The BBC should hit back with a new series BOAC!
Featuring stewards straight off the transatlantic liners who had to wear long sleeve shirts to hide the tatoos.
A (real life) steward who would enter the party room and then swing out of the window hanging on to the curtains.
The 'A' ladies who had been to Cheltenham ladies college and thought the whole thing was a worldwide cocktail party.
Dashing ex WW2 pilots with rows of medal ribbons and good sets of whiskers.
A famous Captain who insisted on being called Captain *surname* Sir and woe betide you if you just called him Captain or Sir. He had to take his suitcase on board every sector and stow it on the flight deck as it had a habit of 'falling under the wheels' of baggage trollies and trucks on the tarmac!
Room parties fuelled by alcohol served from all types of container except the one they were sold in.
Jolly japes in hotel rooms such as the one in Moscow which resulted in a chandelier crashing to the floor in the room below.
Round the world trips out west back east which resulted in the whole crew having the flight number , 591, tattooed on their bums.
Cost concious cabin crew reputedly frying eggs on up turned travelling irons and walking 10 blocks to save 25 cents on a breakfast in New York.
Brand new stewardesses walking around a VC10 kicking the tyres on instructions from the Captain as part of their departure checks.
But hey ho Pan Am was much more glamorous
