Sleep-flying

[mikea]

More: http://vintage-ads.livejournal.com/3119586.html

 

[Henning]

Damn, how much you think that flight across the Atlantic cost?

 

[kgruber]

Might as well.

The crew are going to be half asleep anyway.

 

[mikea]

Might as well.

The crew are going to be half asleep anyway.

Nah. They're wake but they're arguing about the schedule as they view their laptops and overshoot Paris.

 

[Fearless Tower]

Might as well.

The crew are going to be half asleep anyway.

Crew had their own bunks...haven't you ever seen 'High and the Mighty'?

 

[AirDC]

How did they sell tickets? Was it per person or per bed?

 

[ajstoner21]

Nah. They're wake but they're arguing about the schedule as they view their laptops and overshoot Paris.

Don't worry, when they finally get there, the control tower will be asleep.

(hope not...)

 

[denverpilot]

How did they sell tickets? Was it per person or per bed?

Means the Mile High Club is also a method of cost-sharing, if per bed. LOL!

 

[Fearless Tower]

False advertising.....not suprising considering the Frogs.

The Pan Am 314 clippers had sleeper bunks and they were flying across the Atlantic in 1939....LONG before any Connie ever flew.

 

[AggieMike88]

I'm also remembering an ad for a DC3 having sleeper berth service.

 

[Fearless Tower]

I'm also remembering an ad for a DC3 having sleeper berth service.

True....the DST variant had sleeping berths...actually IIRC, American's Curtis Condors were the first US planes to have sleeping berths, but neither the Condors or the DSTs were doing Atlantic x-ing pax flights which is what the Air France ad claims.