Wow, he must be retired by now. If not, he has 55 years and would have to be double digit seniority assuming Delta hired him in ‘91. He seems like a fun guy. I’ve got 25 years with Delta and this was 3 years before I started.

The best guy ever🥰

@@rexdby2984 I fly Delta and if he's still working it would be an honor to have him on a flight!

Prachya Boonkwan have you met him?

Ok…40 😏

i wonder if he is still flying 31 years later

He’s great ! I’m going to see him on Saturday !

Now headphones are free or come with the ticket price.

Ingrid DeWitt IT was a privilege to have known you Ingrid

I am ex Pan Am,ex TWA and recently retired from American Airlines. Flying for Pan Am was like getting ready to go to a party. So much fun, I felt guilty taking a pay check. Those were the days!

@@josephflannery7795 thank you, what a nice thing to say.

Tammy F where do you fly now?

So true Tammy🥂✈️

Tammy flys for "the Delter"

We will never forget PanAm we will share our life changing experiences with our children and grandchildren and great grandchildren so they will continue the legacy🥂✈️😘😘🌹❤️🌐

expense was the main factor ,Pan Am had alot of older aircrafts and new ones were now triple in price , fuel factor, etc.. . But Pan Am was merged with United Airlines , same crew in in new uniform and Pan am in United colors.

Pan am was a GREAT airline back in the 60's when they had a decent CEO. Once Juan Trippe left the airline, it was just a matter of time before it went bankrupt. After Juan Trippe, were a stream of CEO's that did not know what they were doing. They traded in their smaller planes like the DC-10's for more 747's which were already flying half empty. They cut corners in the 80's to save money, and it would have worked too. But the bombing of flight 103 ended it right there and then.

@@gurjeetswallows6709 The cutting corners contributed to the events that led to Pan Am 103/Lockerbie. After Air India 182, the FAA and the EU JAA strictly mandated the "baggage renconciliation program" for all airlines (passengers must board a flight in which he has checked luggage; offload the luggage if the passenger fails to board, and hand-inspection of any unaccompanied luggage), which Pan Am failed to implement; they used the simple x-ray screening inspection, which was not that effective. Many victims of Lockerbie held Pan Am responsible for the incident as much as they held the bomber responsible. Notable ones who attacked Pan Am's failure to do baggage reconciliation were Virginia native Stephanie Bernstein (widow of Michael Bernstein, who flew in from Vienna to Frankfurt and then to Heathrow to board PA103), Port Jarvis couple Sue and Dan Cohen (who lost their only child, Theodora, a drama and theater student from Syracuse University), and New Jersey couple Kathleen and Jack Flynn (one of their sons' John Patrick, was a geography and economics student of Colgate University participating in the DIPA program of Syracuse, of which the Syracuse victims of Lockerbie were a part of)

Hello, Ascot ! I was based in LHR in '78 - '80. Best part of the video was the glimpse of our briefing rooms in London. What a wonderful glimpse into our lives back then, this makes the memories so vivid !

And I was 7 hahahaha

I am so glad to read your comments. Almost similar to you, when I was 15 I flew for the first time from Puerto Rico to New York and 13 years later I became a Pan Am flight attendant.

Thanks for posting this video. My Pan Am experience as a kid will always have a special place in my heart.

Salsa Showcase Did you all know that the airline was going to go bust at the time?

Part of the airline was sold to Delta Airlines and the other part was going to continue flying to latin America and it was a shock for all of us when we found out that they folded.

Salsa Showcase what's the big story of Evelyn

Pan am was a GREAT airline back in the 60's when they had a decent CEO. Once Juan Trippe left the airline, it was just a matter of time before it went bankrupt. After Juan Trippe, were a stream of CEO's that did not know what they were doing. They traded in their smaller planes like the DC-10's for more 747's which were already flying half empty. They cut corners in the 80's to save money, and it would have worked too. But the bombing of flight 103 ended it right there and then.

Do you know how os Diego now?

same here

What was classy about it or them? Looked to me like a bunch of non-focused FAs.

Ross McD Maybe everyone on those planes back then were happy because their penises and vaginas weren't being fondled by the TSA.

Its worth thinking

Ingrid DeWitt Hi Ingrid. I flew PAA as a stand pax 4-6 times from the old airport in OSL via LHR to JFK or DTW in may of 87 and in 88. I was an exchange student in Upper Michigan. When did you fly for PAA? I miss PAA and TWA. A Swedish friend of mine flew for PAA from 81-85 I think. Then I flew DL from Oslo to JFK dec 1st 1993. A-310.That was not good. I talked to a german AH that had worked in PAA since the mid 60s. She almost started to cry, she thought things were so bad.

@@torgeirbrandsnes1916 I started flying for Pan Am in April 1977. I was London based from April 77 until Dec. 77, then transferred to IAH for 2 months then transferred to JFK in Feb. 78 until Dec. 4th 1991. You could of been on one of my flights. I was Norwegian qualified, so I did a lot of Oslo trips. Yes the demise of Pan Am was very sad. What was your Swedish friends name?

Ingrid DeWitt Thank you for your answer. Her name is Kristina. I have forgotten her last name, but she did AH training at MIA in 1981. Now she lives is GOT. Me, I worked as a Red cap for SAS (SK) from 1996-2007. After two back surgeries in 7 months it was game over for me reg work.

@@ingriddewitt3466 Hi Ingrid. In June 1987, I flew JFK-LHR on a 747, and then connected to a 727 for LHR-OSL-HEL. I then did the reverse in August 1987. I think the 727 was Clipper Dashaway both times. The OSL stop was about an hour on the ground. I remember the Norwegian security force boarding and inspecting the plane with the passengers on it. They pulled up the cushions for the empty seats. Kind of crazy to think you might have been on the same flights.

@@donaldsullivan8901 I very well could of been on those flights!

G G so do I

Same

So true. I knew most of this crew, and most of the PA103 crew. Still hard - but what memories !

Actually, reading through the copious amount of books on the subject I would say that Trippe had his contribution to Pan Am's eventual downfall. He was a lummox when it comes to politics, which alienated Pan Am from the politicians who controlled the airlines via the CAB back then, causing other airlines to muscle in on Pan Am's lucrative route & continually depriving Pan Am of domestic routes. And his choice of routes to fly doesn't make economic sense (Pan Am served Rock Sound in the Bahamas because he had a home there). He was too brash by ordering too many 747s for a projected market growth that eventually did not come to fruition thanks to the oil crisis, and because he committed to the 747 Pan Am became the guinea pig for other airlines to troubleshoot the 747 in service. And of course, he didn't have a proper succession plan. The ineptitude of his successor only adds to the problems that he caused.

BB MM They say Diego is still flying but with delta.

Tryggvi Tómasson At one time, Tryggvi, pan Am did serve Iceland. From New York and then on to Glasgow or London.

Pan am was a GREAT airline back in the 60's when they had a decent CEO. Once Juan Trippe left the airline, it was just a matter of time before it went bankrupt. After Juan Trippe, were a stream of CEO's that did not know what they were doing. They traded in their smaller planes like the DC-10's for more 747's which were already flying half empty. They cut corners in the 80's to save money, and it would have worked too. But the bombing of flight 103 ended it right there and then.