An Airplane Trip By Jet (1961) 

Sixty years later, it takes more than six hours to fly from JFK to SFO on a more densely crowded cabins with unfriendly passengers and cabin crew, and worse yet-- with no food.

I'm almost 80 and I can tell you, as a passenger since the late fifties, the planes, room, food, etc., were a delight 'back in the day'(I've only flown first class once so I'm speaking of coach). Flying was fun, not that far out of reach for the average person's pocketbook, there was dignity, a sense of genuine hospitality. I just flew over the pacific about five months ago (having taken about 10 years off from flying) and don't ever want to get on a plane again. Noise, no food (plastic wrapped peanuts do not constitute food), cold (no blankets) sardine accommodations..I could go on. Things have changed, some for the better (safety, time, yes) but previous experience (lots of it) over the years has almost always been delightful, this last flight was simply an endurance exercise for myself and the people around me....not one was comfortable, we all just endured. I am in excellent health, agile and capable so none of this was due to my age, I'm simply old enough to have a perspective from previous years.

woke culture was decades away...

I can still remember my first flight at age 6. I flew as an “unaccompanied minor” on a shiny American DC-6. My dad put me on the plane in Tulsa OK, and my granddad met me when it landed in Nashville, TN. Fast forward 29 years and I was the dad putting my 6 year old son on a plane in Cincinnati to be met by his grandfather in Nashville. Funny how life goes in circles.

Sue and bob are someone's grandpa and grandma now.

Back in the day when everyone was polite and nice. What has become of this world...

“Look now, the pilots dropped us to 2500 ft over Denver”

Real seats with real food and real drinks, those were the days!

So sad as this Airport would later be renamed JFK Airport to memorialize the assassinated President Kennedy in 63😢!!!!

Just imagine this level of social grace with the modern safety and technology of today’s air travel. Look how every one wore their best Sunday morning clothes, every one courteous and polite. Real food and over the top service.

Man, listen to the noise of those engines! No large bypass ratio like nowadays, no cold section and large fan at the front. Pure unfiltered, unabated power like a jet fighter. Love it!

Romance and glamour left the airline industry in about 1973. I'd kill for that seat space today. That coach class is better than today's first class.

Imagine if you could go back to this time, how grateful you would be.

LOVE these old aviation/travel videos!! reminds me of better times we'll never see again, more's the pity!

Does anyone remember when airports has machines that sold insurance policies for passengers to buy? A comforting thought for people already scared to fly.

40 years ago when I was a child I flew in a Boeing 707 of American Airlines from MMMX to KSAT and the flight attendants gave me wings of AA which was customary in the flight and I still have them. what memories.

My mother worked for American for 30 years and she took my brother and I on many trips to Europe, Hawaii and other places during the early 60's. This video brings back wonderful memories of those days.

Back when air travel was an experience people looked forward to. As a kid I got a taste of the tail end of that era in the 80's - I remember having access a lounge on the second floor of a 747 cabin! but man those days are gone for the average traveller today… ahhh well.

Another world gone forever and soon to be forgotten.

" And here comes Miss Moray with SKIPPY" Hilarious!