Fun to watch. Air travel really was a different world in the 60's. In many ways so antiquated by 21st century standards, but also so much classier and more civilized than today.
RaysRoost Hi Ray, I have this film up in color now; not the best color, but thought I'd pass on the info. It's right next to this B&W version in the playlist, "Airliner Promo Films".
Here is another big thank you for posting this classic film! All of the scenery brings back so many great memories. After joining the USAF that year I went on to meet my future wife (of now 47 years) in a little southern church at a Christmas party.
There were hundreds of planes in the air back in that day, today there are many more flights taking place. It reminds us how quickly life changes....great video...some pretty quaint stuff preceding the internet era!
Check out the scene at 3:45 when the passenger asks if he can get on an earlier flight. If you asked that question now days, the airline person would say "Earlier flight? Huh, you're lucky you're are getting on this flight!". Or they would say "I can get you on the 3pm flight instead of the 7:30pm one for a $200 change fee, plus the difference in fare which is $450, plus $25 per bag, plus a $10 up charge for the cramped middle seat I'm giving you, and finally, don't forget to put 25 cents into the oxygen mask above your seat or it won't fall in case of a sudden change in cabin pressure."
I live in Ottawa where there are flights to Toronto with Air Canada every hour. I once got at an airport a little early and Air Canada made an announcement that passengers booked on a later flight can get on one that was soon departing. It's a smart move for airlines as they free up later seats that they can sell. So they were able to get my checked bag on the earlier flight and then have it transferred over to my connecting flight. The flights were on time, and my baggage made it all the way to my destination. A few years later I was in Toronto on business and I was heading back to Ottawa a little earlier than I expected. So I then requested to get on an earlier flight, but because I checked a bag they said it was impossible! My boss who was heading to Montréal, and a coworker heading to Québec City both managed to get on earlier flights because they didn't check their bags. So I think if it suits airlines, they will request that change. But if it inconveniences them, then I am stuck with my reservation!
Or more likely the guy gets bumped from an oversold flight, gets packed in the back of another flight three hours later with a connection, then gets dragged off and tased by TSA because his briefcase slid from under the seat in front of him. All because of the dozens of people who dragged on full size luggage and stuffed the bins full to avoid the $50 fee haha
I remember those days, all those companies competing for your business, all the kids got pin on pilots wings, comfortable spacious seats, looked like you were on fire when the "no smoking" light went out but it all got sucked out, and they fed you!!!
As an IT specialist of 31 years (retired 2012), I was just a kid in 1965 and what they call computers in this video just kills me. The is before the Sabre system was developed by IBM. But they had a lot fewer planes, people and flights to keep track of. So much paper and pencils and pens, yikes!
This video is more a commercial for AT&T than United or the DC-8. Most of the rhetoric is about telephone lines and switches providing data and voice communications for aviation in general, I worked for AT&T and still remember some of the equipment shown hare.
Today's in 2015s air travel, it is so crazy dumb and very stressful, your legs starts a shaken so bad, and it is so jam packed in both airplane and airport, you be banging your head against the wall!!! Not Like it way its used to be back in the good old days of very long time ago!!!!!.....
Damn, I love these old films. Just look at what they considered high tech. I love the little plastic pieces that the radar operator moves across the screen to follow each aircraft as it passes, And all of that paper...where is all the tons and tons of the dispatch paper that was generated by those printers being stored?
You still can't have breakfast in New York and a second in Los Angeles. If you eat at 6 am, and flew to LAX, you'd get there for lunch more than a second breakfast. But that's still a marvel for humanity.
PS,. sorry about this. I remember in the late 80s flying to Spain and seeing a load of 880s or 990s flying for Spantax. It may have been one of the islands I can't remember.
That was pretty cool, things were quite different pre 9-11. I had the fortune of flying then and now half the passengers shown would have been arrested for disrupting a flight.
True enough! They were flying west into the prevailing winds which are from the east. Normally the winds would be against you in that situation. And that family looked sooooooo fake!
Thomass Trivetti I've lived that in France a while ago. we would book trains in the late afternoon. pop at the station and just ask if they could move our booking forward.
So funny, no chanche today of changing flights that easy. Itll be like "flights full" and if youre lucky theyll say "Sure i can book you in the 3 o'clock flight...your penalty will be $$$$"
Thinking I would be a clever dick and say,, 'look a Convair 880', bah! you told us to look out for it already. How is a guy meant to get his anorak stripes or mothers basement badge? Tell me, how?
