Back when Flight maps looked detailed and well designed instead of boring and informative. If you want to look at the map in even higher resolution, it’s available here.
Back when Flight maps looked detailed and well designed instead of boring and informative. If you want to look at the map in even higher resolution, it’s available here.
Not gonna lie, go on a flight from France to South America on an Air France plane in 1954 would have been pretty sick. 100% they would have been smoking on those flights, back in my day even in the 80’s airplane armrests still had those foldable ashtrays built in.
I mean have you ever wondered why there is a dedicated “NO SMOKING” sign next to the “SEATBELTS ON” sign, even though everyone knows you can’t do that? It’s funny to imagine what it would have been back then, it must have been fucking intolerable with the god damned smoke filling up the cabin, you’d be hotboxing carbon monoxide for hours on the flight.
But you were also “kind of” ok fucking the stewardesses (fully consensually), and there was an open bar, and probably fewer seats at passengers, so you had better legroom. Probably the food was also top notch.
I personally remember that question at check in: “Smoking or non-smoking?”