I was hired a bit behind these ladies, but I remember working with some of them. What these ladies are saying are all true. Also, the "steward/esses" were all classy and well educated. Our pilots were the best of the best in aviation. We were treated very well all over the world and our company ID seemed to carry more "weight" than the passport sometimes. Forever thankful for those years.
I love hearing the first-hand accounts of the stewardesses. Many contemporary depictions make it seem like these women were unhappy and taken advantage of. Love to hear how special a time it was for these women. Memories that will never be forgotten.
I missed the show they made based on this. I wish they had another season cause we were left with a cliffhanger. But it was a cool show about what pan am was and I love margo Robbie and Christina ricci. I really enjoyed hearing the real pan am stewaresses talk about their adventures and seeing history thru their eyes. It's incredible ☺️❤️
I flew with Pan Am in the 1973 - London to LA and then on to Sydney. I again experienced their service in 1981 - SYD-LAX non-stop on the B747SP and back to Sydney from Honolulu. As they use to say - "you call it the world, we call it home".
I flew pan am 747 from jfk to Frankfurt in 1984 and from Istanbul to Geneva then to Zurich on a b727. Then flew from Zurich to jfk on a b747 in 1986. It was great me and my wife we treated so well. Thank you pan am.
In 1972 i was a 17 year private with orders to Germany. Shortly after take off a stewardess approched and said the captian wants to see you. Somewhat suprised and wondering why The Captian wanted to see me I nervously followed her forward. Soon she stopped and pointed to a stairway and said you go relax up there, I’ll come get you before we land. I never forgot the kindness of that woman and her show of support for a soon to be homesick young man. Years later I watched in amazement when Pan Am committed to empty the orphanges of South Vietnam. Military aircraft were legit targets in those bitter years and Pan Am leadership decided they would get the children. Watching footage of those crew memebers is peak Pan Am and I am sure the stewerdess who was so kind to me was front and center during that foul evacuation. They did their duty and then some. Thank you.
Thank you for sharing. I am a former Purser Flight Attendant from United Airlines. And yes, traveling has continued to educate me in different cultures and people.
Great stories. I had a cousin who was a stewardess in the 1960's - early 70's. She always had an air of sophistication and sweetness. One time she drove to our Boston home in her new all white (interior & exterior) VW Bug. She had a beautiful home in New Jersey.
This is so important. I’ve seen how ugly people can get when they treat people as servants and treat them horribly. I work at a restaurant and I’ll never forget how some lady got upset about her order and shoved hot soup back at one of our employees. The soup must have been over 180° and it got on her hands and burned her. Can’t believe the audacity that people conduct themselves with. It is not okay to physically abuse people in that manner.
I STILL think about this show! I’ll never forget the early days of my iTunes adventures and finding these hidden gems for free to download! I still have them on a hard drive somewhere. Absolutely LOVED this show!!
There’s always another perspective when watching programs about destinations. The romanticised, to the dramatic, there’s never enough to quell the desire to experience.✈️
It was an absolute pleasure to have flown with the best “true professional” Flight Attendants at PanAm in my 34 years of flying 121. Only flew for PAA for 2.5 years ending in 1991. And, going on the another “Major” for the final 24 years, I vividly remember how the PAA FAs epitomized the word “professional” especially in appearance and courtesy. PAA really took care of their people on layovers. Fondly recall many of the great places we stayed. The best of the best. Thank you….it was a pleasure to have shared the sky with these professionals……RC
@@marcelbischof7203 For PAA and EAL only the B727….the others…B737, B757, and B767. (Almost all variants of each) I.e. B767-200/300/400. Only 2 US 121 had the -400.
@@rodcoulter997 wow very interesting, I must say I'm surprised that you didn't operate more types, I say that because now flight attendants often go from the a320 to the 777. I presume you worked for Delta.
I was fortunate to be a flight attendant (stewardess) in the mid 80’s. For a charter airline called Sky Star International. It was a blast! 3-5 day per diems all over the world.. classy uniforms, fun passengers.
I really loved this series, but it was sad that it never went into another season. I'm glad I have the complete series on DVD. I just wished they didn't mix up the first 4 episodes on the 1st disc.