When will they introduce the antigravity craft they are using in the Secret Space Program?Boeing, Lockeed Martin and General Electric know about and are involved in their manufacture.
Everyone dressed so nice and had nice manners.a golden era gone forever !
+Paul Boulter No kidding. Today we are like cattle in a truck.
And no screaming babies! 😆
***** true, just screaming turbojets!
It irks me when people say that. FYI - that's what babies do and another reality check here - you were a baby once too.
Big Valley
People probably got annoyed when I cried as a baby, so now I get to be the annoyed one... it all comes full-circle.
Fun to watch. Air travel really was a different world in the 60's. In many ways so antiquated by 21st century standards, but also so much classier and more civilized than today.
Great shots of my old dispatch office at ORD. Seeing some of my co-workers that have passed on.
RaysRoost Hi Ray, I have this film up in color now; not the best color, but thought I'd pass on the info. It's right next to this B&W version in the playlist, "Airliner Promo Films".
so easy to fly back in those days .now is just a nightmare.sad world we are living.
How could anyone thumbs-down this???
Now, that was class!
Here is another big thank you for posting this classic film! All of the scenery brings back so many great memories. After joining the USAF that year I went on to meet my future wife (of now 47 years) in a little southern church at a Christmas party.
pretty great man.
These are fantastic to watch. Simpler times!
No smelly people in flip-flops and shorts !!
There were hundreds of planes in the air back in that day, today there are many more flights taking place. It reminds us how quickly life changes....great video...some pretty quaint stuff preceding the internet era!
My first airline ride, I rode that United DC-8 Chicago to Los Angeles, and to San Diego, Navy Boot Camp in 1968
Stunning views of Dulles in its early days.
Check out the scene at 3:45 when the passenger asks if he can get on an earlier flight. If you asked that question now days, the airline person would say "Earlier flight? Huh, you're lucky you're are getting on this flight!".
Or they would say "I can get you on the 3pm flight instead of the 7:30pm one for a $200 change fee, plus the difference in fare which is $450, plus $25 per bag, plus a $10 up charge for the cramped middle seat I'm giving you, and finally, don't forget to put 25 cents into the oxygen mask above your seat or it won't fall in case of a sudden change in cabin pressure."
CrocDoc1 maybe at United
I live in Ottawa where there are flights to Toronto with Air Canada every hour. I once got at an airport a little early and Air Canada made an announcement that passengers booked on a later flight can get on one that was soon departing. It's a smart move for airlines as they free up later seats that they can sell. So they were able to get my checked bag on the earlier flight and then have it transferred over to my connecting flight. The flights were on time, and my baggage made it all the way to my destination.
A few years later I was in Toronto on business and I was heading back to Ottawa a little earlier than I expected. So I then requested to get on an earlier flight, but because I checked a bag they said it was impossible! My boss who was heading to Montréal, and a coworker heading to Québec City both managed to get on earlier flights because they didn't check their bags.
So I think if it suits airlines, they will request that change. But if it inconveniences them, then I am stuck with my reservation!
Or more likely the guy gets bumped from an oversold flight, gets packed in the back of another flight three hours later with a connection, then gets dragged off and tased by TSA because his briefcase slid from under the seat in front of him. All because of the dozens of people who dragged on full size luggage and stuffed the bins full to avoid the $50 fee haha
Here's a brand new version in COLOUR!! th-cam.com/video/DZ4Foh_HLDU/w-d-xo.html
Can't get enough of the the old Bell System!
I remember those days, all those companies competing for your business, all the kids got pin on pilots wings, comfortable spacious seats, looked like you were on fire when the "no smoking" light went out but it all got sucked out, and they fed you!!!
Lol you must be my age ;) I loved the pilots wing pins!
Thanks for sharing, had to chuckle when I saw the old rotary pay phone at 4:34 :). I really enjoy your channel.
Thanks a bunch JK, I really appreciate the good words.
At 3:50.. "I "m Booked For 730. Any Chance I Can Get Out Earlier?" "I Can Book You On The 3 O'Clock To Los Angeles Sir" .. WOW!!!!
Air travel was great in the 60's. Today it is punishment.
and if your flight is overbooked, there is a chance that you're gonna get beaten and dragged of the plane for no reason.
Agreed. !
We arrived early as we have a great head wind!!!
