Ah, the good old days .......
Accident (and fatality) rates 10 times or more what they are nowadays.
Half the fleet never made it to normal end of service before being written off.
Getting somewhere long-haul needed umpteen stops.
Long-term crews tended to deafness in later life.
Very little competition.
Very thin nonstop network compared to today.
Fare London to Australia about 6-12 months average pay.
Even in deveoped countries most had never been in an aircraft.
Airline piloting numbers in the 1950s about 5% of nowadays.