swissdivine The series is full of glamour and trumps with a very good cinematography and good special effects. It shows an ideal world of 1960's air travel that is almost to shiny and too clean. The special effects and the recreation of the cabin are done well. One of the most obvious flaws is that anyone who has ever flown on a 707 or similar plane would know that the sound of the jet engines was much louder inside the cabin and of course there would have been more turbulence or movements of the plane in real life. Still, the service, particularly in economy call, is portrayed accurately and puts to shame the service offered today. The same goes for the personal space afforded to people in economy class. However, despite some inaccuracies it is very well done and it has to be acknowledged that it is a marvellous attempt to recreate the atmosphere of luxury jet set travel and the feeling and politics of the Cold War.

Rulayousef4 I very much enjoyed watching Pan Am, I felt that I go a exciting voyage with them.The characters was interesting especially the stewardesses , I like the outfits they wear it, the graceful walking , the look and their attractive personalities.What caught my attention the most is the pilots, seemed to students at the university. I liked Captain Dean Laurie (Mike Vogel) he is a pilot in reality For this reason, it was a nice role in the series .This series showed the reality of what is happening in the work of the majority of those working in the aviation.

stefan_s-493-927974 First, let me say that I very rarely watch any network TV programming. For those of you that thrive on prime time programming seven nights a week, your tastes may differ substantially from mine.Having said that, however, I will also say that I have bought the entire season from Amazon. That is the first time I have ever done that. This should say quite a bit about how much I like Pan Am.Several people have had their nit picks about various details. Remember that they are trying to recreate something from half a century ago, and it isn't just a matter of building a set in a studio plus a few exterior shots around town. Recreating the interior of a Boeing 707 and the entirety of Pan Am's Worldport must have been extremely challenging. It looks convincing enough, as do the uniforms.Yes, the pilots were way too young to be believable, that just wouldn't have happened in reality. The best I can say about that is that the main plots don't really revolve around them all that much. I can mentally substitute someone 20 years older and it pretty much still works.Yes, just about everyone smoked back then. Mad Men accurately reflects that, Pan Am doesn't. Being a non-smoker myself, maybe Pan Am depicts the way I wish things were instead of the way they really were.Overseas airline travel, especially on Pan Am, really was as exciting and glamorous as depicted. I never had the opportunity to fly on Pan Am myself, but you read things and you heard stories from people that had been lucky enough to do so. What is depicted in the television show seems to ring true.Pan Am stewardesses really were a special breed and icons of their era. The show revolves around them, and I suppose that their characterization and depiction is about as good as can be expected. There really was a lot of sexism in those days, and if anything what is depicted in the show is probably toned down a bit from the way it actually was. I doubt if Maggie would have actually been able to get away with as much as she does in the show. Of course we never heard anything about Pan Am stewardesses being CIA or MI6 operatives at the time, but in retrospect this makes perfect sense, and I don't doubt that it did happen. I do suspect that it would all have been done with a lot more care and lot less haphazard improvisation than is depicted - the airline's reputation was itself an important national asset, and neither the US government nor Juan Trippe would have wanted anything done that would have messed that up.As for the various plots: I've gotten hooked on the series, but some plot lines were more believable and entertaining than others. I actually did like the various clandestine missions that Kate was sent on. Collete is an attractive character, but would have been made more interesting if a deeper multi-dimensionality to her personality and back story could have been brought out. I actually found Maggie to be more than a little annoying; I frankly kept wishing that she would have gotten the firing that she richly deserved. Laura also left a little to be desired, and I would have liked to have seen a little more depth to her character rather than just seeing her panic through the endless successions of little crises that her immaturity keeps leading her into. Bridget actually gave the impression of being a very deep and interesting character - it is a shame that she was kept mostly in the background for the entire series. As other posters have pointed out, it really was unreal to have the same four main characters (plus the pilot and co-pilot) constantly flying together; we all knew that stewardesses were constantly being rotated around. I guess some artistic liberties were needed in order to build a series, but this was a very big one. In later episodes you do start seeing some of the characters taking time off and not being on board with the others, so that partially brings back some semi-reality. Still, the reality actually was that crew members working for Pan Am got to work with and know a lot of other Pan Am crew members; not exactly one big happy family, but it was a much wider network of relationships than what is depicted in the show.I do agree with many other posters that the pilot and co-pilot were unbelievably young, and I was not very impressed with or interested in their stories. The episode where the pilot decides to go ahead with an emergency landing in Haiti, of all places, and then barely takes off on a too-short runway minus the luggage and one dead passenger and plus one stowaway is just too unbelievable to allow even the usual suspension of belief. That he is still allowed to be in the cockpit in future episodes really does take us into never-never land. The pilots really were highly experienced and older, mostly ex-military WWII era. They really were called "Skygods", and for a reason. Even the older pilot that they introduce for the Moscow episode is only barely believable. The Pan Am pilots of that era were the best in the business and they didn't mess around, inside the cockpit at least.In summary, Pan Am isn't perfect - it has its flaws both when it comes to historical accuracy and as a television drama. Nevertheless, it did succeed for me in recreating what it was like to fly with and work for an iconic Pan Am in the early 1960s, and I enjoyed watching it.

waitingforvienna First and foremost, Pan Am's concept brings a breath of fresh air to television. Until Pan Am premiered, I had never heard of this glamorous, wonderful airline that was the icon of the early 1960s. Each episode provides new details and beautiful tidbits that flesh out our view of the airline that was Pan American.As many other reviewers have mentioned, the costumes and music are just fantastic. If anything captures the ambiance of the era, it is the visuals and the authentic tunes that come along with it. Pan Am is uncontested in its attention to detail.The characters each resemble their own facet of what being a Pan Am stewardess meant. It meant an opportunity to see the world and to change it, in whatever way possible. Not to mention, each character has a unique storyline accompanying them; consequently, they are relatable and iconic at the same time.The individual episodes continually provide different examples of the international relations of the time as well as the way it felt to be an American in the 1960s. The story lines have developed with each episode and have overlapped to become a beautiful and accurate depiction of the 1960s.One of the best shows and best concepts in television.