Allegheny Airlines film Restored: What was Airline Travel Like in the late 1960's? (IBM 360 US Air)
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- Опубликовано: 26 сен 2024
- Airlines, Airports and Air Travel: Vintage Allegheny Airlines film restored. This film provides an excellent overview of what typical airline travel was like in the late 1960’s and early 1970’s. Serious attention was given to passenger comfort, good food, excellent service, polite and highly trained stewardesses (flight attendants), pilots, baggage handling crews, airport staff and flight controllers. Allegheny at this time used the IBM/360 based computerized ticket reservation system along with many other airlines. This film will give you a flavor of the past. If you were lucky to fly before 1975, you many remember many of these images. Hope you enjoy this lively journey back into the earlier days of air travel! (Uploaded by Computer History Archives Project for educational and historical review and comment.)
Mergers and Name Changes: Allegheny Airlines was an American airline that operated out of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, from 1952 to 1979 with routes primarily located in the eastern U.S. It changed its name to USAir on October 28, 1979. In 1997, it rebranded itself as US Airways. In 2013, American Airlines and US Airways merged creating the largest airline in the world.
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Wow, love this video! I go back to the Lake Central Airlines days, early 60's, out of my home airport, EVV. I first flew Allegheny out of EVV to IND on a DC-9-30 in August of 1974. I flew them to PIT, LGA, IND, and BWI. They were a great airline! I worked as a travel agent prior to my teaching career after deregulation. My how the technology has changed! So neat to see those old computers, back then they were top of the line. I still remember the name, phone, OSI, and form of payment fields while building PNR's (passenger name records) to make a reservation. I so loved that job, we truly gave professional service every day, I still miss it to this day!
Hi @demartin5366, Thanks very much for your feedback and experience with the Allegheny Airlines. Thanks for remembering "OSI" and "PNR" too! ~ Victor at CHAP
Thank you for Flyn AGONY AIRLINES
Allegheny airlines nickname at the time was Agony airlines and of course TWA stood for Try Walking Again.
I was 12 when i ever first flew on Allegheny,,MDT-BRADFORD -ERIE -CLE-DTW,,,,,all on same plane , CONVAIR 580,,and what a ride,loved it
this was a completely satisfying video thanks
Hi BGB thabun, thank you, very glad you enjoyed it!
Its the fares....and not a TSA agent, metal detector or mile long security line in sight! Those were the days....
From this to dragging people down the aisle, we have come a long way
This was about the time that Allegheny Airlines had those two crashes at Bradford Regional Airport
.. a sad event...
We can emulate mainframe computers using software like Hercules and the TK4 os distribution which is from this era. I wonder if any of the software that companies like this still exists anywhere for us to play with and explore today....
When I was at college, my computer science lecturer was an original sixties programmer. Memory cost a bomb back then so they realised storing 1967 as 67 saved a huge amount of basically money. He said "no one will be using this in the year 2000" and laughed. Patches upon patches upon patches... Then you get the Y2K bug !!! True story !!!
Sorry that's totally irrelevant. I've just woken up. Apologies
@@molegripeu no it isn't. I started using four digits for year, with IBM programming (RPG2) in the 80's. I knew it would change soon, in a few years and software would be in use.
I believe that the reservation system used would have been PARS, written by IBM. It consisted of a real time operating system called ACP, and application programs. These would have been written in S/360 Assembler, in 2KB segments. Whether anything still exists of it iI don't know.
@@Stuart-AJC great.
flew on an Agony BAC one eleven back in the day, it was wonderful !
Back when "Customer Service" was "Customer Service"
Now it's India Service and China parts. 😂 Ps. Or press "a number" 5 times and wait half an hour. 😢
I work in customer service and there are days that I hate the bloody customers
Well people paid a lot more for that service. Now bus fares get you bus service.
Man, has the world changed. The computers... ash trays at every desk... the repeated references to men/Man...the mini skirts... cheap ticket prices...the great DC-9.
@chillybilly
U are right bill
The reference to.a man's world went.out when men became effeminate and at the beck and call of women's fib
It's been a.while since men have visited this country
And it's quite doubtful they will not be around again-
for fear of perhaps infuriating wo(men) or maybe not kowtowing enough to the negro..who's been given his measure of the pie in a great degree through through 1 in 3 hiring policies and more
The Aladdin Genie trays!
I remember flying round trip on, what must have been, a Convair 340 from Newark to Toronto when I was a young kid.
Ah good times an ashtray at every desk.
Beautiful airline commercial
Well, in the old days, when even the airlines were loved. Piedmont - Allegheny - USAir - American Airlines. Getting bigger and busier. And less loved by the customers and general population. Now I need to arrive at the check-in 1, 2 or even 3 hours before departure. I always remember the time when I was sent to a service call agreed with the customer just one hour, 15 minutes before the selected (from OAG book - Official Airline Guide) flight. I collected my essentials at work and started driving with one hour 5 minutes left, dropped by my home and picked the rest of my travel needs and continued to the airport, parked, got to the shuttle bus. Then I picked my ticket (at the counter) that our travel agent had arranged and ran to the gate. When I got to my seat, there was one generous minute before the door was closed and we started pulling out. Unbelievable? You bet. My regular morning drive from home to work was 20 minutes, if I was on the road just before the rush hour and over 30 minutes if I left a little later.
