Amazing In-Flight Perks That Airlines Had In The 1960s

Naughty passengers would throw the keys to their luggage into a bowl and take home whatever suitcases they ended up with.

Instead of foil packets, passengers savored a full plate of peanuts slow-cooked in their natural juices with sides of rice pilaf and roasted asparagus.

Traveling with kids is always tough, but airlines used to soothe babies by letting them have their very own Virginia Slim.

If they had enough points or miles with the respective airline, a person of any ethnic group had the opportunity to be upgraded to the whites-only section of the plane.

Sure made getting a window view easier.

Even in the golden age of flying, in-flight entertainment was rather limited, but you could always go for a walk on the wing.

Every Pan Am flight had a live, midair performance by a Rat Pack member of Peter Lawford quality or higher.

You thought airlines used to make people get up and walk to use the restroom?

Unlike the cramped restrooms of modern planes, coach passengers used to be able to cleanse themselves in a series of hot and cold pools and then be massaged by a member of the flight crew.

It’s sad we can’t reach out and touch the clouds anymore.

Instead of today’s crappy in-flight entertainment, each seat back used to have a masterwork from artists such as Monet and Van Gogh for passengers to contemplate during their flight.

Loopholes in the Vietnam War draft forbade arrest while airborne, resulting in thousands of men age 18 to 26 spending years flying from city to city.

When smoking was legal on planes, passengers could easily grab a smoke from the 3-inch layer of Lucky Strikes blanketing the cabin floor.

Wireless mid-flight high-speed internet used to be free in the 1960s.

Airlines used to let you carry on your shoe bombs as long as you didn’t detonate them, but one guy had to ruin the treat for everyone.

These days most major airlines charge extra fees for blow.

Airlines were happy to corroborate your name being whatever you said it was.

It’s crazy to imagine now, but back then, coach passengers were often allowed to sit down for the entirety of the flight.