Porter Air of Canada is going retro.
Ah yes.. I long for the days when the stewardesses were pretty and friendly, and flying was an enjoyable experience.
I watch and like this show, but I watch it with a bit of melancholy since I’m old enough to remember when Pan-Am was the air travel powerhouse and the stews dressed like that! It does painfully remind us what all we’ve gave up in the name of safety. Flying now is like taking a Grey Line bus or worse.
Good looking women at that time versus sturdy looking ones today ! And some airlines, people are pretty rude like United.
Porter Air of Canada is going retro.
...or Vaseline.
I do quite a bit of flying on USAir, and I'm pretty sure that a large percentage of their flight attendants started their career 50 years ago.
It’s tough to keep the storylines straight when the four main characters all have to dress in the same outfits. I’d fly anywhere with the breathtaking “Laura”, the younger sister who somehow snags the cover shot in Life Magazine.
The one who has had the best part so far is the stewardess who has the French accent who has had some meaty parts to play - first as the mistress who must uncomfortably confront her lover’s wife and son, then having to confront her childhood separated from her family by the Nazis and how she still hates the Germans even 20 years later.
The drawback to the show is that it hasn’t really tied the characters together yet in a way that you really care about them. The plots seem a little contrived and the ladies, while pretty, seem a little too girlish at times to be believable.
I’ll still watch awhile longer, if just to see more views of the gorgeous Laura in 1960s garb that still looks incredibly sexy today even as it seems overdressed by today’s standards.
Make it early 70's Southwest Airlines and maybe I'll glance at it during football commercials.
They had to treat you like royalty. Back in the day, the prices to fly was very high, which is why it rarely involved taking the family. And strapping yourself inside a flying aluminum tube going 550 miles an hour was also a new idea to get use to. The percentage of people that said they would never fly was still very high, my own parents among them. Our vacations always involved jaming 5 kids into a station wagon to see the country by road.
I like Pan AM, but am disappointed The Playboy Club was cancelled.
PS...if you have Starz Movie Channel, don’t miss Kelsey Grammer in “Boss”.
My family flew Pan Am when we lived overseas. My first air line flight was with my Mother on a Pan Am Lockheed Constellation from San Fransisco to Honolulu, Hawaii to meet up with my Father in 1956. After 4 years on Oahu we returned to the U.S. on the passenger ship SS Lurline.
Later when my Father was working in Laos 1963-1972 we regularly flew on Pan Am, on their flight 001 West, San Franscio - Honolulu - Tokyo - Hong Kong - Bangkok. and their 002 flight East which just reversed the order of the cities.
My last flights on Pam Am were in 1990-1991 Miami to Maracaibo, Venezuela for work and their return flights.
It is extremely easy to tolerate abdominal conditions if you have never known better.
Of the international airlines I flew on between 1962 and 1982 I would only book flights on the surviving foreign flagged companies. Sorry, but on them I feel as if I am a human not a piece of cargo.
The glamor of flying is long gone and now flying is little different than taking a bus trip in some third world country except perhaps for the absence of live chickens.
I like it, but really, it’s just a weaker version of Mad Men.
Or I should say it’s a weaker spin-off of Mad Men. MM is a very different story.
Beautiful women and beautiful planes. Great show. Great CGI. Much better cgi compared to the movie Pearl Harbor. The 707’s and the dc-6 or 7 (Bay of Pigs episode) looked so real.
Passengers weren’t trying to blow up their planes back then either.