And yet safety has come a long, long way. The efficiency of the aircraft, route optimization and ticket prices are so much better than they were in 1970. Not to mention business routes were like flying boys clubs, when only the ‘prettiest’ stewardesses were hand-picked and they had to act flirty. Many were mistreated, by today’s workplace standards anyway. Sure, modern low cost airlines may not be glamorous but they serve a purpose. It’s easy to be more accommodating and offer a higher level of service when there were far fewer people traveling…some may lament that but many of us would never have experienced flying if it remained like it was. We all have a choice, if you want to travel like they did in 1970 then prepare to pay for first/business class or get your own jet. I’m not trying to sound argumentative but 1970 was more than 50 years ago and a lot changes- 50 years prior to that, commercial aviation didn’t exist.
We tolerate too much now. And where's the competition? it sucks.
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I lived during those times and worked for TWA at LAX. I flew regularly in those days and now I have no desire to go anywhere in a commercial airliner after the last couple of trips in recent history. Poor service, cramped seats and rude passengers are today's norm.
I really enjoy all these retro videos I have a collection of plastic see thru late 60s early 70s passenger jets PanAm United TWA and British Airways I was born in 1968 and Iam so intrigued by the these videos I can only imagine air travel was much simpler and more pleasant back then unlike all the hassles and craziness of unruly passengers of today its just 😔 sad .
Thanks so much for the upload! I have good memories of this golden days of air travel! The passengers were dressed elegantly! Everything had a touch of exclusivity! My very first flight was in 1974...and took me to Stockholm...I was 12 and I travelled alone! ✈️🇸🇪🇩🇪🇩🇰🇫🇮🇯🇵🇨🇦 🇺🇸🇹🇳🇩🇿 🇼🇫🇷🇺🇳🇴🇪🇸🏴🇨🇳🇱🇰✈️
TWA “Starstream” was the moniker for their 707s and “Royal Ambassador “ the moniker for their First Class inflight service. Flew the 707 First Class many times. To this day, the 707 still remains my favorite aircraft and will always hold a special place in my heart 👍🏻
@@waynehentley4332 - no fear about kids playing outside, great tv shows that were wholesome and actually funny, passengers on airplanes were treated like royalty vs. cattle, water was cleaner, food was healthier, no chemtrails filling the skies. However, people were repressed of their true emotions and for people of color it was much harder to live a prosperous life, including women.
The black speckles throughout this film didn't bother me at all, apart from the kitchen section from 2:15, when they all turned in to flies! A great video, thanks.
My first airplane ride was in 1975 at 7 years old to Europe in a TWA jet. We received free wing pins and TWA carry on bags. We wore our Sunday best to fly.
Great upload, thanks. Rode the moon buggies a lot but never to the plane. They had fins on the top by the time I started riding them and the extendable ramp was gone.
Dulles wasn’t very busy at first. I used to shoot landings there all the time, very little traffic. Deregulation hadn’t happened yet. Very little hub style airline scheduling. The terminal was beautiful. The mobile lounges were AWESOME. Such a shame they didn’t work out, the hub thing was pretty much incompatible with the lounges. That big United terminal in a separate building just ain’t the same.
Regarding the meal service, it seemed to me when jet aircraft came on line, having a multi-course meal served aloft, although nice, on most flights, there just wasn't enough time for it. I remember how the FAs would have to race thru it to get people fed before dishes would have to be collected prior to landing. If there was any delay such as for turbulence, it only added to the chaos. I recall a couple of times when meals weren't served when they were scheduled because time simply ran out on the crew. With jets, most domestic flights became 2 hours or less so you wouldn't starve even if your flight was airborne during mealtimes. Jet speed was good but some good things were lost in the process.
AH I was with T. W. A for 38 years.. of which the last 18 was at the St Louis Airport Ticket Counter. I was so fortunate to be with the best Airline in the World . I am doing a youtube of all of my adventures..Just pul up. ..Come Fly with Tanya on T.W.A. .enjoy
That terminal announces voice was still in use back in the early 1990's..I was told is was synthetic taped analog computer that could seamlessly broadcast anything you typed into it.
