A magic airline that sadly passed into aviation history.

Those were the days of flying. Lots of space, good food, pampering, and quality of service. Today, everything went down the tube.

Wish Pan-Am was still around. Such an iconic symbol of America and the Jet Age

I have flown on both the 707 and DC-8, and one thing I can tell you for absolute certainty about the ambient cabin experience is this: it is far from quiet! Vibration-free, sure. Quiet? Not a chance.

Class!From an age when international air travel was something to behold.We still miss you Pan Am.

I remember a flight aboard a Pan Am 747 from London to JFK in 1981. I was 17, alone and having the time of my life returning to L.A. from Berlin. Smooth flying all the way, blue skies, beautiful all the way listening to The Carpenters on my headphones while eating Filet Mignon (the Stewardess took a liking to me and gave me a first class dinner.) thinking I would love to do this all the time...and I did. I've travelled all over the world, never owned a house, never lost one either...NO REGRETS.

I often compare TWA to the White Star Line, however if TWA was the White Star Line of airlines, then Pan Am was the Cunard of airlines. All four were elegant, luxurious, and actually cared about customer service.

8:21 "celebrating the queens birthday" Its the same queen in 2019...

Crazy that the queen shown is still the same queen today

The legendary Jet Clipper from Pan Am - back in the day the fabulous airborne version of the Twentieth Century Limited.

As someone that lives in the depths of the Southern Hemisphere, I will forever be amazed that American flughts are 6-7 hours to Europe.

Flying used to be enjoyable before being treated like cattle with no leg room. The food service was unbelievable and they had actual stewardesses who treated you with common courtesy. As a child I flew on one of the early Pan Am 707's in 1964 from Tokyo to the USA. It was unbelievable. Truly the golden age of flying commercial.

Great vid. Thanks for posting: I miss flying Pan Am. "The year 1954.." as a 1957 Dodge Custom (1:02) drives by. Pan Am humor; excellent!

Pan Am the best airline ever. It is such a shame we no longer have it.

Ah the good ole days when customer service reigned supreme comfortable seats, pleasant flight crew good food and no masks...

Thank you for this video!! X

Just to point out that this is a Pan Am publicity video and therefore shows everything at it's very best. Almost everything shown aboard the aircraft in this video is the FIRST CLASS (F class) cabin. There is an economy Y cabin at the back shown briefly at 6.52 with 3 X 3 seating and no lobster or free champagne! You will see no table cloth and just a tray meal. The strange powder rooms with no doors are fake. The lounge scene of well dressed young couples squeezed round those tables enjoying champagne and canapes are not realistic in that First class cabins were not normally filled with well dressed young couples but by suited middle age or elderly businessmen who were not normally inclined to squeeze round tables in the small forward lounge. The seat pitch in the First class cabin was around 38-42 inches on Boeing 707's - not sufficient for the trolley to be pulled in front of the passengers as shown at 6.39.

They convinced me. From now on, I only fly 1954 PanAm !

I first flew PanAm on my way to college in '65 from HNL to LAX at the age of 18. We had engine trouble a 3rd of the way and had to return. I remember it was Rainbow economy for $110,00 and included champagne and dinner. Fresh fruit to follow. The sound system was Sony and had the best variety of music and the movie was Sabrina on 9" BW monitors on the coat and hat rack (no bins). Too much carryon these days. Those were indeed the years of flying.

Very nice.

When women wore gloves and men wore suit and tie on the plane.

Great advert in every aspect !

Fabulous

Wow just wow!!!

Smoking allowed😊

The Pan Am Clipper was a flying boat, not a 707. Clipper service was simply the call sign for the transoceanic flights.

I flew on one as a toddler. My mother described the plane as very luxurious. We had a private compartment with a sofa and armchairs, chrystal, silve r, and china. Our window fell in, my mother screamed and the steward and my father ran in and put the window back in. I was standing by the window and ran to my mother right away so was safe!!!! God was good to us. We were coming back to the States from Congo after WWI I.

I still remember the days when flying was a pleasure. All the airline personnel were pleasant and efficient. There was enough leg room so that when the person in front reclined their seat, their head was not in your lap. Even in coach meals were served with silverware and consisted of meat, potatoes, vegetables and a dessert. People actually dressed nicely for their trip. Today, all the airline personnel seem annoyed at everything. The airlines are cramming more rows of seats into an aircraft by reducing leg room. IMO seats are so cramped that they are now unsafe in the event of an emergency. Meals are no longer complementary. They consist of stale sandwiches which the airlines overcharge for. They are probably stale because few buy them so the airlines keeps them for subsequent flights. To be fair, it is not only the airlines. Passengers have become more inconsiderate, demanding and rude.

A lot better back than.

So jealous of the coffee they had. Unlike the liquid mud we are served today.

Back the good old days. You could bring almost anything on you when you board. No terrorist fear

Now we fly...as close to one another, and as cramped...as SARDINES IN A CAN!

That is why we were not allowed to tell we were employees..free coach $10 first...anywhere in the world... The food was FAAAAAAAABULOUS

Nice cabin & nice service. Unlike today that flying on cramped seat (if using LCC). Playing cards, puzzle, or talking each other. Unlike today which uses IFE (if not fly with LCC).

