That is the spirit and the people of Pan Am.

Thank you for sharing that ! It’s a beautiful story ! It’s such a shame what happened to Beirut, it was so beautiful

thank you so much for sharing your story with us.

I WAS born then. Women were not allowed on the flight deck as flight engineers or pilots. There were no female executives at the airlines. Women could *only* be “stewardesses”. And they were not paid fairly or treated fairly. Attention was paid to weight and appearance, not to ability to handle emergencies or aeronautical knowledge. And you never see black ppl in these old airline ads. That same male executive passenger being waited on by a woman? You’d never have seen those roles reversed back then like they are now. I think we’re a whole lot better off now than we were then.

@@andrealuvshouse You think wrong. You look at it as a politiclly correct 'woke' individual ! I look at it in terms of a U.S. society today in complete freefall of morality , compassion and decency ! Today you have transgender flight attendants masquerading as women flight attendants on JetBlue . United Airlines lowering it's 'cockpit' flight standards so the company can hire minorities in higher numbers bowing to the extremists at BLM/Antifa. Southwest flight attendant slapped accross the face by a unruly 'greyhound bus' passenger because she simply asked this thug to follow standard inflight instructions. JetBlue ticket agents treat you like your doing them the favor flying them etc etc etc.... Excuse me but Beautiful Singapore Airlines or Lufthansa female flight attendants continue to wait on male passengers so what is the problem 'Karen' ??? I think we were whole lot better as a society then than we are now ; a society decadent , filthy and corrupted.

@@andrealuvshouse I agree. Women were 2nd class citizens in regular life and even more so with all airlines. Women were rudely harassed and even expected to submit to the whims of some overbearing pilots and male bosses. Female flight attendants were always hired on their appearance of beauty and were strictly told to maintain certain weight regulations. Male flight attendants were unheard of mostly due to most pilots and airline bosses being heterosexual with ulterior motives toward female attendants. Only certain present day airlines follow such biased practices while most other airlines are equal opportunity employers and offer a great deal of training so their workers relate well to each other and to the public.

@@curtischildress9580 Agree because you're another 'woke' individual whom has no clue of its implications of the lifestyle forced upon the general public today.. It's amazing to me how filth from a "certain group" permeates even on a forum about Pan American World Airways ! First of all Curtis get history straight not the political incorrect nonsense you are spewing here.. Women entered the work force in incredible numbers due to the Second World War ! If it wasn't for 'Rosie the Riveter' WOMEN in the factories building everything from B29 Superfortresses to Sherman tanks the outcome of the war would be completely different ! Women were 2nd class citizens ???? Yet these so called 2nd class citizens were lifted out of the Great Depression ! On the contrary , there were countless male flight attendants called 'stewarts' with many memoirs of their stories for 'imperial' airlines which don't describe the lies spewing here ! As well female flight attendants/stewardess.. "Certain present day airlines follow such biased practices" BIASED FOR WHOM ?? YOU and certain group !!! Ironically it is these very airlines to this very day offer the best product possible to the flying public while most other airlines ( U.S. carriers) are equal opportunity employers and offer the worst experience possible for the flying public ! Curtis keep believing you're false narrative.

@@andrealuvshouse You could be a female engineer on the ground though. One of my relatives is way past retirement and she and her husband both worked for Rolls Royce aero division, they were both involved in the design and testing of the turbines.

I think Singapore and or emirates do use Pan Am flight attendant training tapes to train their own flight attendants. Must be the reason why they’re absolutely fabulous characters when it comes to onboard service. The Pan Am tradition lives on.

I wasn't alive back then, what happened in 1988?

@@abiwii16Pan Am 103 is on Wikipedia.

He's in first class, it looks like, on an intercontinental flight.

Low fares brought low people.

103 was London to New York, still the most important and highest revenue international route in US aviation. It was the route of British Airways BA1, with the Concorde and the later all-business A318.

You missed out. Wardair in Canada was as good. The best got taken out in the rush for money over quality

With the invention of convection ovens in the late 1960s, I'm presuming.

I think there was some cold dish as part of the meal and he was in sour mood an looking for an excuse to complain.

@@ballasog 😂😂😂...

I think the fact that it came from Maxim's of Paris probably made up for it.

No hot food in economy was an international IATA rule during the regulation era. It started out as Tourist Class in 1952, where you had to buy your own cold food box. It became Economy Class in 1958 where only a cold sandwich was allowed. In fact, due to a dispute, IATA ruled that 2.5 cm2 of the bread had to be uncovered. I think it was the increasing jet travel in the mid-1960's, where planes didn't land few hours to refuel, that ended this.

I think it's it's odd too. 103 was the flight ....ugh...way after this. I'll Google it.

I noticed that too. How bizarre!

Pan Am's flight numbers usually never changed. Flight 103 was London to New York. Flight 107 was London to Washington Dulles. They kept those numbers for decades. The whole system. I worked for Pan Am in the last two years of their life.

Yes, I don't understand why they couldn't foresee what would happen almost 30 years later.

Yes, I guess random coincidences do happen and can sometimes be mildly interesting.

Thank you! We updated!

You're VERY welcome!

Women have the right to work in all types of jobs and this is a good thing to be fair for everyone who is capable of doing these jobs.

@@curtischildress9580 You forgot to mention that they're called "Flight Attendants" now and that the term "Stewardess" is outdated and could be offensive.

@@bobbyrice how is it offensive, it’s simply the job of an attendant, your cruise ship has a steward

@@bobbyrice OFFENSIVE.....yeah, I'd like to see a stewardess tell me why its offensive,