@@LoganLavery, I flew on TWA 707s a couple of times in the early 1980s, as well as TWA 727s and L1011s, Eastern 727s and L1011s, and Delta 727s and 707s
Was about the age of that boy that same year when I flew out of Dulles to London on TWA for an extended vacation, earlier before our flight, we waved my Dad off on another 707 heading west that would ultimately deliver him to Tan Shon Nhut - and another year in the "fun captial of the world"...
People had class back then and took pride in the way they looked unlike the classless Jean wearing stinky bums flying today! And there were no in flight fights either! Different type of flying people then compared to today!
When I moved to Northern Virginia in 1981 Dulles was still underutilized as it is in this video. It didn't really change until United made it a hub in the late 1980s.
I love how the baggage handler handles the bags in a careful and deliberate manner, stacking the bags neatly side by side. Today they just toss the bag on the cart and casually pile bag upon bag. 🤷♂️
I always wondered who the person was that announced the boarding 0:46-0:55. I remember hearing him in the early-mid 80s announcing the flights. Every Saturday my family and I would go to IAD for a few hours watching the planes take off/land from the observation deck. My first flight out of IAD was on Republic loved walking out to board the plane.
Darryl Fraser Die Hard 2 was supposed to be taking place at Dulles, however it wasn't filmed there. It was filmed in Hollywood in Studios and at the Tom Bradley international terminal at LAX! Nothing in Die Hard 2 looked even remotely like Dulles, which really bothered me when I first watched it! Dulles is such a uniquely designed airport with such a unique characteristic terminal that I was really disappointed when watching Die Hard 2 ! I was like "what the hell?!?!" Today - flying in and out of IAD all the time - I probably can't even watch it! It would bother me too much 🙈😂
You have to remember this is when flying used to be respectable. It's a period where you actually had to speak f****** English to work for the airlines. It's when the airlines were about the customers and not their pockets. many airlines would serve meals on domestic flights up until September 11th 2001 and that not only changed the security but airlines started cutting back to pay for these increased costs.. this is when our society had standards
Does anyone know who was behind "the voice" that announced the flights at Dulles? He was there for YEARS since it was built until the early 90s, I think.
mr2bmw they still use the mobile lounges. I used to call them the moon vehicles because they reminded me of the vehicles in the tv show Space 1999. Now the vehicles drive to the C or D terminals not directly to the plane.
@@rafaelwilks yes, but far more expensive than the 60s and 70s even adjusted for inflation. But you have a good point. Yet even coach class back in the day was something special.
This is actually our local airport! It’s quite surprising how much still remains the same, such as the interior of the main building. When I went there recently, I specifically looked for how many older jets I could find. To my surprise, I found a couple MD-10s/MD-11s in active service with FedEx and UPS! Other similarities: Airline font at the ticket booths is the same The ticket acceptors’ booths are the exact same The bus ports are similar Same Air Control tower, although I think another one was built near it.
this is when Marriott used to cater the airlines. They're the ones who came up with the concept. If you look on the catering trucks it says the logo of the Marriott corporation. They got out of food service and airline catering in the 80s and early 90s. By the late 90s their hot Shoppes restaurants were closed forever.
Yes, I was born In the early 70’s, and I remember the Marriott catering trucks everywhere. Marriott and Sky Chefs, which I think Lufthansa bought and still owns today. At TWA’s larger hubs like JFK, they actually had their own company catering facilities for all of their flights, and other airlines too. To this day, the best shrimp scampi dinner I ever ate was on a TWA Royal Ambassador flight to London from JFK, which was prepared by that catering facility. While US airlines rarely operate their own catering facilities today, there are still examples of it around the world, like Emirates in Dubai and Lufthansa in Frankfurt. Anyway, awesome video - brought back great memories.