I flew one of the last Pan Am flights, from New York to Paris in First Class. Only Air France (Miami) to Paris has First Class now, and the La Premiere service is stellar, but I will never forget how fabulous that Pan Am flight was! Thank you for bringing back great memories! PS - I was given a large Pan Am flag, and I still have it ❤
BRING back the series!!,...even if Margot now is super expensive and they are all 12 years older...who cares!...that was an absolute magnificent show..:(.....Just finish the first and only season)
I have been a flight attendant since 1985 started my career with Eastern Airlines then Northwest Orient Airlines and now with my current airline and I must say these ladies are so correct and to the T on what they are describing this career has change my life… the BEST education I have ever received ….every day I learn something new however my BEST memory (among many) was the day of the fall of the Berlin Wall I was there that day…right in front of the wall I cried when it came down I still have a piece of the wall with me here at home..another great memory was when I delivered a baby I HAD NO IDEA WHAT I WAS DOING and with the help of the Mayo Clinic I did it I delivered a healthy baby boy…three days later I received a call from the German Mom that she had named the baby boy after me and of course I cried yet again….THE BEST JOB anyone could hope for 🥰🥰🥰🇵🇷🇵🇷🌈🌈
Eastern was a great airline--as was Northwest. The former was taken down by feckless management, the latter by dereg. Both, in their own domain, were pioneering and oozed class. The industry today, despite better technology, is a shadow of what it was. So sad.
What a wonderful airline ! The Golden Age of flying may have been back in the 1960s and 1970s but I think aviation is much more interesting nowadays. But Pan Am will always live in our hearts.
i experienced thru those great pan am days as a kid... you're wrong, flying today is a totally boring experience... certainly not interesting, just pure stress from start to finish...
It was 1970 when I experienced the best economy flight, it was on a Pan Am 707 flight Istanbul to London via Frankfurt. It was on a par with business class today; then game the 747's and inflght standards dropped!
I only flew Pan Am until December 1991. There will never be another like it. The food, seats, aircraft & yes, the most beautiful women in that Light Blue Uniform with the Lill Box Hat ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Born 1961, i remember having a Flight from Zurich to London with my Mother. 1967/68? With Pan American Airways. No Backpacks or Rukksacs. No Jeans or Shorts or Flipflops. Only Men in Suits and Women in Travel Costumes (although i DO remember these Mini skirts...😂). But somehow flying at that time was more exclusive. Everyone was "Dressed up". And Mama, of course, after Takeoff, opened her Beige Crocodile Leather Handbag (she had matching SHOES!), took out her Cigarette case, lit her Cigarette and ordered a Whisky Soda. Everyone did, before being served with a delicious Lunch . . .
I was blessed in many ways growing up, but a favorite memory was flying to the Orient on the wonderful Pan American Airlines in 1965-1968! My Dad was a Country Musician and we went on tour with him. It was exactly as it is shown, a world apart from what flying is now! The experience of flight with Pan Am was different from other airlines. I remember having to dress up to fly. The stewardess would give me tons of goodies to eat, let me be a "jr-stewardess" and help hand out peanuts and snacks to passengers. We got free cards, toys, and our own "official wings" to wear. All the ice cream and cokes we could take. It was always common to hear from friends & family when you arrived " You probably ate on the plane right? How was the flight?". Flying now is nothing but a glorified bus in the US. Other places in the world have better airlines than us for some reason. It was real china, crystal glasses, and silverware, and now "first class" costs more than ever and you get plastic plates and plastic cups and picnic plastic flatware. Such a shame the generation today doesn't get to experience the thrill of flying the way it was in the 1960s and early 70s.
Recalled the scene in "Catch Me If You Can" when kids were running to get a pilot's autograph - someone commented that flying was only for the rich, that flight attendants were like supermodels. It looks like they were not exaggerating. Truth is, most would-be Pan-Am passengers today would fly private planes. If the airline existed, it would be a private charter.
I just started watching "Pan Am" from 2011, I'm in episode 2 so far. I noticed they didn't have a season 2, I guess it got canceled? 😢 looks like it was a good tv series ..
My hearts desire was to be a stewardess. Was mid 70's. Applied but not hired unfortunately. Werent hiring at time but then love happened and game over. Still to this day wish could have been.,I was 18 and now 67. Loved the Pan Am show. They ned to continue it!
Flight attendants today are little different from the cashiers at your local grocery store, albeit trained to handle in flight emergencies. It's shocking to hear they were like models in their day.
