Originally Posted by
exbayern
I understand that a visit to Akron may not make for good television, but is this in any way a realistic reflection of what schedules were like at the time for crew?
Pan Am didn't fly to Akron but yes, to a great extent, travel was as glamarous for the crews as it was for pax and the schedules probably do reflect to some extent what some crew members flew (admittedly I have no idea how PA managed crew scheduling, whether lines then look like lines today and whether crews bid monthly lines or individual trips - if anyone here worked for PAA at the time, it would be great to know what they did in this regard - but I am a member of the Pan Am Historical Foundation and I have read a tremendous amount about the airline as well as its schedules but nothing covered this per se).
Originally Posted by
exbayern
I have not watched the last few weeks, but how often can they go to a different exotic, exciting destination? And were crews really scheduled to go somewhere else every few days vs serving one particular route? For instance wouldn't the french speaking FA tend to be used on the Paris route?
Wouldn't French speakers at PAA have been a dime a dozen? I'm sure there were far more French speakers at PAA than the airline could possibly have used on flights to CDG (and the older airport prior to CDG). I see to recall that speaking multiple languages was a requirement at PAA but I don't know if that applied to all cabin crew.