@Z06ified Marriott in flite catering was sold to CaterAir in 1989. Marriott maintained a small stake in that company and the people who took it over were former executives of the inflight catering division. Even though it was now cater air, it still flew under the Marriott flag. That ended in 1995 when Marriott divested whatever it had left in the company and it became cater air fully. You don't have food service companies like Marriott anymore and it's sad.
Dulles (named for former Secretary of State John Foster Dulles) was dedicated by John F. Kennedy on 11/17/62. National had restrictions based on destination, including (but not limited to) all transcontinental and intercontinental flights, and on type of aircraft. I remember flying out of there a couple times as a child, in the early 60s.
Dulles (IAD) was the first airport in the world built specifically for the jet age. Until the DFW airport was built, Dulles was the largest airport in the world in terms of acreage. Although some regional jets used gates and stairways located directly in front of the observation deck and the tower, all other airliners parked on the ramp in the distance. The idea was to keep the engine noise away from the terminal. And walking distance from the check-in counter to the gates (mobile lounges) was short. The mobile lounges were designed by the same world-renowned architect who designed the terminal: Eero Saarinen. Saarinen also designed the TWA terminal ("The Bird") at JFK Airport. (The TWA terminal is now used by JetBlue.)
This announcer sounds like Mr. Rogers. "Can you say ground stop, little boy?" I flew through Dulles a few times in the 1960s and 1970s. Those mobile lounges were a pain. All they did was add an extra layer of complexity to the boarding process. And if you ran up to the gate at the last minute after the lounge had departed, tough luck. I guess the point was to park those ugly airplanes as far away from the beautiful terminal as possible. Another problem with Dulles in the early days was that people often confused "Dulles" with "Dallas." I spoke to a flight attendant who accidentally bid for a Dallas route when she thought she was bidding for Dulles. She wondered why the flight was taking so much longer!
klc317 - And treated passengers too gently. Now some passengers too are rude. Sometimes, it is difficult to say, who is more rude, some passengers or some of airlines' staff.
Note the innovative “Mobile Lounge” in this video. IAD, Washington Dullles International Airport, had a unique architectural and functional design. One large, rectangular central terminal containing adjacent rectangular departure lounges inside. Each departure lounge had a doorway connecting the terminal departure gate lounge to the docked “Mobile Lounge.” You would go to the departure gate and take a seat in the Mobile Lounge until your flight was ready to depart. The lounge itself transported you to the aircraft where you walked on a covered jet plank to the aircraft. Note at minute 11 you will see aircraft lined up one behind the other nose to tail. When the aircraft landed they would exit the runway and park on a long strip of stands parallel with the adjacent taxiway. The idea was to save aircraft fuel and improve logistic mobility. I recall landing at IAD, turning off the runway, just a short little taxi before the engines shut down. We could see the Dulles Terminal in the distance with mobile lounges and trucks coming to us.
Wow have we certainly moved backwards in the efficiency of baggage handling! ULD containers for luggage in a narrow-body, 53 years ago?! We’ve gone back to hand loading!
"Where are you going Tony Smith". I might hire that voice and call it - HAL9000 a humanoid computer, I'm thinking of making a movie called - 2001 A Space Odyssey.
I was around that boy Tony's age when i had my very first ride on a 707,it was on a Qantas 707 V-Jet .,i flew to Sydney in Australia from my homeland New Zealand.The flight took 3 hours there & 2 hours 30 mins back because of the tail wind,the food on Qantas back then was really great unlike the Qantas of today!.
Who's idea was the stupid bus from terminal to plane, idea? I got on one of those things when I was real little, and a lady on the bus said "I've never been on a plane like this".
@@dragonmeddler2152 If I had a 707, I'd have the antenna coupler put on just for looks! Once you've seen a 707 with it, one without it looks incomplete...
Specifically, this airport needs a scheduled nonstop service to Shanghai Pudong Airport. That, or Reagan (yes, the Boeing 787 Dreamliner can land there, even on a full payload and also a long-distance nonstop commercial flight).
Dulles hasn't changed much...the big busses still run and the planes still fly. But the culture that made air travel pleasant has changed. It's Hell, now.
