first plane ride in the 1960's I remember how everyone dressed up for it. It really was special.

[@awadalshehri9596]

when Airlines were transporting human being

[@charlietu]

i hate it when cheap people whine about how they dislike air travel and blame the airlines. literally anyone can travel to anywhere in the world for $500 (one way) ... you get what you pay for. want a quality flight experience? get a business class seat.

[@chakradharcholleti6722]

now they're carrying covid

[@SB-nk1od]

@@charlietu Todays airlines should just all call themselves Con Air. cause thats who they treat people

[@stankythecat6735]

I’m concierge key with American Airlines , trust me … it’s glamours. No lines for security and driven directly to the jet across the apron . Spend more = whine less

[@marchicago]

Not like today, where steerage is occupied by 100% pure unadulterated scum.

[@YoBoyMarcus]

The service looks so amazing. Nowadays the flight attendant throws a miniature bag of pretzels in your face and you don't see them for the remainder of the flight. How times have changed...

[@kirgiz1981]

It was wonderful! So romantic!

[@JMMT7022801]

Great video! I once flew on a TWA Lockheed Martin L-1011 from Las Vegas to New York City back in the eighties--it was an excellent airline at the time, with good food, service. God, I wish could've flown Pan Am. I was old enough to remember the Pan Am building and everything. It's too bad America had to fuck up air travel for everyone through deregulation and 9/11/01.

[@anthonysteadman9352]

Dear me. If they could see the toast rack insults we fly in all those years later.

[@motanelustelistu]

The sentance needs a comma between "in" and "all" as there is a pause ...

[@fordlandau]

I love this era so much..thanks for the post!!..Highlights for me are :Stewardess ( i use that term advisedly)lights male passengers cig. and also sits down to chat to passengers. Also shown are a couple playing a serious chess game. In all my 45 years of flying I have NEVER seen anyone playing chess!! Bring back the era of classic travel!!

[@longfade]

I live by Boeing Field in Seattle. There's an AWACS E3 Sentry there (converted 707) which has those old engines on it, I think. I've seen it take off and land several times and it's definitely the loudest thing I've ever heard. It's more of a piercing, incredible shriek than the bigger low-end that other engines produce. It's literally awesome to see that thing come in.

[@celticlofts]

Oh those were the days!

[@thumbun]

"Powder rooms" are excellent for Mile High Club initiations.

[@citylife82]

2min 55 of pure pleasure...!

[@lulubell2222]

alspry I totally agree!! We were a great nation for sure.

[@agent9939]

Those were the days. Flying used to be an event and glamorous. I miss those classy days of aviation.

[@frsfca]

This is just lovely! Can you imagine having this level of service and comfort on a crappy SWA flight?

[@haydezz]

Yeah, well spotted! Gotta love the cheery old school music as well.

[@JeffGR4]

"Golden Age of Flying" was an era the ranged from the 1930's to the 1960's. An era that is greatly missed.

[@towringer]

The reason there were no backpackers is because there were no discount fares back then. People paid full fare coach or First Class. Because the fares were high, that kept out the T-shirt/backpack crowd just like the Concorde rates did. Concorde used to cost $5400 one way, and people who spent that much dressed for the occasion. BTW, those early turbojet airliners are, IMHO, the most beautiful. The later turbofan engines looked lumpy.

[@sgissweet845]

This looks like an informational video I would've watched in my high school history class. With the lights dim, etc. Pan Am looked like a nice airline...

[@justiciaideal46]

Ahh this old times, a 707-121, normally this planes had make a technical stop a Gander, not enough range to go direct transatlantic to London.Nice and so glamour this flights in the 50 and 60s, that was really something special and unforgetable(and also so expensive for the time!!)

[@rodrigovargasrios]

Wow, PANAM was a great simbol in the new aviation history, I am Mexican but I love the PANAM history.

[@Iketurner77]

Irishimp, I'm right there with you. I'm only 32, but started flying when I was young, with my parents, and we always dressed up (my dad was a commercial pilot). I still have my Pan Am First Class Cabin Bag. It's horrific the way some people will get on plane, and even worse the way airlines treat you. Gone are the Pan Am days.

[@max17brazilyahoocomb]

Totally agree...I thought the future would bring us a higher standard of living, but that's not always the case as it's shown by the Pan Am example in here.

[@ThatBearHasMoxie]

Fabulous. The true "jet set".

[@EstherTheEsthetician]

Luv that!!!♥ Amazing Service

[@berlin10099]

Those were the days!

[@mellotrongirl]

Wow! What an ultra-modern way to travel! Hopefully someday soon, I'll become a "jet-setter"!

[@livesteam]

Thanks for the memories. Ex-PanAmer from Brussels

[@ginza0088]

Enjoying taking the plane.. I just can't imagine it..

[@nomiharper]

Wow. Amazing.

[@licentia1963]

I love: "The travail has been taken out of travel." These days, it would seem it's been put back in again!

