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November 21, 2014
by Jean Trinh Nov 21, 2014 Original Story Airlines aren’t what they used to be. With the cramped seats and having to pay to check our luggage, we can’t help but long for those good old days—like the kind of experience you would get from a Pan Am flight. For the nostalgic types, there’s the “Pan Am Experience” in Pacoima that lets you pretend for a few hours that you’re a passenger on a Pan Am flight from the ’70s (without ever taking off), complete with cocktails, a four-course meal and stewardess service. Air Hollywood, a production studio with aviation-themed film sets, is housing the four-hour “Pan Am Experience” that runs from about $300 to $350 a ticket. It comes […]
November 20, 2014
By Brian Sumers November 20, 2014 Original Story On Saturday, for the first time in decades, Rick Collins put on his Pan Am captain’s uniform with four gold epaulettes on the shoulders and boarded one of his airline’s Boeing 747s. The jacket was a bit snug but Collins hardly minded, given the evening’s nostalgia factor. Collins met his wife, a Pan Am flight attendant, on a 747 flight from New York to Los Angeles. Back in 1988, he was trying to be helpful, stowing a stroller for a passenger. “She was a little annoyed a rookie pilot would take her closet,” he said. “I was like, ‘Oh my gosh, I pissed her off.’?” Chagrined, he left for the plane’s upper […]
November 19, 2014
By EC Staff November 19, 2014 Original Story The Pan Am Experience promete llevarte a le época más lujosa de la aviación comercial pero sin dejar la tierra. Antiguamente abordar un avión no era tan habitual como ahora. Solo las personas adineradas podían costearse un pasaje aéreo y volar era sinónimo de estilo: vestirse con los mejores trajes, lucir las joyas más extravagantes, disfrutar de un elegante menú y de un servicio insuperable. The Pan Am Experience es una atracción que te permitirá volver al pasado durante unas horas y disfrutar de todo este lujo. Pan Am es la abreviación de Pan American World Airways, la aerolínea más importante de Estados Unidos que trabajó desde 1930 hasta inicio de los […]
November 18, 2014
By Jessica Plautz November 18, 2014 Original Story If you have flown economy class on an airline recently, you don’t need to be reminded that the standard of service has plummeted in recent years. Complimentary items are few and far between; the space between seats keeps shrinking; the actual seats are getting smaller as airlines remove that pesky padding to make room for even more seats. Some airlines now charge for a soda and space in the overhead bin. But it wasn’t always this way. One Los Angeles-based company is playing into travelers’ nostalgia for a more stylish era of air travel. For the first time since Pan Am ceased operations, you can now “relive the magic of this golden era […]