New TV show on the life of PanAm FAs in the 1960s...

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You can't fly it anymore or see its famous logo at the airport, but the airline that came to symbolize the glamour of the heady early days of air travel is a hot commodity once again.

Pan American Airways -- known to travelers around the world simply as Pan Am -- may be heading to the small screen as the setting for a nighttime drama about flight attendants working for the iconic carrier in the 1960s, when flying was the domain of the rich and famous.

The characters are fictional, but "Pan Am" the series -- a pilot for which has been ordered by ABC -- will draw on the experiences of executive producer Nancy Hult Ganis, who was herself a stewardess for seven years.
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Story here:

Btw....neat pic of the first revenue flight of a PanAm 747 is neat, but where is the FE?

http://www.cnn.com/2011/TRAVEL/02/28/pan.am.comeback/index.html?hpt=C2
 
Re: What happened to these days

I'm glad that show has a former Pan Am stewardess (yes, I use the term stewardess not flight attendant, not to be un-PC but because that was her job title) as executive producer. It'll give it some authenticity.

Edit: It looks like Mike has started a thread and given this particular topic it's own place... will put comment there.

Edit again: Dammit quit moving my posts around! (just kidding :) )
 
He is that fellow over the FO's right sholder with the, "screw you guys!" look on his face...

I am really excited about this show. I hope it's a cross between Mad Men and the movie Catch Me if You Can.

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Now I see both those shows referenced in that article. Great minds think alike! :)
 
I fly with a lot of former Pan Am flight attendants. Different times, my friends! Flying was a luxury and different societal expectations. Not necessarily better, but certainly different.
 
Grew up in a Pan Am town- the seaplane hanger was still there when I was younger, many Pan Am kids at school, sister married the son of a Pan Am purser. Her father-in-law wrote a book that has a compilation of stories from Pan Am employees going back to the early days up through the very last flight. Cool book.
 
Could a show on 60s stewardesses be done without it degenerating into a porn movie? After all, that was the "coffee, tea, or me" generation!
 
MikeD said:
but where is the FE?
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Pilotforhire587 said:
The FE was still doing the walk around...
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Looks like he might be right here... keeping an eye on others who are doing a walk around of their own.

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