Once upon a time of flying was fun, comfortable and glamorous. This was before they started searching the passengers, before people had to curl up in three deaths in order to comfortably accommodate a chair, and before they had to pay for everything - from drinks on board to carry-on baggage. Let's take a look at photos of the heyday of air travel.
Everything else is relative. The passengers of aircraft in the 60s did not even know how they are lucky, and with what comfort they fly. In the photo: airplane passengers «Braniff» in 1967, enjoy private space, sipping coffee and reading magazines. (Bettmann / Corbis)

 Passengers on board «Boeing Stratocruiser». This two-story plane was equipped with beds and a VIP-room with bar. So many flights were turned into a pleasant trip. (Bettmann / Corbis)
 Captain LL Tris with two flight attendants sent to the rest room after a quick trip from Chicago to Washington. (Bettmann / Corbis)
 Stewardesses were allowed a passenger to look into the cockpit. (Bettmann / Corbis)
 This is a copy of the first cabin in the U.S. in 1956. Stewardesses pose for a plane «Boeing Jet Stratoliner» 98 seats, which had air conditioning, water, stoves, refrigerators, reading light and emergency exits. (Bettmann / Corbis)
 Girl smiling stewardess on board sometime in 1945-1955, respectively. (Bettmann / Corbis)

 Flight attendants in uniform. (Underwood & Underwood / Corbis)
 Passengers «Air France» enjoy gourmet delicacies and friendly smiles of flight attendants. (Corbis / Bettmann)
 A couple of passengers enjoying the privacy and friendly service in a private cabin in the 40's. (Pictorial Parade, Archive Photos / Getty Images)
 Waitress helps the pilot to descend the stairs from the plane in France. (Gaston Paris / Getty Images)
 Children on the chairs, which are arranged and turned in bed, while a fantastic flight in 1948, during which they brought breakfast in bed. (Bettmann / Corbis)
 Hostess «Western Airlines» work out maintenance on each other in an aircraft training center in Los Angeles. Flight attendants were trained to walk carefully in this section of the aircraft with trays of food, but do not spend time on it. (Bettmann / Corbis)
 Marilyn Monroe on the plane «American Airlines» in New York on his way to Hollywood in 1956. (Bettmann / Corbis)
 Pat Boone with his family says goodbye to New York, getting on a plane that will take them home - in Hollywood. (Bettmann / Corbis)
 Frank Sinatra is satisfied, after landing at London airport in 1956. (Hulton-Deutsch Collection / Corbis)
 Rock Hudson comes out of an airplane in New York with Ann Blyth in his arms in 1952. (Bettmann / Corbis)
 In 1950, a team of professional baseball players had to use the aircraft after a strike of railway workers. In the photo: Yogi Berra and Phil Ritstsuto of «Yankees» playing cards waiting for takeoff. (Bettmann / Corbis)
 Hugh Hefner with Cynthia Maddox (next to and on the cover of his magazine) on board the plane from Chicago to New York for a party Ella Fitzgerald. (Bettmann / Corbis)
 Audrey Hepburn with a 7-month-old son Sean is sent to Rome, then to meet with then-husband Mel Ferrer, Audrey. (Bettmann / Corbis)
 Advertising of the 1950s, in which the husband says goodbye to his wife and child before you get on a plane on a business trip. (PoodlesRock / Corbis)