![Worst Party Bus: The Story of the Dulles Airport Mobile Lounges [USA Bus History]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/fLtF--dfuLA/mqdefault.jpg)
The level of comfort, respect and service in those days were far better than today.
A M but only the wealthy or business guy could afford to fly. Back then if someone said they flew somewhere you assumed grandma died.
@@robertgary3561 , the mother of the boy must've been the wife of a doctor or business executive or something.
LOL and no security!!
And yet safety has come a long, long way. The efficiency of the aircraft, route optimization and ticket prices are so much better than they were in 1970. Not to mention business routes were like flying boys clubs, when only the ‘prettiest’ stewardesses were hand-picked and they had to act flirty. Many were mistreated, by today’s workplace standards anyway.
Sure, modern low cost airlines may not be glamorous but they serve a purpose. It’s easy to be more accommodating and offer a higher level of service when there were far fewer people traveling…some may lament that but many of us would never have experienced flying if it remained like it was. We all have a choice, if you want to travel like they did in 1970 then prepare to pay for first/business class or get your own jet. I’m not trying to sound argumentative but 1970 was more than 50 years ago and a lot changes- 50 years prior to that, commercial aviation didn’t exist.
@@RoadCone411 No, it was just better back then.
These videos make me nostalgic for a time I didn't even live in.
We tolerate too much now. And where's the competition? it sucks.
I lived during those times and worked for TWA at LAX. I flew regularly in those days and now I have no desire to go anywhere in a commercial airliner after the last couple of trips in recent history. Poor service, cramped seats and rude passengers are today's norm.
I would go back to those days in a heartbeat. Thanks for the memories.
If we could go faster than a heart beat that would ok too!
You can experience that now at Emirates!
I was born in 1970 and videos such as this really show how things have changed. Great video, thank you!
multiculturalism is great isn't it!
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I really enjoy all these retro videos I have a collection of plastic see thru late 60s early 70s passenger jets PanAm United TWA and British Airways I was born in 1968 and Iam so intrigued by the these videos I can only imagine air travel was much simpler and more pleasant back then unlike all the hassles and craziness of unruly passengers of today its just 😔 sad .
I used to love spotting at Dulles before the midfield terminals were built. The unobstructed view was absolutely incredible.
True golden age of air travel. I am glad I got to experience it as a child. Really broadened my horizons
The golden age of air travel is available at Emirates, now better thsn ever.
Thanks so much for the upload! I have good memories of this golden days of air travel! The passengers were dressed elegantly! Everything had a touch of exclusivity! My very first flight was in 1974...and took me to Stockholm...I was 12 and I travelled alone! ✈️🇸🇪🇩🇪🇩🇰🇫🇮🇯🇵🇨🇦 🇺🇸🇹🇳🇩🇿 🇼🇫🇷🇺🇳🇴🇪🇸🏴🇨🇳🇱🇰✈️
A classic video. Thanks for sharing this, the magic of the 707. I feel privileged to be able to remember those days.
TWA “Starstream” was the moniker for their 707s and “Royal Ambassador “ the moniker for their First Class inflight service. Flew the 707 First Class many times. To this day, the 707 still remains my favorite aircraft and will always hold a special place in my heart 👍🏻
remember the B-727 Star of Berlin???
Yes. And I miss the days of 727s and L1011s too, and airlines no longer around like TWA, Eastern, and Pan-Am
@@alvexok5523 They are not around due to poor management.
Me too. Used to work at JFK for TWA.
The 707s still fly over my house everyday, now configured as military KC-35s as refueling planes in and out of MacDill AFB.
Growing up in the 70s was cool,,
Oh yes it was! I was 10 in 1970
@@rosemaryangela1825 way better than now
What was cool about it?🤔🤔🤔
@@waynehentley4332 - no fear about kids playing outside, great tv shows that were wholesome and actually funny, passengers on airplanes were treated like royalty vs. cattle, water was cleaner, food was healthier, no chemtrails filling the skies. However, people were repressed of their true emotions and for people of color it was much harder to live a prosperous life, including women.
