Airport and Airport 1975

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OK, so now you have no choice but to watch "Airplane", which is the
spoof of all the "Airport" movies. It is a much better movie, and a
riot! I especially loved the "Otto" pilot with the strategically
located inflation tube for the Flight Attendent to blow into!

Oddly, Airplane's plot comes from the movie Zero Hour which itself made
from another Arthur Hailey book, Runway 08.


Say, does anyone speak jive?



Cold, got to be!

PAR minimums were lower than an ILS back in the good old days!

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OK, so now you have no choice but to watch "Airplane", which is the
spoof of all the "Airport" movies.

All of the Airport movies are funny when first watched after viewing "Airplane"

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Bob Noel
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On 19 Apr 2007 13:02:20 -0700, Dave J wrote:

I'll also say this about the generation gap. I clearly missed the days
when people dressed up to fly

I'm old enough to remember the first time I saw a guy wearing a T-shirt get
on an airplane with me.

I blame Southwest Airlines for making air travel available to the
proletariats.

:-)
--
Dallas

Dave J writes:

I'll also say this about the generation gap. I clearly missed the days
when people dressed up to fly, or when flight attendants flirted with
anybody.

I don't know that there was ever a time when flight attendants routinely
flirted with anyone, unless their employer requested it (not inconceivable in
the old days).

People dressed up because air travel was too expensive to be undertaken
routinely, and so any trip on an airplane was a special occasion. However,
during the same era, people dressed up a lot more for all sorts of occasions.
As little as forty years ago, many American women still felt a need to wear
gloves when going out.

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Gig 601XL Builder writes:

I remember when almost all of them were women that you would want to have
flirt with you.

They are the same women today.

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Dave J writes:

Ah! Maybe I'll read the book sometime. I have a feeling it'll have
more realistic detail fir aviation junkies!

It's out of print, unfortunately. I've been looking around for it for a
while. I actually read it while on a domestic leg of an overseas flight on
TWA--in first class, come to think of it. Today you'd probably be arrested
for reading it on a plane.

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OK, so now you have no choice but to watch "Airplane", which is the
spoof of all the "Airport" movies. It is a much better movie, and a
riot!

_Airplane_ is a parody of _Zero Hour_, a little known, serious movie with a
simular plot to which the producers of _Airplane_ bought the rights.

Since more people have seen _Airport_, however, many assume that _Airplane_
parodies the movie. But _Airport_ involved a crazy passenger with a bomb,
whereas _Zero Hour_ and _Airplane_ involved food poisoning.

_Airport_ was an excellent movie, although the book was even better.
Unfortunately, with so many parodies and mediocre disaster movies around, it's
hard to watch _Airport_ today without smiling.

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Mxsmanic wrote:

Gig 601XL Builder writes:

I remember when almost all of them were women that you would want to have
flirt with you.

They are the same women today.


indeed. But we (macho chauvinistic pigs) were hoping that they would have
retired by now and replaced by younger / attractive generations :-)

ok, I am ducking now,

--Sylvain

Sylvain writes:

indeed. But we (macho chauvinistic pigs) were hoping that they would have
retired by now and replaced by younger / attractive generations :-)

In the early days of aviation there were mostly young FAs because aviation was
itself too young to produce old FAs, at least in any quantity.

Now, decades later, there have been many thousands of FAs working for decades
and so the number of older FAs with substantial seniority has greatly
increased. For FAs, seniority is everything, since once one has learned to
carry out the job competently, there are no other criteria of advancement (the
job can only be done so well).

Seniority is important for pilots, too, but there are other factors. Piloting
is a job in which one learns indefinitely from experience, so that's a factor.
Also, pilots are required to retire at a fairly young age, which prevents
seniority from becoming too much of an issue.

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