As a solo traveling child my parents entrusted me to a Pan Am ‘stewardess’ for flights across the Pacific each summer. They would bring me up to first class, from coach, because that’s where they all hung out. To this day I have a thing for tall classy blondes in blue 😘
What’s sad is that Panama created the air experience and now it’s a disaster, as foreign airline corporations look to creat an experience to attract more customers and American carriers are so big but now like a bus! It’s so sad
Well it's settled seriously!! 🎉 I'm booking my next flight ✈️🛫 on Pan Am🎉🎉🎉🎉. Obviously this is the airline to go with. Cuz I hate flying but I can actually see myself enjoying a Pan Am flight ✈️🛫 instead of despising every second!!! Yuk on travel today in the air... But I definitely, actually, "want" to get on a Pan Am flight ✈️🛫, in fact I may just book a ✈️🛫 on Pan Am for pleasure after watching the series and the documentary (I fell asleep though), anyway 🎉🎉🎉 Kudos to Pan Am!!! An airline that actually works and seems to understand customers and everything else!!! 🎉🎉 I can't wait to fly on my way next flight ✈️🛫 on Pan Am that's the airline I'm definitely going with, maybe I'll meet Cristina Ricci, Lol. I know she's just an actress but I bet the real Pan Am flight attendants are just as awesome 😎 otherwise they wouldn't be played by Hollywood actresses. Lol🎉🎉🎉 Anyway I'm totally going online to book my next flight ✈️🛫 on Pan Am and I can't wait to tell All those shitty airlines to suck it!!! 🎉🎉 If this works out maybe I'll try TWA next I heard they have very high standards as well and let's be honest isn't that what we deserve from our airlines and other customer services???????!!!!!!¡!!¡?¿?¿??¿?!¡!
You can’t fly Pan Am anymore.After the Lockerbie bombing (1988),the Airline was disbanded.The brand was tainted with that terrible tragedy and, sadly, that was the end.
I moved from Australia to the UK in December 1991. When I landed at Heathrow on December 6th I was deeply saddened to learn that Pan Am was finished. As a Travel Agent I'd booked many pax on PA and it was a privilege to fly them. What a sad end to a pioneer that changed air travel forever, in ways the youngsters of today will never fully appreciate.
Both Pan Am and TWA were iconic airlines. We have a great relationship with the TWA Museum in Kansas City and consider them to be a "cousin" museum. In fact, we even dedicated an entire episode of The Pan Am Podcast to TWA. You should take a listen: podcast.thepanammuseum.org/1836491/9661220-episode-13-the-twa-edition-exploring-the-twa-museum-and-twa-hotel
@@PanAmMuseum I'm not the original commenter and before listening to your podcast I had no idea you guys and TWA had a great relationship my grandparents flew for TWA my grandpa as a pilot and my grandma as a hostess (she would always act mad if I accidentally called her a stewardess or a flight attendant) Throughout learning more about TWA I learned more about you as well both TWA and Pan Am had something very special something that has not been seen before or since
Just look how classy the look and appear. Grooming, articulate speech, manners.. Those days some flight attendants would not even take time to comb their hair..
Wrong. They don't even call them "Berliners" in Berlin, they're Pfannkuchen. Not one person in that audience thought of a jelly donut. It's a silly meme thought up by Americans who don't know German. And "Ich bin ein Berliner" was exactly the right phrasing, subtly changing the meaning to "I am one of you" rather than literally "I am from Berlin."
@@james-p I was told this by my german professor who was german btw. A german will say "Ich bin Deutscher" and NOT ich bin ein deutscher. and the difference between pfannkuchen and berliner is more like hamburger vs whopper or zinger........pfannkuchen is a very odd word for an american to say/pronounce..........and how do you know what every single person in the audience was thinking?....are you a psychic mindreader on a massive scale?
@@delifrance5490 Not using the article is textbook German and is the grammatically correct to say you are from Berlin. Adding the article "ein" changes the meaning slightly as German is actually spoken, and was the right thing to say in that context - "I am one of you." He was the President - he had the best interpreters in the world working for him. And I know that nobody there thought he said he was a jelly donut because that story didn't start until the '80s. It would be like saying you called somebody a deli sandwich if you called him a hero - nobody would think that. And yes, Pfannkuchen is hard to pronounce! That means pancakes pretty much everywhere else in Germany, but refers to the "jelly donut" in Berlin (ironically enough). The "I am a jelly donut" story just isn't true at all.
Different generation of today's Greyhound bus travelers. I'm sure flight attendants of today will have similar stories 25 or 30 years from now. Yeah, right!
Enough rose-colored glasses. PanAm was an anti-trust cabal run by executives so lacking in leadership talent and vision that they went out of business. Over just under a decade, they crashed eleven 707’s in the Pacific, almost losing their air carrier certificate. You read that right, eleven. You may pine about the good old days all you want, but very few people could afford those tickets and the large network carriers today, are far, far more reliable, safe, inexpensive and capable of getting you damn near anywhere in the world. Do we really want to go back to the days of second hand smoke throat cancer and taxpayer subsidized airline services? The legacy carriers today actually make money for their shareholders and have a near perfect level of safety. Nobody is stopping any of us from getting dressed up before a flight. Quit complaining about it and put on a tie and jacket or a dress. “Be the change” and all that.