I was a teen in the 70s!
What a great era! My Gosh... no words to describe my feeling now!
The black speckles throughout this film didn't bother me at all, apart from the kitchen section from 2:15, when they all turned in to flies! A great video, thanks.
Flew out of Dulles in 1972 on a TWA 707 to San Francisco on way to live in Australia. Was in 2nd grade.
The Stewardesses looked so dainty and classy walking up to the plane.
"Where are you going Tony Smith?" ~ Creeeeeeepppppy af.
Scott Cantrell he sounds like he’s narrating a video for a bunch of 5 year olds.
This was an educational film for kids.
Brings back lots of memories. My dad was a mobile lounge operator for many years.
MsFiregal when did he retire?
This brought back vivid memories of watching this very same video (with "Ripples" intro and outro) when I was in Kindergarten in the mid-1970s.
NOTICE THE BEAUTIFUL LIVERY OF TWA AND THE DISTINCTIVE DESIGN OF THE BOEING 707----AWESOME
Thank you putting these on, it does bromg back many pleasant days
That young fellow could be me, on annual journeys from IAD to LAX in the late 60's and early 70's.
Wow! I like those old footage plane videos, they are like time machines that are made from lcd screens.
No security of any kind really makes you look back in envy
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Yeah no Muslims
No security of any kind really makes you truly grateful that hijackings aren't a thing anymore.
Thanks for posting. this airport isn't far from me...
Ahhh these old good days ...
My first airplane ride was in 1975 at 7 years old to Europe in a TWA jet. We received free wing pins and TWA carry on bags. We wore our Sunday best to fly.
totally loving the DC metro area airports. keep em comming
My Dad was there. He worked the ramp for TWA at Dulles in the 70’s, then in the 80’s switched to BWI.
God I miss TWA
eyescrynot - Icahn stripped it clean, I worked for the company for 4 years, before moving on
Up Up And Away Fly TWA ! 👍
@@Bikerbug2020 ICAHN = S.O.B
Same here. I also miss when they used to serve food in coach.
@@turkey0165 I remember the commercial .I was 10 years old the time.
Great upload, thanks. Rode the moon buggies a lot but never to the plane. They had fins on the top by the time I started riding them and the extendable ramp was gone.
This was back when people had pride, discipline, and self respect.
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Dulles wasn’t very busy at first. I used to shoot landings there all the time, very little traffic. Deregulation hadn’t happened yet. Very little hub style airline scheduling. The terminal was beautiful. The mobile lounges were AWESOME. Such a shame they didn’t work out, the hub thing was pretty much incompatible with the lounges. That big United terminal in a separate building just ain’t the same.
Yes, let’s ignore the existence of the Flight Engineer. He’s only the most critical member of the flight deck on 707s
Back when flying was an adventure.
TODAY ITS A NIGHTMARETO FLY
Flying First Class at Emirates is an adventure
@@michaeltalbott4496 on the contrary - the safety levels of that era, which is the most important thing, is the real nightmare.
was a great source of comfort when the non-smoking sign went off -- and everyone would light up and relax !!!!
Flew on a TWA 707 in 1969. I was 10. Beautiful plane!😊...and yes we put on our best clothes too!
Regarding the meal service, it seemed to me when jet aircraft came on line, having a multi-course meal served aloft, although nice, on most flights, there just wasn't enough time for it. I remember how the FAs would have to race thru it to get people fed before dishes would have to be collected prior to landing. If there was any delay such as for turbulence, it only added to the chaos. I recall a couple of times when meals weren't served when they were scheduled because time simply ran out on the crew. With jets, most domestic flights became 2 hours or less so you wouldn't starve even if your flight was airborne during mealtimes. Jet speed was good but some good things were lost in the process.
AH I was with T. W. A
for 38 years.. of which the last 18 was at the St
Louis Airport Ticket Counter. I was so fortunate to be with the best Airline in the World . I am doing a youtube of all of my adventures..Just pul up. ..Come Fly with Tanya on T.W.A.
.enjoy
the narrator's english is perfect!
