50 Amazing Photos from the Golden Age of Air Travel

A girl and her father play a game of checkers.

 

Flying First Class in the 1960s.

 

 

A snack on a Scandinavian Airlines flight, 1969

 

KLM

 

KLM

 

Inside a Boeing 747

 

Iberia
Iberia

 

Iberia

 

Inside an Alaska Airlines Convair 880 M-6 in the 1960s. U.S. National Archives.

 

Travelers sit on large couches without seatbelts.

 

BA Speedbird [Heritage] Centre

 

Child passenger takes his pick of chocolate, 1960s

 

A bar in the sky.

 

KLM

 

Flight attendants for the now defunct Pacific Southwest Airlines.

 

 

A young Richard Nixon and friends enjoy a game of cards.

 

Dean Conger / Getty Images

 

KLM

 

BA Speedbird [Heritage] Centre

 

Passengers recline, 1950s. Douglas Miller / Stringer / Getty Images

 

A waiter serving a couple in the air.

 

 

Stunning inflight snacks

 

Sacha Distel performs mid-flight, 1959.

 

Southwest Airlines flight attendants in the 1970s. San Diego Air and Space Museum Archive.

 

 

The stunning interior of an early commercial airline.

 

Swissair archives

 

Kids enjoy a full-course meal.

 

Swissair archives

 

Bunkbeds for travelers to sleep in.

 

A woman enjoys caviar, salad nicoise, and a charcuterie platter.

 

Swissair archives

 

 

 

 

Swissair archives

 

 

Photo by SAS Museum CC BY 2.0

 

Photo by SAS Museum CC BY 2.0

 

Photo by SAS Museum CC BY 2.0

 

Photo by SAS Museum CC BY 2.0

 

Photo by SAS Museum CC BY 2.0

 

Photo by SAS Museum CC BY 2.0
Photo by SAS Museum CC BY 2.0

Photo by SAS Museum CC BY 2.0

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