Glamour in the Skies: Vintage Air Travel Photos

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http://www.weather.com/travel/commuter-conditions/news/vintage-air-travel-photos-20130513

Indeed, flying during the the 50s through the 60s was a more pampered, relaxed experience, enjoyed by a select, globetrotting few. But others also think flying then was never as exciting or glamorous as many people make it out to be.
"Things were comparatively more luxurious in the 1950s, but it's also true that fares in those days were extremely expensive by today's standards," Patrick Smith, an airline pilot and author of Cockpit Confidential: Everything You Need to Know About Air Travel, tells Weather.com. "I was sitting in economy class recently: I had roughly as much leg and elbow room as I would have had on a plane 30 years ago, except I also had inflight WiFi, seatback video with a hundred movies to choose from, and reasonably decent food. All for a surprisingly affordable fare."

 

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Circa 1945: Stewards serving passengers on board an airplane. (Hulton Archive/Getty Images)


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Circa 1970: The president of Playboy Enterprises, Hugh Hefner with girlfriend, Barbi Benton in his luxury DC-9 aircraft 'The Big Bunny' at Heathrow. (Keystone/Getty Images)


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