Given recent problems, it’s no wonder that many travelers have become nostalgic for the so-called “golden age” of air travel in the United States. But airline nostalgia can be tricky, and ...

The airline reportedly projected that the first commercial flight to the moon would take off by 2000. However, after 1971, NEH said Pan Am stopped taking reservations "due to administrative and ...

If you took an American Airlines flight in the 1960s, you’d be wined and dined from the Coach-class “Royal Coachman” menu. Your meal began with the beef consommé and proceeded to sautéed ...

Scott Kirby, CEO of United Airlines, praised Kelly Ortberg in a post on LinkedIn. United flies more Boeing planes than any ...

But currently, air traffic controllers have to use a radar point-and-shoot system from the 1960s. “The screens look like something out of the 1960s and ‘70s,” Bastian said.

Middle East Airlines has managed to fly through regional and civil wars since the 1960s. And it is still in the skies ... We are a commercial airline,” Mr. Aziz, a former MEA captain, told The ...

An airline trip from New York to London that could take up to 15 hours in the early 1950s could be made in less than seven hours by the early 1960s. But airline nostalgia can be tricky, and ...

Long before the days of Elon Musk and SpaceX, a now-defunct airline reserved over 93,000 spots for passengers itching to travel from the Earth to the Moon. Between 1968 and 1971, ...

But airline nostalgia can be tricky, and “golden ages” are seldom as idyllic as they seem. Until the introduction of jets in 1958, most of the nation’s commercial planes were propeller ...

Longing for the ‘golden age’ of air travel? Be careful what you wish for ...

By Janet Bednarek Long lines at security checkpoints, tiny plastic cups of soda, small bags of pretzels, planes filled to capacity, fees attached to every amenity — all reflect the realities of ...