50 Amazing Photos from the Golden Age of Air Travel

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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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