That terminal announces voice was still in use back in the early 1990's..I was told is was synthetic taped analog computer that could seamlessly broadcast anything you typed into it.
Look how nicely people dressed back then.
I remember all that when I worked there back in the early 80's
Boeing 707 ... The Cadillac of Jets
The narrator's voice reminds me of HAL 9000's in "2001 a space odyssey"
with a hint of Vincent Price.
lol
Mr Rodgers?
Donald Rumsfeld?
Wow, that’s an era truly ‘gone with the wind.’
I only flew on one 707 in my life - 1974, TWA. And that vacation included my first 747 and L-1011.
Ha, mine was an American 707 in Jan '73. We flew a United 747B-200 a few days earlier. I did fly in a Qantas 707 a couple years later AKL-SYD
@@LoganLavery, I flew on TWA 707s a couple of times in the early 1980s, as well as TWA 727s and L1011s, Eastern 727s and L1011s, and Delta 727s and 707s
Was about the age of that boy that same year when I flew out of Dulles to London on TWA for an extended vacation, earlier before our flight, we waved my Dad off on another 707 heading west that would ultimately deliver him to Tan Shon Nhut - and another year in the "fun captial of the world"...
That’s when flying was a pleasure !
Flying is still a pleasure at Emirates.
Back when people actually suited up just to get on a plane.
lol
They would also dress up to go on the train or ship as well. The world of travel has lost something over the years.
All dressed smart not like trash
To be fair, people back in the day would suit up to go take a poop test...
People had class back then and took pride in the way they looked unlike the classless Jean wearing stinky bums flying today! And there were no in flight fights either! Different type of flying people then compared to today!
Hot meals, not dried out pretzels. No TSA groping.
When I moved to Northern Virginia in 1981 Dulles was still underutilized as it is in this video. It didn't really change until United made it a hub in the late 1980s.
I walked through the 707 that was Air Force One for President Reagan at the Reagan Museum. I was surprised how small it was.
I love how the baggage handler handles the bags in a careful and deliberate manner, stacking the bags neatly side by side. Today they just toss the bag on the cart and casually pile bag upon bag. 🤷♂️
I had one of those suitcases! TWA sold the excess ones to employees every year.
Ann Bowen - It is a news to me.
I always wondered who the person was that announced the boarding 0:46-0:55. I remember hearing him in the early-mid 80s announcing the flights. Every Saturday my family and I would go to IAD for a few hours watching the planes take off/land from the observation deck. My first flight out of IAD was on Republic loved walking out to board the plane.
I remember those Ripples programs form grade school.
Or "from" even............
Back when flying used to be an enjoyable activity and respectable. 😁😁😁
Very cool!
3 of the Airport movies were filmed at Dulles. Airport 1975, Airport '77 and The Concorde: Airport '79
Leath Myatt The first three were great. The fourth turned comical.
Don't forget Die Hard 2.
Leath Myatt Don’t forget ‘Seven Days in May.’
Darryl Fraser Die Hard 2 was supposed to be taking place at Dulles, however it wasn't filmed there. It was filmed in Hollywood in Studios and at the Tom Bradley international terminal at LAX! Nothing in Die Hard 2 looked even remotely like Dulles, which really bothered me when I first watched it! Dulles is such a uniquely designed airport with such a unique characteristic terminal that I was really disappointed when watching Die Hard 2 ! I was like "what the hell?!?!" Today - flying in and out of IAD all the time - I probably can't even watch it! It would bother me too much 🙈😂
Leath Myatt I watched all the movies in the90s in an isolated place in Africa it was in frensh
Airport kitchen???? What's that? Is that where they keep the little bags of pretzels?
Yes and the peanuts. lol
You have to remember this is when flying used to be respectable. It's a period where you actually had to speak f****** English to work for the airlines. It's when the airlines were about the customers and not their pockets. many airlines would serve meals on domestic flights up until September 11th 2001 and that not only changed the security but airlines started cutting back to pay for these increased costs.. this is when our society had standards
@@mannyistheman2221 Amen to that.