Aside from your error regarding the 707 incidents (yes I read that right, and you are wrong)... But Yes, compared to the utter shitstorm that is flying today, I'd happily go back to a bit of second-hand smoke and more respectable passengers. I've flown both before and after deregulation. Enough shit-coloured glasses. Flying was better before deregulation in nearly every way. I do nevertheless appreciate the lack of skyjackings today compared to then, even if TSA is a pain in the arse.
So I went back and reviewed. Sure enough, it's only ten 707 hull losses. The 1959 accident aircraft was returned to service. (PAA115) So ten complete hull losses. Hundreds of dead passengers and the FAA coming very close to revoking their air carrier certificate. So you're technically correct, I was "wrong" (Off by one.) But you're so arrogantly sure of your ignorance, that you reflexively tell me I'm wrong, even going so far to incorrectly refer to these horrible accidents as incidents. You then double down on the stupidity and claim that well-behaved passengers were somehow more important than people's lives? Unlike you, I know the technical differences between what what was done back then and what was done now. We may not have food from Maxim's and size zero hostesses, but we don't kill you. And we actually make money for the shareholders. It's a much better experience now. If you actually know what you're looking at.
This video is a total disappointment. Instead of hearing what the stewardesses are saying, their voices are covered over with some garbage music. You should have entitled this video "The Silent Stewardesses of Pan Am" ! It's not fair to the stewardesses to invite to participate in a video and then black out they are saying.
I am watching this show right now, still in the begining, and I already love it. 💙🤍💙 I think that for some of us ladies with a nostalgia for former times when flying was glamorous, classy, exciting, and a true adventure, this show hits the heart. When I was younger, I wanted to be a flight attendant, but back then, in my country, you had to be a certain height, and I was just barely too short. I had all the other qualifications: nice legs, figure, pretty, friendly, and spoke several languages. My life would have been totally different had I been able to work as a stewardess. But even if I could have done it, Pan Am was gone.... Pan Am is legendary, and to me, synonymous with a much better time and a better world. Loved this little documentary. 💙🤍💙
Clueless stewardess 😍: Ich bin ein Berliner means “I am a doughnut,” in German. A Berliner is a German jam doughnut. When Kennedy found that out, he felt like a fool.
I am just watching Pan Am in 2023 and I love the series and more so the characters. I wish there had been more than one season.
Me too! And they ended it when so much going on! Wish could see more!
Every Country has an airline...the World has Pan Am !❤
My Swedish mother was a PanAm stewardess from 1963-1967.
I was hired a bit behind these ladies, but I remember working with some of them. What these ladies are saying are all true. Also, the "steward/esses" were all classy and well educated. Our pilots were the best of the best in aviation. We were treated very well all over the world and our company ID seemed to carry more "weight" than the passport sometimes. Forever thankful for those years.
I recently watched this show and really loved it, I wish it wasn’t cancelled
I love hearing the first-hand accounts of the stewardesses. Many contemporary depictions make it seem like these women were unhappy and taken advantage of. Love to hear how special a time it was for these women. Memories that will never be forgotten.
Now would be the perfect time to bring the second series, with mid century modern being so popular right now.
I missed the show they made based on this. I wish they had another season cause we were left with a cliffhanger. But it was a cool show about what pan am was and I love margo Robbie and Christina ricci. I really enjoyed hearing the real pan am stewaresses talk about their adventures and seeing history thru their eyes. It's incredible ☺️❤️
I flew with Pan Am in the 1973 - London to LA and then on to Sydney. I again experienced their service in 1981 - SYD-LAX non-stop on the B747SP and back to Sydney from Honolulu. As they use to say - "you call it the world, we call it home".
Pan Am was the best!
Pan Am has always had a special place in my heart as a beautiful and considerate sentiment
My first flight to USA was on a panam 747. Loved it.
I flew pan am 747 from jfk to Frankfurt in 1984 and from Istanbul to Geneva then to Zurich on a b727. Then flew from Zurich to jfk on a b747 in 1986. It was great me and my wife we treated so well. Thank you pan am.
