I was looking at a few pictures on the net from the 'golden age' of First Class flying (courtesy of the Daily Mail no less!). I wonder if they really were so glamorous as the photos suggest. Anyone care to share any memories from those times?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/ar...-40-years.html

One thing that seems apparent to me is that passengers were much more sociable in those days, which would be very difficult nowadays with everyone closed off in their little private compartments. The Fifties and Sixties must have been a great time for networking during a flight!

Another interesting thing, for someone like me who has never experienced it, was that smoking was permitted during the flights. I can imagine it was a very difficult time for smokers when they had to stop, but does anybody know when British Airways banned smoking on their flights?


British Airways photograph