When I started flying for the airlines in the late 70’s I heard about “the good old days”. Now when you talk with senior airline employees, they talk about “the good old days” and are talking about the late 70’s and 80’s.
Which means that for the new hires today, this is the “good old days” for them.
So what was it really like flying in the “good old days”? Was it as glamorous as people say?
Well we found this article from the Telegraph which we found interesting.
Titled ‘Cigarette smoke hid the smell of fear’: what flying in the Sixties was really like”
Check out the story and relive what flying was like back in the glamorous “good old days”
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