Fantastic feeling as watching this
In 1972 i was a 17 year private with orders to Germany. Shortly after take off a stewardess approched and said the captian wants to see you. Somewhat suprised and wondering why The Captian wanted to see me I nervously followed her forward. Soon she stopped and pointed to a stairway and said you go relax up there, I’ll come get you before we land. I never forgot the kindness of that woman and her show of support for a soon to be homesick young man. Years later I watched in amazement when Pan Am committed to empty the orphanges of South Vietnam. Military aircraft were legit targets in those bitter years and Pan Am leadership decided they would get the children. Watching footage of those crew memebers is peak Pan Am and I am sure the stewerdess who was so kind to me was front and center during that foul evacuation. They did their duty and then some. Thank you.
Wow, that's dope. Kudos, mate.
Thank you for sharing. I am a former Purser Flight Attendant from United Airlines. And yes, traveling has continued to educate me in different cultures and people.
Great stories. I had a cousin who was a stewardess in the 1960's - early 70's. She always had an air of sophistication and sweetness. One time she drove to our Boston home in her new all white (interior & exterior) VW Bug. She had a beautiful home in New Jersey.
"PASSENGERS RESPECTED US"
"WE WERE NEVER TREATED WITH SERVITUDE"
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They were elite people, not frustrated wannabes with distorted egos (both sides).
This is so important. I’ve seen how ugly people can get when they treat people as servants and treat them horribly.
I work at a restaurant and I’ll never forget how some lady got upset about her order and shoved hot soup back at one of our employees. The soup must have been over 180° and it got on her hands and burned her.
Can’t believe the audacity that people conduct themselves with. It is not okay to physically abuse people in that manner.
I STILL think about this show! I’ll never forget the early days of my iTunes adventures and finding these hidden gems for free to download! I still have them on a hard drive somewhere. Absolutely LOVED this show!!
There’s always another perspective when watching programs about destinations. The romanticised, to the dramatic, there’s never enough to quell the desire to experience.✈️
It was an absolute pleasure to have flown with the best “true professional” Flight Attendants at PanAm in my 34 years of flying 121. Only flew for PAA for 2.5 years ending in 1991. And, going on the another “Major” for the final 24 years, I vividly remember how the PAA FAs epitomized the word “professional” especially in appearance and courtesy. PAA really took care of their people on layovers. Fondly recall many of the great places we stayed. The best of the best.
Thank you….it was a pleasure to have shared the sky with these professionals……RC
what types have you operated over the years?
@@marcelbischof7203 For PAA and EAL only the B727….the others…B737, B757, and B767. (Almost all variants of each)
I.e. B767-200/300/400. Only 2 US 121 had the -400.
@@rodcoulter997 wow very interesting, I must say I'm surprised that you didn't operate more types, I say that because now flight attendants often go from the a320 to the 777. I presume you worked for Delta.
@@marcelbischof7203 yes they do….I was a pilot…the PAA group was just wonderful to work with on every level.
@@rodcoulter997 I can imagine, thanks for sharing 👍😊
Those were the days. I wish more stewardesses and pilots would tell their stories.
I was fortunate to be a flight attendant (stewardess) in the mid 80’s. For a charter airline called Sky Star International. It was a blast! 3-5 day per diems all over the world.. classy uniforms, fun passengers.
nice show
its so sad they only aired 10 episode only
I flaw once from Mexico city to New York. It was nice experience. I remember the “Pan Am Building” in Manhattan. NY. ❤❤❤
I really loved this series, but it was sad that it never went into another season. I'm glad I have the complete series on DVD. I just wished they didn't mix up the first 4 episodes on the 1st disc.
Ahh. Miss this series.
What a wonderful career! I would have loved it!
@2:47 min. OMG, look at that cutie car!
I flew one of the last Pan Am flights, from New York to Paris in First Class. Only Air France (Miami) to Paris has First Class now, and the La Premiere service is stellar, but I will never forget how fabulous that Pan Am flight was! Thank you for bringing back great memories! PS - I was given a large Pan Am flag, and I still have it ❤
BRING back the series!!,...even if Margot now is super expensive and they are all 12 years older...who cares!...that was an absolute magnificent show..:(.....Just finish the first and only season)
I have been a flight attendant since 1985 started my career with Eastern Airlines then Northwest Orient Airlines and now with my current airline and I must say these ladies are so correct and to the T on what they are describing this career has change my life… the BEST education I have ever received ….every day I learn something new however my BEST memory (among many) was the day of the fall of the Berlin Wall I was there that day…right in front of the wall I cried when it came down I still have a piece of the wall with me here at home..another great memory was when I delivered a baby I HAD NO IDEA WHAT I WAS DOING and with the help of the Mayo Clinic I did it I delivered a healthy baby boy…three days later I received a call from the German Mom that she had named the baby boy after me and of course I cried yet again….THE BEST JOB anyone could hope for 🥰🥰🥰🇵🇷🇵🇷🌈🌈
Eastern was a great airline--as was Northwest. The former was taken down by feckless management, the latter by dereg. Both, in their own domain, were pioneering and oozed class. The industry today, despite better technology, is a shadow of what it was. So sad.