Hi Pellervo, amazing how things have changed. "OAG" Official Airline Guide, sounds interesting. How often was that published? Just wondering. ~ Victor
@@ComputerHistoryArchivesProject I worked for the UK equivalent of OAG, called ABC. ABC bought OAG in the mid-1990s, and strangely, the merged company was called OAG not ABC. The book was printed monthly, I believe, and was still being produced in some forms when I left five years ago.
@@ComputerHistoryArchivesProject The OAG was published for each period that the flight schedules were fixed. I don't recall if they were quarterly, 3 times per year or just twice. Anyway, it was a magnificent, 2 inches thick book with pretty fine print. You figured out the system of individual flights - weekly, weekdays or weekends - and your connections. Then you could see your ticket price. Yes, indeed the prices were included/fixed and not manipulated by some computer algorithm.
Hi Pellervo, thank you very much for filling that info about the OAG. It was not something I was aware of, but see how it must have quite useful and valuable at the time. ~Victor
stuartajc
stuartajc , Fascinating, thank you!
honestly never heard of this airline, but guess they never came about our part of the world. But nothing says class like plastic TV trays :D
Ah, yes. The All-Agony air system!
a punny name...
This would have been in the early 1970s; not late 1960s. In a couple of clips, you show a BAC 1-11 jet & we inherited those from our merger with Mohawk in 1972.
I appreciate the film transfer, but why was some of the audio replaced with modern jazz music?
This is usually due to copyright claims.
WatchingDude, yes, you are completely correct. : )
@@ComputerHistoryArchivesProject That should be noted in the description moving forward.
Jim, good suggestion. Thanks!
0:28 thru 0:46 Computer workdesks with built-in ashtrays ??
Considering 75% of the population of the United States smoked at that time,it’s really not so strange. 🤷♂️
I first saw this video in 1979 and thought those girls at the end could not possibly be that close as to walk arm-in-arm... But beginning in 2012 to 2015, I went to Private Jet Initial and Recurrent and had the exact same experience with two stunning classmates on the way back to our base cities. What is seen here from 16:07 to 16:50, became Real. I was a Man with two Gorgeous Women linked arm-in-arm as we walked as an unlikely group who shared an accomplishment.
Gu Fwiefw 75605, interesting bit of history. Thanks very much!
How’s life?.super!grogeous -guy.
More like the 70's.
People flew with class back then.; You wore your "Sunday best" and nary a tribal person was to be found.
Was Fanjet a generic term or was it trademarked? Anyone know?
Generic, it's just another way to say turbofan.
Anyone catch the model number of those alternate IBM 2260 terminals with the two extra rows of push-buttons?
No, I was too busy looking at those mint condition DC9-10 series airliners!
Has CHAP come across a film by IBM or the FAA about the monster IBM 9020 computers which were employed in FAA Air Route Traffic Control Centers from the late Sixties until 1989?
Hi Dale, that is a great question. Films about the IBM 9020's used in the Air Route Traffic Control Centers would be a great find! We are always looking! Finding good quality vintage computer films in good condition (not turned to vinegar) is an ongoing challenge. There are many good films in museum archives and corporate tape vaults, but it is usually a rare treat to find these in the open market at a reasonable cost. Still, it is all part of the hunt. The 9020's are near the top of our want list of video material to locate. Thanks for voicing your interest. We appreciate the reminders. ~ VK
Would love to see some vintage ATC films as described above as well… love the content and happy hunting !
I really appreciate the look back. My first flight would've been around 1973, so just a few years after the era in the film.
I guess I'd forgotten the totally accepted sexism of the times ("our girls" and makeup lessons in _hostess_ school?!?), but I did notice that they had at least some non-white representation among the ladies. The flight deck was still as white as snow, so I guess that was progressive as things got back in the day...
Wow, in 1973 I did not even exist
that's not sexism...
⌨️ Thank you
@10:58 "Strange" or alien?
@15:43 Her again.
Back when the US was civilized.
Agony Airlines
Well, they are long gone now, aren't they? No more pain. : )
Ye to suru me hi aankh mar Rahi hai
Google translate says: "It's eye-catching from the very beginning." ~~
Hi Rajesh, Thank you very much! Glad you enjoyed it. ~ Charles, CHAP
Was not in a constant speed like today commercials that we can't see, what is going on and playing with emotions (today ads) in a bad way.
0:32 - Wow the built in ashtrays at the workstations.
75% of the US population smoked in the 1960’s . There’s really nothing significant about ash trays in work stations 🤷♂️
I could have swore that I heard "7 million dollar nerd center".
Agony Air! That's what people called it, probably unfairly.
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