Originally Posted by
galaxy flyer
I had the good fortune to be coached forty-five plus years by senior TW and PA captains. The happy result of growing up and learning to fly in Fairfield County, CT.
I don't believe I ever met an original Pan Am pilot without a college degree. Also, of the folks hired prior to 1987, only one I knew had a non-military background. Pan Am even required a four-year college degree for its flight attendants until they started hiring B-scalers in the late 1980's.
The two big clubs at Pan Am were Yale and the Naval Academy. In the 1980's Pan Am merged National Airlines and a commuter airline named Ransome onto their pilot seniority list. The rather patrician Pan Am pilots looked down their noses at the other pilots because they came to dinner without wearing their school ties.