Please do more!!!!
Really beautiful >>>> Thanks .
What a wonderful airline ! The Golden Age of flying may have been back in the 1960s and 1970s but I think aviation is much more interesting nowadays. But Pan Am will always live in our hearts.
i experienced thru those great pan am days as a kid... you're wrong, flying today is a totally boring experience... certainly not interesting, just pure stress from start to finish...
@@23merlino Exactly!
It was 1970 when I experienced the best economy flight, it was on a Pan Am 707 flight Istanbul to London via Frankfurt. It was on a par with business class today; then game the 747's and inflght standards dropped!
Flew Pan Am back in 1969 Heathrow to JFK I was 22 years old.
United had some very nice air hostesses, too. I know one from the early Seventies...who's still Working!
I only flew Pan Am until December 1991. There will never be another like it. The food, seats, aircraft & yes, the most beautiful women in that Light Blue Uniform with the Lill Box Hat ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Loved those days I’d classy flying!!
Pan Am was a great programme.Was very disappointed after they canned it after one series.The stewardesses were lovely, especially Collette❤️✈️🌐
I've only flown Pan Am once, to France. Pan Am was great. The French passengers, not so much.
Back when flying was epic and glamorous/ not like today
My aunty was one of them in her youth.
My aunt was a flight attendant for United back in the 60d
Born 1961, i remember having a Flight from Zurich to London with my Mother.
1967/68?
With Pan American Airways.
No Backpacks or Rukksacs. No Jeans or Shorts or Flipflops.
Only Men in Suits and Women in Travel Costumes (although i DO remember these Mini skirts...😂).
But somehow flying at that time was more exclusive. Everyone was "Dressed up".
And Mama, of course, after Takeoff, opened her Beige Crocodile Leather Handbag (she had matching SHOES!), took out her Cigarette case, lit her Cigarette and ordered a Whisky Soda.
Everyone did, before being served with a delicious Lunch . . .
I was blessed in many ways growing up, but a favorite memory was flying to the Orient on the wonderful Pan American Airlines in 1965-1968! My Dad was a Country Musician and we went on tour with him. It was exactly as it is shown, a world apart from what flying is now! The experience of flight with Pan Am was different from other airlines. I remember having to dress up to fly. The stewardess would give me tons of goodies to eat, let me be a "jr-stewardess" and help hand out peanuts and snacks to passengers. We got free cards, toys, and our own "official wings" to wear. All the ice cream and cokes we could take. It was always common to hear from friends & family when you arrived " You probably ate on the plane right? How was the flight?". Flying now is nothing but a glorified bus in the US. Other places in the world have better airlines than us for some reason. It was real china, crystal glasses, and silverware, and now "first class" costs more than ever and you get plastic plates and plastic cups and picnic plastic flatware. Such a shame the generation today doesn't get to experience the thrill of flying the way it was in the 1960s and early 70s.
Damn, the one woman who met all those important, influential people of the 20th century - whether good or bad - what a life experience.
“ …, and then we had the cockpit in the front.”
No kidding!! You mean, even back in those days, the cockpit of an airliner was in the front? WOW!!
Recalled the scene in "Catch Me If You Can" when kids were running to get a pilot's autograph - someone commented that flying was only for the rich, that flight attendants were like supermodels. It looks like they were not exaggerating.
Truth is, most would-be Pan-Am passengers today would fly private planes. If the airline existed, it would be a private charter.
I just started watching "Pan Am" from 2011, I'm in episode 2 so far. I noticed they didn't have a season 2, I guess it got canceled? 😢 looks like it was a good tv series ..
Flying today is indeed, HELL.
My hearts desire was to be a stewardess. Was mid 70's. Applied but not hired unfortunately. Werent hiring at time but then love happened and game over. Still to this day wish could have been.,I was 18 and now 67. Loved the Pan Am show. They ned to continue it!
Dec 4 , 1991: ( CEO of Pan Am at last board meeting )
We can't go out of business now. In 2001 we have to
fly a Pan Am Clipper to outer space.
