I remember we used to snigger a bit at how stuck-up some of the senior BOAC Captains were - special cars at the aircraft steps and no crew busses for them, unlike most of the other airlines!
Snigger you might, but they kept the standards up, and now you rightly remark how they are slipping.
As a new co-pilot I was "weaned" on the North Atlantic Barons - as we called them - i.e. those who stayed on the North Atlantic Routes to get their $10 a day subsistence allowance in New York ( covered Breakast, lunch and dinner,that did !)rather then spend their own money down the Eastern Routes, where hotel Full Board was paid for, and no cash allowance e.g. no "beer money".
We DON'T use Christian names on the flight deck, I was once admonished - I had to call him Sir! and he called me Mr. and I was his co-pilot !
Good Old Days.