As an IT specialist of 31 years (retired 2012), I was just a kid in 1965 and what they call computers in this video just kills me. The is before the Sabre system was developed by IBM. But they had a lot fewer planes, people and flights to keep track of. So much paper and pencils and pens, yikes!
The world change and will be changing for the worse , sad but true
This video is more a commercial for AT&T than United or the DC-8. Most of the rhetoric is about telephone lines and switches providing data and voice communications for aviation in general, I worked for AT&T and still remember some of the equipment shown hare.
varigdc10
There was a rabbit in the video? Must have missed it. ;)
wonderful just wonderful
“High speed computers” lol .
707, DC-8, 727, beauties of the past :)
@2:27: 720B
Today's in 2015s air travel, it is so crazy dumb and very stressful, your legs starts a shaken so bad,
and it is so jam packed in both airplane and airport, you be banging your head against the wall!!!
Not Like it way its used to be back in the good old days of very long time ago!!!!!.....
Cessna88
Your legs shake? Strange.
Sadly you speak truth. They are now flying buses. No elegance anymore, gone the wind! America slovenly nation.
Damn, I love these old films. Just look at what they considered high tech. I love the little plastic pieces that the radar operator moves across the screen to follow each aircraft as it passes, And all of that paper...where is all the tons and tons of the dispatch paper that was generated by those printers being stored?
Six String Löve
Republicans shredded and burned it... just like the Constitution.
This time was not as backward as we thought
You still can't have breakfast in New York and a second in Los Angeles.
If you eat at 6 am, and flew to LAX, you'd get there for lunch more than a second breakfast. But that's still a marvel for humanity.
Ok so I fancy myself an aircraft enthusiast but what plane is at 1:43? Can't remember seeing a plane where the rear fuse swings open. A Convair maybe?
I miss Continental Airlines.....
Look at all those ticket agents who lost their jobs with the computer age
The time where one could physically work in a database
The Glorious Airline travel of the 60s with all it't trimmings !!! Now where just Hamsters in a flying tube !!!! Very sad
Prog X
To this day you can still get bumped to First Class just for dressing up. It happens.
Lol!travel experience to be endured. X generation will never see this elegance while they text away! Except in videos
20:36 Flight girl offered him a date for dinner tonight. hehe
keytothegate K
She wanted the D.
PS,. sorry about this. I remember in the late 80s flying to Spain and seeing a load of 880s or 990s flying for Spantax. It may have been one of the islands I can't remember.
Muito bom o Vídeo
Hold on the 880 @3:20 is in Delta airlines livery. Do I get my badge?
That was pretty cool, things were quite different pre 9-11. I had the fortune of flying then and now half the passengers shown would have been arrested for disrupting a flight.
17:35 - I'm in love.
American Citizen
I prefer the far left @3:47. :-P
I like the way she said "we had headwinds today!" Is not it supposed to be a tailwind? Headwinds will slow you down.
+Anas Maaz She said "We didn't have the usual headwinds today."
True enough!
They were flying west into the prevailing winds which are from the east. Normally the winds would be against you in that situation.
And that family looked sooooooo fake!
so thats what it was like to have no change fees (4:05)
Thomass Trivetti I've lived that in France a while ago. we would book trains in the late afternoon. pop at the station and just ask if they could move our booking forward.
That big guy with seat extension wouldn't fit in modern economy seat
I would of killed to have had that group of passengers on my last flight. As opposed to the group of hyenas I was crammed in with.
Seat belt extension. Oh crap!
So funny, no chanche today of changing flights that easy. Itll be like "flights full" and if youre lucky theyll say "Sure i can book you in the 3 o'clock flight...your penalty will be $$$$"
you will not see that today in 2018
SHOW...
Must have been sponsored by Ma Bell!
It was exactly that! And had you watched the film to the very end, it was on the screen.
Thinking I would be a clever dick and say,, 'look a Convair 880', bah! you told us to look out for it already. How is a guy meant to get his anorak stripes or mothers basement badge? Tell me, how?
When will they introduce the antigravity craft they are using in the Secret Space Program?Boeing, Lockeed Martin and General Electric know about and are involved in their manufacture.
this is a Boeing 707! :)
>>-------------------> Me thinks the stewardess should have said, "We had a strong tailwind today!", not "...unusual headwinds...".
surearrow
To which the passenger replies, "And I just broke wind."
Prevailing winds go west to east. The plane was flying east to west so no tailwinds.