Flight attendants today are little different from the cashiers at your local grocery store, albeit trained to handle in flight emergencies. It's shocking to hear they were like models in their day.
When looked professional in uniforms like old day nurses …. Miss them days
Tony I love you
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nowaday lots of ordinary people also get the chance to feel like a citizen of the world... because of relatively affordable travel cost...
Marshall Tito and his wife. Thank you.
This is making me hungry
As a solo traveling child my parents entrusted me to a Pan Am ‘stewardess’ for flights across the Pacific each summer. They would bring me up to first class, from coach, because that’s where they all hung out. To this day I have a thing for tall classy blondes in blue 😘
What’s sad is that Panama created the air experience and now it’s a disaster, as foreign airline corporations look to creat an experience to attract more customers and American carriers are so big but now like a bus! It’s so sad
Well it's settled seriously!! 🎉
I'm booking my next flight ✈️🛫 on Pan Am🎉🎉🎉🎉.
Obviously this is the airline to go with. Cuz I hate flying but I can actually see myself enjoying a Pan Am flight ✈️🛫 instead of despising every second!!! Yuk on travel today in the air... But I definitely, actually, "want" to get on a Pan Am flight ✈️🛫, in fact I may just book a ✈️🛫 on Pan Am for pleasure after watching the series and the documentary (I fell asleep though), anyway 🎉🎉🎉 Kudos to Pan Am!!!
An airline that actually works and seems to understand customers and everything else!!! 🎉🎉 I can't wait to fly on my way next flight ✈️🛫 on Pan Am that's the airline I'm definitely going with, maybe I'll meet Cristina Ricci, Lol. I know she's just an actress but I bet the real Pan Am flight attendants are just as awesome 😎 otherwise they wouldn't be played by Hollywood actresses. Lol🎉🎉🎉
Anyway I'm totally going online to book my next flight ✈️🛫 on Pan Am and I can't wait to tell All those shitty airlines to suck it!!! 🎉🎉
If this works out maybe I'll try TWA next I heard they have very high standards as well and let's be honest isn't that what we deserve from our airlines and other customer services???????!!!!!!¡!!¡?¿?¿??¿?!¡!
You can’t fly Pan Am anymore.After the Lockerbie bombing (1988),the Airline was disbanded.The brand was tainted with that terrible tragedy and, sadly, that was the end.
I moved from Australia to the UK in December 1991. When I landed at Heathrow on December 6th I was deeply saddened to learn that Pan Am was finished. As a Travel Agent I'd booked many pax on PA and it was a privilege to fly them. What a sad end to a pioneer that changed air travel forever, in ways the youngsters of today will never fully appreciate.
Network TV was not the right platform for this series.
how much would a ticket cost back then? say London to NYC?
Emirates is like Pan Am
They should instead have made, "TWA"!
Both Pan Am and TWA were iconic airlines. We have a great relationship with the TWA Museum in Kansas City and consider them to be a "cousin" museum.
In fact, we even dedicated an entire episode of The Pan Am Podcast to TWA.
You should take a listen:
podcast.thepanammuseum.org/1836491/9661220-episode-13-the-twa-edition-exploring-the-twa-museum-and-twa-hotel
@@PanAmMuseum I'm not the original commenter and before listening to your podcast I had no idea you guys and TWA had a great relationship my grandparents flew for TWA my grandpa as a pilot and my grandma as a hostess (she would always act mad if I accidentally called her a stewardess or a flight attendant) Throughout learning more about TWA I learned more about you as well both TWA and Pan Am had something very special something that has not been seen before or since
Oh yes aviation has changed - did it for 28 years
"PASSENGERS RESPECTED US""WE WERE NEVER TREATED WITH SERVITUDE" .... "PASSENGERS RESPECTED US""WE WERE NEVER TREATED WITH SERVITUDE" ....
Just look how classy the look and appear. Grooming, articulate speech, manners.. Those days some flight attendants would not even take time to comb their hair..
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Bring back the standards Pan AM had for their Stewardesses!
the betty crockers of the air 😂😂😂
ich bin ein berliner = im a berliner doughnut
the right way is "ich bin berliner"
Wrong. They don't even call them "Berliners" in Berlin, they're Pfannkuchen. Not one person in that audience thought of a jelly donut. It's a silly meme thought up by Americans who don't know German. And "Ich bin ein Berliner" was exactly the right phrasing, subtly changing the meaning to "I am one of you" rather than literally "I am from Berlin."
