Sep 29th, 2011 at 1:00PM: The Association of Flight Attendants-CWA wants to point out that a lot has changed since the days of girdle and weight checks.
The world's largest Flight Attendant union, recognized the season premiere of Pan Am as a reminder of the extraordinary accomplishments of Flight Attendants at the forefront of the jet age, but noted that despite the glamorization of these women in the television ...Click on a label to read posts from that part of the world.
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Association of Flight Attendants champions female employees
Sep 29th, 2011 at 1:00PM: The Association of Flight Attendants-CWA wants to point out that a lot has changed since the days of girdle and weight checks.
The world's largest Flight Attendant union, recognized the season premiere of Pan Am as a reminder of the extraordinary accomplishments of Flight Attendants at the forefront of the jet age, but noted that despite the glamorization of these women in the television ...Pan Am: The first episode recap
Sep 25th, 2011 at 1:00PM: From Mad Men to The Playboy Club and everywhere in-between, the 60s are hot, hot hot on the small screen this season. Last week, we caught a sneak preview of ABC's latest, Pan Am, at the DC-area Renaissance Capital View before it takes off on TV this Sunday at 10 PM (EST).
We'll admit to being skeptical - any show featuring overly perky flight attendants just seems suspect - and reviews had ...Galley Gossip: A letter to the producers of Project Runway regarding flight attendant uniforms
Aug 31st, 2011 at 11:00AM:
Dear Project Runway Producers,
Have I got a challenge for you! With the premiere of the new television show Pan Am airing September 25th on ABC, there's been a lot of talk about airlines in the news lately. One can't help but compare stewardesses of yesterday to flight attendants today, and yet the job rarely resembles what it once was so many years ago. Long gone are the days of glamour ...Galley Gossip: Age, weight and height requirements for flight attendants (and why Christina Ricci could never be a Pan Am stewardess)
Jun 7th, 2011 at 9:30AM:
"In this male-dominated world, in that famously openly chauvinistic culture, these women were really taking the reins and running their lives in a way most women didn't," Christina Ricci said in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter about her upcoming television show, Pan Am, a night time soap opera revolving around the lives of flight attendants and pilots in the 1960's. Think Mad Men ...Northwest Airlines memorabilia becomes big with collectors
May 18th, 2011 at 2:00PM: Two years after being absorbed by Delta, Northwest Airlines has become a hot ticket again among airline collectors. Airline museums in Minnesota and Atlanta are seeking artifacts from Northwest and all things NWA-related are selling on eBay, according to the Detroit Free Press.
"It was the airline everyone loved to hate, but you know what? People are starting to miss it," said Bruce Kitt of ...Pan Am returning to the air as "Pan Am - the series"
Mar 1st, 2011 at 12:30PM:
The Pan Am name may have gone down in history with painful memories of the Lockerbie terror attack, but the iconic airline has roots that stretch back to the very early days of commercial aviation.
The airline that was such an important part of history may be making a comeback - in a TV show. ABC has commissioned a pilot for "Pan Am - the series", and its development is being spearheaded by ...Delta set to expand at JFK, tear down Pan Am terminal
Aug 9th, 2010 at 2:00PM: The battle for New York's John F. Kennedy airport continued in earnest this week, as Delta Airlines announced plans to remodel and expand it's currently leased footprint.
With current operations now taking place in both terminal 4 and the former Pan Am Worldport (aka, terminal 3), the airline plans to expand all of their operations to terminal 3 with a full remodel, all set to be complete by ...Northwest to disappear this year
Jan 1st, 2010 at 12:00PM: Remember Eastern? Pan Am? Well, the next one to join the list of airline has-beens will be Northwest.
Northwest Airlines may have made it to the beginning of 2010, but won't see another New Year's Eve. The carrier, which was acquired by Delta in October 2008, has received permission from the FAA to ditch the Northwest name and operate the whole deal as Delta. The cutover process for "legacy ...Pan Am hijacker caught after 41 years
Oct 12th, 2009 at 12:30PM:
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On November 24th 1968, Luis Armando Soltren and two others, hijacked Pan Am flight 281. Using guns and knives, Soltren and his accomplices forced their way into the cockpit and demanded that the plane land in Cuba.
Of course, back in that era, hijackings were a little ...Vintage travel ads show artistry and wanderlust combined
Sep 28th, 2009 at 10:30AM: Head back to the days when travel ads were works of art and the feeling of wanderlust can take over. There's something about a harbor scene rendered in watercolors that evoke the feeling of romance and adventure. That was my first thought when I browsed through the "Destinations" section of the blog Creative Cloud's bounty of vintage travel print ads.
The post includes 45 ads in all that have ...Galley Gossip: Passenger of the month - Christopher Elliott
Jan 29th, 2009 at 1:30PM: Name? Christopher Elliott Where do you live? Orlando, Florida Occupation? I'm a travel journalist. Website? Elliott.org
City you spend the most time in? Orlando Okay, that makes sense. Bad question. So where do you travel to the most often? New York I love New York. Everyone should visit New York at least once in their lifetime, especially during Christmas. Miles flown this year? Just over ...Galley Gossip: Where did the service go?
Dec 30th, 2008 at 10:30AM:
Recently I read an interesting article in the New York Times, Up, Up, and Go Away, about an ex flight attendant who worked for TWA in the 1970's when flight attendants were known as stewardesses and stewardesses were as glamorous as movie stars and passengers were treated like royalty and flying was..well...just better - in every way possible! The stewardess featured in the article above wrote ...Is Pan Am finally dead?
Mar 4th, 2008 at 10:20AM: A once great name will no longer be flying the skies. The airline that bought the Pan Am logo and operated under it for the past ten years has been found unfit to fly by the DOT according to The Boston Globe. The original Pan Am went out of business in 1991 but the name was sold and flown by a new carrier a few years later. The latest venture in the Pan Am name has operated since 1998 out of ...
