By Business & Commercial Aviation February 3, 2017 Original Story Talaat Captan is founder and CEO of Air Hollywood, an aviation-themed movie studio that has everything found at an airport—except planes that fly. The studios and props are used not only for entertainment purposes, but also to assist families living with autism overcome the anxiety of air travel by experiencing the process first through their Open Sky for Autism program. Read more of William Garvey’s interview: Questions for Talaat Captan, Founder & CEO Of Air Hollywood. http://s2.content.video.llnw.net/smedia/4afbdcc40baf44d3830c4f79d6b39567/ub/wvbnT0RIlnKC5GbSHXrk4-X4DNX--6WXvaeKAdQfs/february-2017-fast-five.mp4

By William Garvey January 25, 2017 Original Story Talaat Captan Founder & CEO Air Hollywood Los Angeles, California After civil war erupted in 1975, 17-year-old Captan decided to leave his native Lebanon and seek his future elsewhere. Once granted entry to the U.S., he quickly settled in California where he attended Palomar College. Invited by a college friend to assist in his distribution of VHS and Betamax films in 1980, he did so until another distributor offered him a job selling films internationally. Even though “they kept giving me movies nobody wanted,” he analyzed the tastes and expectations of his clientele and “was able to sell.” That success prompted him to launch his own distribution company and later to make […]

By Farley Elliott December 29, 2016 Original Story From plush seats to cart service, this dinner experience has all the nostalgia you could ask for Do you long for the days of the quality in-flight meal, when attendants would pass through ample airplane cabins serving food fit for kings — but at 10,000 feet? If you’re truly jonesing to relive the golden era of airline travel, all you have to do is head to the Valley for a seat inside thePan Am Experience. You may have heard of the Pan Am Experience before — the limited-run dinner event has been happening on and off since 2014 — but you may not have actually driven out to Pacoima to make the […]

By Kathy Strong December 3, 2016 Original Story If you long for the nostalgic days of flying when passengers dressed up, wined and dined and enjoyed plenty of personal service, then now you can take a “fantasy flight” to relive a romantic era when flying was one of the best parts of your vacation. Before the long security lines, cramped seats and packaged food, airline travel was an experience, especially flying first class on Pan Am in the 1970s when comfort and service were a given. Pan Am’s famous jet-age blue globe logo has remained in our culture long after the airline’s demise in 1991 as a symbol of American belief in economic, technological and social progress. Now you can […]