@@james-p I was told this by my german professor who was german btw. A german will say "Ich bin Deutscher" and NOT ich bin ein deutscher. and the difference between pfannkuchen and berliner is more like hamburger vs whopper or zinger........pfannkuchen is a very odd word for an american to say/pronounce..........and how do you know what every single person in the audience was thinking?....are you a psychic mindreader on a massive scale?
@@delifrance5490 Not using the article is textbook German and is the grammatically correct to say you are from Berlin. Adding the article "ein" changes the meaning slightly as German is actually spoken, and was the right thing to say in that context - "I am one of you." He was the President - he had the best interpreters in the world working for him. And I know that nobody there thought he said he was a jelly donut because that story didn't start until the '80s. It would be like saying you called somebody a deli sandwich if you called him a hero - nobody would think that. And yes, Pfannkuchen is hard to pronounce! That means pancakes pretty much everywhere else in Germany, but refers to the "jelly donut" in Berlin (ironically enough). The "I am a jelly donut" story just isn't true at all.
Different generation of today's Greyhound bus travelers. I'm sure flight attendants of today will have similar stories 25 or 30 years from now. Yeah, right!
The flight deck crew books to juvenile.
Is it true that the Stewardesses of Pan Am were required
to wear girdles?
0:30
was it a better time? if flying is reserved for the elite.
we still have that. it's called first class.
Enough rose-colored glasses. PanAm was an anti-trust cabal run by executives so lacking in leadership talent and vision that they went out of business. Over just under a decade, they crashed eleven 707’s in the Pacific, almost losing their air carrier certificate. You read that right, eleven. You may pine about the good old days all you want, but very few people could afford those tickets and the large network carriers today, are far, far more reliable, safe, inexpensive and capable of getting you damn near anywhere in the world. Do we really want to go back to the days of second hand smoke throat cancer and taxpayer subsidized airline services?
The legacy carriers today actually make money for their shareholders and have a near perfect level of safety.
Nobody is stopping any of us from getting dressed up before a flight. Quit complaining about it and put on a tie and jacket or a dress. “Be the change” and all that.
Aside from your error regarding the 707 incidents (yes I read that right, and you are wrong)... But Yes, compared to the utter shitstorm that is flying today, I'd happily go back to a bit of second-hand smoke and more respectable passengers. I've flown both before and after deregulation. Enough shit-coloured glasses. Flying was better before deregulation in nearly every way. I do nevertheless appreciate the lack of skyjackings today compared to then, even if TSA is a pain in the arse.
So I went back and reviewed. Sure enough, it's only ten 707 hull losses. The 1959 accident aircraft was returned to service. (PAA115)
So ten complete hull losses. Hundreds of dead passengers and the FAA coming very close to revoking their air carrier certificate.
So you're technically correct, I was "wrong" (Off by one.) But you're so arrogantly sure of your ignorance, that you reflexively tell me I'm wrong, even going so far to incorrectly refer to these horrible accidents as incidents.
You then double down on the stupidity and claim that well-behaved passengers were somehow more important than people's lives? Unlike you, I know the technical differences between what what was done back then and what was done now.
We may not have food from Maxim's and size zero hostesses, but we don't kill you. And we actually make money for the shareholders.
It's a much better experience now. If you actually know what you're looking at.
You did not mention that the real steward's were male. Just like the trains. Then with the war, females replaced them.
Wow,very interesting.
Correct. The original stewards and the pioneers of this career were indeed all male.
Among the travel industry PAN AM stood for Positively A Nightmare Anything Materializes.
13 minutes of braggadocios.
no wonder pan am went bankrupt!
My god. Old two tooth ewes now.
This video is a total disappointment. Instead of hearing what the stewardesses are saying, their voices are covered over with some garbage music. You should have entitled this video "The Silent Stewardesses of Pan Am" ! It's not fair to the stewardesses to invite to participate in a video and then black out they are saying.
I am watching this show right now, still in the begining, and I already love it. 💙🤍💙 I think that for some of us ladies with a nostalgia for former times when flying was glamorous, classy, exciting, and a true adventure, this show hits the heart. When I was younger, I wanted to be a flight attendant, but back then, in my country, you had to be a certain height, and I was just barely too short. I had all the other qualifications: nice legs, figure, pretty, friendly, and spoke several languages. My life would have been totally different had I been able to work as a stewardess. But even if I could have done it, Pan Am was gone.... Pan Am is legendary, and to me, synonymous with a much better time and a better world. Loved this little documentary. 💙🤍💙
Clueless stewardess 😍: Ich bin ein Berliner means “I am a doughnut,” in German. A Berliner is a German jam doughnut. When Kennedy found that out, he felt like a fool.