[@HadaCakraningrat]

I'm so sad when the narrator said "a new concept of flying" in my most honest opinion.... TODAY flying SHOULD BE like this !!! I MISs yoU PANAM !

[@EvatheDiva00]

I love how they still had square windows. What a death-trap!

[@warminator1091]

A "grande dame" of the skies. I flew with them on several occasions as a kid in the 70ties.Basicly on their intercontinental workhorse 707.Once on first class from LHR to JFK.They really served the food like that and we had overhead super8 projectors for the movie. So the ad is quite accurate to the first class at that time. Economy was by far different as once flying from JFK to KIN.

[@MJK1965]

I was 6 years old when I flew Pan Am to France with my aunt and uncle. First Class (Clipper Class they called it.) They were regal, and elegant. :)

[@HunterMann]

Si, es una historia de fascina. La de areolineas Mexicana y Aeromexico tembien son muy interesante, especialment en cuando los grandes de cine del DF y Holiwood viajan en los jets a las playas de Acapulco en cuando este ciudad era parece "El Rio de Janeiro de America del Norte". HM, EEUU y MX

[@prrichgaby]

So true! My hat is off to all airline employees, things have gotten rough in recent times.

[@Parubhi]

The glory days of aviation...too bad they are gone forever.

[@bertskoi]

Those planes were the best! They were still in operation the first time I flew in one of them to Rio in 1969. Ours was made in 1959, ultra clean, ultra roomy (however it was rumored they used short people in the ads. Since I was 6 @ the time, everything was roomy. They've managed to make the seats MUCH smaller over the years and nothing will ever be the same as it was. It was a pleasure to fly then, not anymore.

[@da4127]

Well flying is no longer a pleasure, but a necessity, so people prefer cheap prices to fancy treatment, it's just the way some things go

[@rodrigovargasrios]

Estás en lo correcto, buenas historias qué saber y escuchar.

[@EstherTheEsthetician]

Luv that!!!♥

[@62Elvis]

i flew pan am once (istanbul to jfk 1/1/87) great flight / airline.

[@monorailred1]

@floooky1 It was wonderful! The public is just awful today. My family holds hard to those standards and my kids too. My son actually wears a collared shirt to school vs pajamas and rags and his hair is combed as well. We have dinner parties, attend church and eat together. You can do it too. Hold fast.

[@jenflights]

wow!!...my grand dad told me about this air line and this is like way cool then wat I went for vaca tion...lol rof....that waz smokin...lol.. and food waz on a plates too....

[@smartalek1]

"The travail has been taken out of travel" And no shoe-bombers or underwear-bombers either.

[@nightmuffin937]

The Pan AM Show brought me here.

[@cultureshock72]

It looks exactly like the TV show!!

[@CanadianFan]

that girl just sat down to eat that lobster meal and their decending

[@519forestmonk9]

I wish I could have lived during these times. Born 1969, I missed out. I worked for United over 20 years ago and even then air travel was better than today. Whatever happened to advancement? And why have we not advanced culturally??

[@SPTSuperSprinter156]

And look at that, a man being able to have a smoke without nanny states or daft regulations stopping him.

[@EvatheDiva00]

Because the corners used to always blow out. thats why air-plane windows are round-ish now. Saves lives :D

[@m4rs12]

LOL...food,food, and MORE food!!

[@spritelybird]

I flew around the world when I was 13 in 1983 and it was better than now. We ate real dinners and there was leg room. Not like the turbulent weather we've had in the last few years in sardine condition with not even peanuts because some 1 in a million allergy person might get an attack of the sneezies.

[@monorailred1]

@floooky1 Now you've go me going... we flew Pan Am in 1967 overseas. It was wonderful, we had hot meals, china, menus that were so nice that we framed them! This in coach! Little bottles of lotion and mouthwash in the rest rooms, silverware. Everyone dressed and had manners. I am a housewife and love it! Used to do the modern working woman thing and was so worn out, I would much rather stay home and cook from scratch and be a mom to my kids and a homemaker! Take care!

[@IlPiccoloNerd]

those were times when being a flight attendant was REALLY worth it.. :)

[@KeroChuK]

This is one damn classic plane! Although the plane is giving out black smoke, it is a big breakthrough of Boeing shit! I love that!

[@lasuvidaboy]

Another reason the cabin crew was friendlier was there were far fewer passengers onboard-not to mention a better class of passenger that travels today!

[@jakeianmartinez9902]

lasuvidaboy what do you expect? Only rich people can afford to travel on those times.. Cabin crews are now trained harder and more tougher than they were in the 70s

[@mmagar5754]

Ya, i remember this in the 1980s. Now it's beef or chicken :)

[@Rietto]

Good lord, tablecloths on the pull-down trays! =O

[@freakybuzz]

I agree; modern society has sent such things as elegance, manners and geniality in all public spheres down the proverbial crapper. To think: there was a time when traveling meant putting on your Sunday best. Everyone acted out of Noblesse Obligé; not just for their own sake, but out of respect and courtesy to fellow travelers. Let us not forget, however, the 50's were not all class and grace. They had no shortage of shortcomings as well. I suppose progress has its price...

