This article has some comments on the show, from a Pan Am pilot and stewardess who have been together since 1969.
Question: What do you like about the TV show?
Jan: I especially like seeing the large old Pan Am logo and the interior set of the 707 jets. It's more or less correct. The show is set five years into the beginning of the jet age for commercial airlines.
Q: What's hokey about the show?
John: They spend way too much time on the different exotic layovers of the same crew. That would never have happened. The captain also looks like he's 28 years old; in real life our captains were all 45 or older. We had to work our way up. Captains in their 20s were unheard of.
Jan: In those days, Pan Am did not fly domestically - there were regulations - and those eight-hour trips overseas were hard work! We (the stewardesses) were so tired we would just fall into bed. And there's no way the same crew would fly to Paris, Rio, Hong Kong. Nobody flew to three continents that way.