You have to love those old cockpits, with all those steam/analogue gauges, these days all the cockpits are glass/digital.
4:17 Showing where a passenger will be seated denoted by a smiley face. I bet those were cleaned after each flight.
all of These memories…..
I love this channel.
If I were Tony and I heard this guy for real, I'd run like hell...
I remember those days
This was a “School film” hence the “Mr Rogers” Type narration.
More like "Mr Creeper"
Does anyone know who was behind "the voice" that announced the flights at Dulles? He was there for YEARS since it was built until the early 90s, I think.
Have a nice flight Tony Smith and keep your feet off the seats.
IAD still looks the same as in 1970!
mr2bmw they still use the mobile lounges. I used to call them the moon vehicles because they reminded me of the vehicles in the tv show Space 1999. Now the vehicles drive to the C or D terminals not directly to the plane.
mr2bmw the main terminal does yes but the people movers are long gone
They msg use them on occasion but ever since they build the underground tram system and the new terminals not as much
A brief shot of the FE, but no mention of him that I recall.
IAD still has the shuttle mobiles that go between concourse A and concourse D
Tony Smith is 50 now!
Tony is now 51, spending life in prison because he killed the narrator.
We were treated like kings and flying was even more special than the destination
Emirates First Class is so good it totally puts the whole golden age of flying to shame!
@@rafaelwilks yes, but far more expensive than the 60s and 70s even adjusted for inflation. But you have a good point. Yet even coach class back in the day was something special.
This is actually our local airport! It’s quite surprising how much still remains the same, such as the interior of the main building. When I went there recently, I specifically looked for how many older jets I could find. To my surprise, I found a couple MD-10s/MD-11s in active service with FedEx and UPS!
Other similarities:
Airline font at the ticket booths is the same
The ticket acceptors’ booths are the exact same
The bus ports are similar
Same Air Control tower, although I think another one was built near it.
this is when Marriott used to cater the airlines. They're the ones who came up with the concept. If you look on the catering trucks it says the logo of the Marriott corporation. They got out of food service and airline catering in the 80s and early 90s. By the late 90s their hot Shoppes restaurants were closed forever.
Yes, I was born In the early 70’s, and I remember the Marriott catering trucks everywhere. Marriott and Sky Chefs, which I think Lufthansa bought and still owns today. At TWA’s larger hubs like JFK, they actually had their own company catering facilities for all of their flights, and other airlines too. To this day, the best shrimp scampi dinner I ever ate was on a TWA Royal Ambassador flight to London from JFK, which was prepared by that catering facility.
While US airlines rarely operate their own catering facilities today, there are still examples of it around the world, like Emirates in Dubai and Lufthansa in Frankfurt.
Anyway, awesome video - brought back great memories.
@Z06ified Marriott in flite catering was sold to CaterAir in 1989. Marriott maintained a small stake in that company and the people who took it over were former executives of the inflight catering division. Even though it was now cater air, it still flew under the Marriott flag. That ended in 1995 when Marriott divested whatever it had left in the company and it became cater air fully. You don't have food service companies like Marriott anymore and it's sad.
Interesting to see that Dulles didn't have jetways in 1970. When were they installed?
Late 80’s
Dulles (named for former Secretary of State John Foster Dulles) was dedicated by John F. Kennedy on 11/17/62. National had restrictions based on destination, including (but not limited to) all transcontinental and intercontinental flights, and on type of aircraft. I remember flying out of there a couple times as a child, in the early 60s.
Dulles (IAD) was the first airport in the world built specifically for the jet age. Until the DFW airport was built, Dulles was the largest airport in the world in terms of acreage. Although some regional jets used gates and stairways located directly in front of the observation deck and the tower, all other airliners parked on the ramp in the distance. The idea was to keep the engine noise away from the terminal. And walking distance from the check-in counter to the gates (mobile lounges) was short. The mobile lounges were designed by the same world-renowned architect who designed the terminal: Eero Saarinen. Saarinen also designed the TWA terminal ("The Bird") at JFK Airport. (The TWA terminal is now used by JetBlue.)
