

Standard Digital includes access to a wealth of global news, analysis and expert opinion. The original Key West headquarters still stands at 301 Whitehead street and is now home to First Flight Island Restaurant and Brewery.During your trial you will have complete digital access to FT.com with everything in both of our Standard Digital and Premium Digital packages. Pan Am’s Art Deco Marine Seabase at Dinner Key is now Miami City Hall. The company had been planning to move its headquarters to Miami in a failed effort to save itself by concentrating on service to Latin America when it was shut down. During most of the jet era, Pan Am’s flagship terminal was at JFK Airport in New York. It was founded in 1927 as a scheduled airmail and passenger service operating between Key West, Florida, and Havana.

Pan American World Airways was the principal and largest international air carrier of the United States from 1927 until its collapse on Dec.

"Come Fly the World: The Jet-Age Story of the Women of Pan Am" by Julia Cooke.

So grab "Come Fly the World" and buckle in. Then there’s the trip back to the years 1965 to 1975: the crazy music, the wild clothes, and the lawsuits brought to give women the right to get a credit card, hold a job while married and work while pregnant.īe aware that there’s no coffee, tea or me? in this book instead, it’s “Mad Men” meets a glass ceiling and destroys it. In addition to those anecdotes, most of Cooke’s subjects seized adventure and cheap off-duty travel, which also gives this book a hint of travelogue but with less romance and more practicality. On one hand, Cooke tells the tales of Lynne, Karen, Clare, Tori and Hazel, why they decided to become stewardesses (a word that fits the time frame) and what their experiences were on the job. Known as "The 747 Look," the uniforms were offered in "Superjet Blue" and "Galaxy Gold." Evan-Picone designed a line of attire to commemorate Pan Am’s newest aircraft.
