Those were indeed "the days".
My Father-in-Law was a 747 SCSO in the late seventies/early eighties. Life was good. We often dined on Smoked Salmon and a Fillet Tail - perhaps a little Caviar, accompanied by some excellent beverages, when he returned from a three week Asian/Australia/NZ trip.
From the conversations with various management that visited the house for dinner from time to time, it seemed then, that everyone in the company, from top to bottom, pulled together to a) enjoy themselves and b) deliver a good product to the customer.
Or maybe I'm looking through the proverbial tinted spec's....