Yeah, those days are gone for sure.

I took a PanAm flight to China in 1985, and that was near the end of the airline’s existence, unfortunately. PanAm attendants had the best uniforms, really professional and high class. They made passengers feel welcome and special. I guess deregulation (elimination of the Civil Aeronautics Board) and then Reagan firing all the air traffic controllers right after he took office really took its toll and permanently damaged air travel forever forward. Look at nowadays… no more meals per se (they optionally “throw” you a burrito in a bag, if anything), charge you plenty for the privilege of bringing some luggage with you, and can’t even handle money any more. You even have to scan your own boarding pass yourself at the gate. I don’t think the flight attendants want to do anything at all except tell you to clear the aisles and remain seated. They must have the same union that gas stations have that created pump-your-own gas and eliminated checking your water and oil for free. America WAS great before Wall Street moguls took all that away from us, and banks used to pay decent interest on your savings.

Working for Pan American Airlines was hot stuff.

Not a snarling, swearing trumpette to be found.

Quality people, not the riff-raff of today

Flying today is the same as taking Greyhound.

Great Historical Video But When I Think Of The Pan Am Clipper, I Think Of The Boeing 314 & It's Unscheduled Round The World Flight.

I feel like these days, even on flight 1000, the “paper flight,” I would have no leg room and the food would suck

I wonder this took was filmed on the GROUND!

The flying public at that time were the top 10%ers of their era. Rarely could an average person afford an airline ticket. The jet airliner was then the newest toy of the bourgeoisie. The schmaltz about the noise level and the comfort and the smoothness of course were things thought up on Madison Avenue to augment the 'flying experience'. Jets today do have noise, just as they did then. They do respond to air pressure changes no matter how high they fly. Of course not like a DC3 did but the "experience' was enhanced by the polite and courteous service from the staff. The meals were cooked to order - your choice of prime rib and or roast turkey with stuffing and mashed. Tough choice! So if they made a profit back then with that kind of service, what would it take to retrieve that service on a newly christened "1000" flight today? What would the ticket cost? Would you find anti-maskers on board disrupting the "experience" or would the on-board FAA agent handle the background noise?

Allowing for inflation, today's first class, flatbed international travel, with great personal service like that in this video, plus flat bed in a semi-private compartment, etc, is cheaper than today's economy class. In fact, the 8+ hours flight I took last week from Venice to Newark, in terms of 1958 dollars versus 2023, the flight was cheaper. To quote from an credible online source, $1 in 1958 is worth $10.45 in 2023. This is because the annual inflation rate between 1958 and 2023 was 3.68%. The total inflation between 1958 and 2023 was 935.38%. An economy class, non-stop, round trip (EWR-VCE-EWR) today can be bought for $950. A First Class ticket about $9,000.

Rumble must be the way forward

that same atlantic air ocean has become very overcrowded

I was definitely born in the wrong era

6:37... Caviar and lobster... The most luxury menu... Some wine with it.... Sparkling wine called Champagne... Dom Perignon 1947

05:10 - 05:33 Best part of the whole clip. How did they get that shot, I wonder?

ALL LUXURY has disappeared!, Airplanes and everything else!. Travel was luxurious trains,planes,boats.Take anyone and see!, We took a train there were people in the vista liner who hadn't bathed in a cpl weeks or more not from here!.People go out in PJ's anymore they just don't care what they look like so sad what we have become!.

Everything is relative..... they were quieter than prop aircraft and far less vibration ... flew higher and therefore less impacted by weather ... and a LOT faster ... but still a long haul in a seat is a long haul... but huge step forward.

It is class, called first and you will still pay for it or not fly.

Lovely post from the year I was born. I wonder what the passenger's conversation was. 'Ooh wonderful way to travel - and did you know my husband only had to sell our house to pay for the tickets'

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Five minute ovens = Microwaves ☺

Nice food, well dressed passengers...Except for the smokers, nice.

I wish I could've experienced the short lived jet age of the 1960s and the introduction of commercial air travel in the 1930s. Flying today is dreadful.

1:18 I have never seen that handwriting gadget! What is that called?

Ahhhh...but then they start letting the bus-people fly and downhill it alllll went.

the good ole times....passengers treated with the very best

...PAN AMERICA.. A era da Aviaçao a Jato.. 🍸💜🍰...Brasil..

i hate it when cheap people whine about how they dislike air travel and blame the airlines. literally anyone can travel to anywhere in the world for $500 (one way) ... you get what you pay for. want a quality flight experience? get a business class seat.

Jose Ferrer narrating?

Nowadays is safer but packed in coach :-(

Boy have things changed now. Cramped seating, lousy food or nothing at all, and unruly passengers,

The theory of relativity

How could it take 6 1/2 hours in 1958 when today you can't get there in that little time? The time to take the NY to London is 7.5 hours if you are lucky!

Would be nice to go back and travel like this, but it was quite expensive in its time. Basically there was no "economy" class by today's standards. Or maybe we can say today we have "sub-economy", cramped but quite cheap. Frankly I'd rather spend my money at the destination than on amenities en route. You can still fly in style today by buying a business or first class ticket.

There was only one class of flying then - the rich class