Why I was born at 90's?
This announcer sounds like Mr. Rogers. "Can you say ground stop, little boy?" I flew through Dulles a few times in the 1960s and 1970s. Those mobile lounges were a pain. All they did was add an extra layer of complexity to the boarding process. And if you ran up to the gate at the last minute after the lounge had departed, tough luck. I guess the point was to park those ugly airplanes as far away from the beautiful terminal as possible. Another problem with Dulles in the early days was that people often confused "Dulles" with "Dallas." I spoke to a flight attendant who accidentally bid for a Dallas route when she thought she was bidding for Dulles. She wondered why the flight was taking so much longer!
I miss those sounds
Look how gently the luggage was treated back then....lol
klc317 - And treated passengers too gently. Now some passengers too are rude.
Sometimes, it is difficult to say, who is more rude, some passengers or some of airlines' staff.
Note the innovative “Mobile Lounge” in this video. IAD, Washington Dullles International Airport, had a unique architectural and functional design. One large, rectangular central terminal containing adjacent rectangular departure lounges inside. Each departure lounge had a doorway connecting the terminal departure gate lounge to the docked “Mobile Lounge.” You would go to the departure gate and take a seat in the Mobile Lounge until your flight was ready to depart. The lounge itself transported you to the aircraft where you walked on a covered jet plank to the aircraft.
Note at minute 11 you will see aircraft lined up one behind the other nose to tail. When the aircraft landed they would exit the runway and park on a long strip of stands parallel with the adjacent taxiway. The idea was to save aircraft fuel and improve logistic mobility. I recall landing at IAD, turning off the runway, just a short little taxi before the engines shut down. We could see the Dulles Terminal in the distance with mobile lounges and trucks coming to us.
Is this an educational video for children in 1970?
Wow , I didn’t know they already had automatic doors back in 1970.
Just didn't have cell phones and desk-top/laptop computers. Other than that it wasn't all that different, other than how crude people have become.
Ozark flew there from Champaign and Peoria
Trans Global Golden Argosy 707 to Rome now boarding.
They're still using those buses for transfer between terminals?
Wow have we certainly moved backwards in the efficiency of baggage handling! ULD containers for luggage in a narrow-body, 53 years ago?! We’ve gone back to hand loading!
Where is Tony Smith nowadays?
The mobile lounges were a horrible idea
Ahhh...the 70s and 80s. When flying was a pleasure and you were treated like royalty. Now? Puleeeze!
"Where are you going Tony Smith". I might hire that voice and call it - HAL9000 a humanoid computer, I'm thinking of making a movie called - 2001 A Space Odyssey.
This film was definitely narrated by Mr. Creepy.
I was around that boy Tony's age when i had my very first ride on a 707,it was on a Qantas 707 V-Jet .,i flew to Sydney in Australia from my homeland New Zealand.The flight took 3 hours there & 2 hours 30 mins back because of the tail wind,the food on Qantas back then was really great unlike the Qantas of today!.
There are A LOT of 737s still flying
Who's idea was the stupid bus from terminal to plane, idea? I got on one of those things when I was real little, and a lady on the bus said "I've never been on a plane like this".
Lol
I remember these times well. It’s tragic how far our civilization has declined since then…
55 people?? That's why fares were so high!😊😊
a 707 without a tail antenna is less 707
The tail-mounted Univac HF radio antenna coupler was installed mostly on 707-320s used in international and trans oceanic routes.
@@dragonmeddler2152 If I had a 707, I'd have the antenna coupler put on just for looks! Once you've seen a 707 with it, one without it looks incomplete...
Specifically, this airport needs a scheduled nonstop service to Shanghai Pudong Airport. That, or Reagan (yes, the Boeing 787 Dreamliner can land there, even on a full payload and also a long-distance nonstop commercial flight).
Dulles hasn't changed much...the big busses still run and the planes still fly.
But the culture that made air travel pleasant has changed. It's Hell, now.