[@Vohton]

The Golden Age of Flight.

[@coashddjj2]

Hard to believe we ever had this type of flying. The last flight I took on AA seemed like riding a cheap city bus -- no glamour, no food, no nothing. It was only a two-hour flight, but I couldn't wait to get off.

[@jakeianmartinez9902]

coashddjj2 well pay business class of u want this kind if service lol.. Simple..

[@1981OSNY]

1959. The service, food, and general flying experience was second to none... Wish they'd ditch today's overhead bins in favor of overhead racks or nothing at all -- check the damn luggage and get the roomier interiors back. And to top it off, the 2010 passenger it seems is either wearing a ratty printed t-shirt, pajama bottoms, or flip flops. Basically the flying public today looks like a reject list from Barnum & Bailey.

[@lasuvidaboy]

Flying was reserved for the well-off on those days. A round trip ticket from L.A. to New York in 1960 on the new B707 was $1,100.00 or $11,000.00 in today's dollars.

[@pianomanmaestro]

Classic!

[@PonyGirl2000]

Wow, I agree with hotdog... However some things I could do without "here sir, let me light that cigar for you on this plane full of people..." Although I'm old enough that I remember planes having a smoking section.

[@imanerd36]

1955-1970's great era overall, But Pan-Am and TWA added to it.

[@justjack78]

i am a stewardess for united airlines. with our merger with continental, we are now upgrading their passengers left and right. leaving us loyal employees to be stuck in coach, or at the gate! welcome to travel 2011!

[@Rakim8]

This is air travel, they actually dressed to impress...no backpackers, awesome!

[@MerleOberon]

yes, all that is very true, many crashes a year, but if you survived the flight (and many did) it was a memorable experience...

[@m4rs12]

btw, look how BIG that "individual overhead light unit" LOL

[@rodrigovargasrios]

What I love of Mexican Airlines is that they still give you food on board, even in short flights. Roy*

[@NecularRockz]

It's good to know that Singapore Airlines are one of the few which still has the romance of travel in all classes just like Pan Am World Airways. And I mean service and quality not comfort of seats and uniforms.

[@AlSpry]

Also a time when people with a real rebuttal didn't bother focusing on others' punctuation. I'm a quick typist, so sue me. And I'm sure you're absolutely perfect in every way.

[@ratedprogram6947]

When US airlines were actually good

[@floooky1]

Prior to jet service, airplanes flew much lower and were subject to weather, and also used prop engines. Jets fly above the weather at cruising altitude and the engines don't cause cabin vibration, so it was something new.

[@patyo1994]

wow i want those bathrooms instead of the crappy ones now lol haha

[@headley62]

The Sud Aviation Caravelle flown by United had triangle shaped windows.

[@longfade]

And the un-secured overhead bins! That always kills me when I see that.

[@ParkerLiberty]

The majority of Boeing windows were (and still are) quite square, much more so then Airbus ones. The variation of the rounded edges (the part that was causing the DeH. disasters) has however changed. The planes that possess these windows are 707 (the plane featured), 717, 727, 737, 747, some 757, and older 767. The other 757s, 767s, and all 777s have more rounded windows and when the 787 finally comes out, they will look more like the round Airbus ones, only much, much, much bigger

[@bobduvar]

The real jet set way of life.....

[@21boxhead]

powder rooms, smoking lounges, everyone dressed nicely those where the days

[@MerleOberon]

I want to go to the powder room on that 707

[@mcmlxvi]

I guess turbulence was the best kept secret of commercial aviation in those days.

[@hohenry1701e]

Hey! no smoking in cabin. Thank you!!

[@dphotos007]

Funny to see smoking allowed on planes. I don't miss that one bit. Flying changed when low cost airline like Southwest came aboard. The old days of service were changed. No more luxury but you saved a lot of money on your airfare.

[@theknightlynews]

2:07 They had mood lighting back then? I thought that was some new innovation. lol.

[@jimmah55555]

A better age for traveling - when people dressed up for it. Whish i was alive for it

[@xxquiker]

@LateNightCable thats still the experience on a singapore airlines flight

[@LAJSEW]

Did you notice the superb service, though? (That is now only a thing of dreams)...Oh! And the restrooms were FAR better than those of most current jets.

[@lildannye]

I wish flying was like this now days... new, exciting, classy, exclusive... no Ryanair and no poor people stinking out the cabin!

[@Valizan]

@defenderoFreedom What happened was lawsuits when turbulence hit those "motionless" jets, and china, metal cutlery and glass went airborne inside the cabins.

[@psgman41]

If you wanna experience this again, just buy a 1st class ticket for any big airline . you might think it's expensive, but do you know how much it cost to take the plane back in 1958 ? ... (but yeah, I must comfess, the low cost companies have now fully eradicated the glamour of the 60-70's)

[@jakeianmartinez9902]

Martin $68 adjusted for inflation that's $500 one way lol