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Let us first say that this is the episode where the girls have looked their best so far. Kate, Colette and Maggie all attended a fancy foreign party and thus donned killer cocktail dresses, while Laura and Amanda showed off in figure-hugging sweater sets. When will Pan Am inspire a retail collaboration like Mad Men did with Banana Republic? Oh, probably never, but a girl can dream.

Anywho—most of the gang was off to Rome this week, but Bridget (pilot Dean's old/new flame) was conspicuously absent and Ted stayed home to begin playing house with his new fiance, the bi-curious Amanda (played by Ashley Greene). Filling the gap was the newish character Captain Broyles (aka "Sky God"), who we learned last episode moonlights as a smuggler of goods, a fact which comes heavier into play this episode. ]]> JetSetCD 2012-01-23T12:31:03-05:00 http://www.jaunted.com/story/2012/1/15/203326/544
Broyles crashes Dean's Moscow pep talk

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This episode picks up exactly where we left off last week, with pilot Dean and newly returned stewardess/former MI6 spy Bridget hopping into bed with each other. Bridget still loves Dean and wants to pick up where things left off (with her as his fiance), but Dean has moved on to Colette and would rather just bed Bridget one last time. Maybe she's so irresistible again because he just found out she's a spy, and spies are hot? That's just our guess.

Regardless, Dean and Bridget part that morning in London for good (here's hoping), as Dean reveals again how hurt he's been over all the lies: "So everything I didn't understand was because you were a spy and I was in the dark?"

Ring ring ring! Dean picks up the hotel room phone to discover he's been summoned back to New York for a meeting with Pan Am's chief Juan Trippe. About what? Oh well, after a nice computer-generated panorama of the Pan Am Worldport at JFK, we find out it's all concerning PAA being the first western airline to return to the Soviet Union, and Trippe wants Dean in the captain's seat—the "face of the Jet Age" and whatnot. Wait, we thought that was Laura on the cover of LIFE? Anyways, the plane leaves ASAP.]]> JetSetCD 2012-01-16T10:38:01-05:00 http://www.jaunted.com/story/2012/1/9/93616/64239
We highly doubt a stewardess, in their immanculate Pan Am uniform, would sit on the floor of a plane to drink, while surrounded by perfectly fine First Class seats

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Wow. It's been a full month since the last episode of Pan Am and, to tell you the truth, we blanked on where things left off. When a show is in danger of being cancelled, it's not the wisest to postpone new episodes for four weeks because—just as if the show was already cancelled—watchers begin the process of forgetting about it.

Luckily Pan Am is back for more episodes until the network figures out what to do with it, and last night continued the romantic drama and espionage intrigue we've come to expect. With a side of retro air travel.]]> JetSetCD 2012-01-09T12:03:03-05:00 http://www.jaunted.com/story/2011/12/29/85015/912

It's that time of the year again, the time when the year just plain ends. Alas, we can't just let 2011 go that easily, especially since travelers spent it both up in the air and up in arms over a crazy range of topics, encompassing everything from nudie scans to tarmac delays. Needless to say, we're ready for 2012, but first we're taking a brief look back at the best of 2011 with the Jaunted Travel Awards,—or as we fondly refer to them—The Jauntys.

We've had it with the Kim Kardashians and Angelina Jolies of the celebrity First Class flyer ranks; 2011's honoree is not only a consummate traveler who knows his way around airports, but he's entertaining and real. He's Anthony Bourdain, chef, author, tv show host and overindulger. ]]> Jaunted11 2011-12-29T09:00:02-05:00 http://www.jaunted.com/story/2011/12/4/20052/6361

Episode 8 recap here.

It's been three weeks since the last new episode of Pan Am. Three weeks! In that time, the biggest chatter hasn't been around their panicky escape from Haiti or how good the show is becoming, but rather is it already cancelled? The answer, for now, is no, but the introduction of Twilight's Ashley Greene and even more love/relationship drama means the show is getting desperate to cling to its on-air life.

London was the destination this week, and everyone's onboard as usual, save for pilot Dean and Frenchie flight attendant Colette. Instead of hopping the Atlantic, Dean leaves his first office stripes at home and dons a denim look to take Colette to meet his parents. So soon?! They've only been flirting and having a casual romance, but we get the feeling that Dean is keen to get himself a wifey.

After all, remember Bridget? Dean barely does, his father really does, but Dean covers the awkwardness during a tender moment with Colette, saying that something about her didn't quite add up (umm her secretive CIA-ness?) and he never brought her to meet the 'rents. Colette buys this, and they get it on in the family barn. Eww.]]> JetSetCD 2011-12-05T12:17:06-05:00 http://www.jaunted.com/story/2011/12/2/133250/493

Do you recall the first ever time you watched The Travel Channel? We do. It was a special moment where we went from being stuck in a Sedona, AZ hotel on an uncharacteristically rainy day to being obsessed with watching the room TV for hours and hours. Nothing has changed; the Travel Channel still produces some of the most inspiring programming as far as armchair traveling goes (once they got over that summer where it was like, Las Vegas show after Las Vegas show).

For 2012, the outlook for addictive series looks very good. Of a slew of leaked shows to debut next year, we're mostly salivating over two:

“Baggage Battles” (six half-hour episodes)
This half hour series follows three teams of savvy “auction specialists,” who travel the world looking to snatch up unclaimed and lost personal property in an attempt to turn huge profits. Follow these specialists as they travel to some of the most important and unknown auctions, where pickers and resale experts bid on everything from lost luggage to abandoned personal property to seized goods of unusual merchandise.

“Miami International Airport” (working title) (six half-hour episodes)
Go behind the scenes at one of the busiest airports in the country. “Miami International Airport” features an unprecedented cross section of an exciting airport staff as they deal with the stresses of getting over 100,000 strangers through its airport safely, every day.

A ha! So it looks like BWI won't be the only airport to have their own show in 2012. And if you're into hotel shows as well, HotelChatter has the hot goss on another of Travel Channel's upcoming offerings: "Hotel Impossible." ]]> JetSetCD 2011-12-02T16:12:38-05:00 http://www.jaunted.com/story/2011/11/21/13050/841

Tonight's the night.

Anthony Bourdain is back. And instead of being in the kitchen or in the middle of a meal, he's on airplanes and on streets around the world, sharing the places he thinks are cool and worthy of a visit when you're on a limited time and limited budget. That's the entire gist of his new Travel Channel series The Layover, which premieres this evening at 9pm EST/8pm CST.

His first stop is Singapore, where he'll be drinking (duh) and eating (duh x 2), but also stopping in the red-light district and at the Thieves Market. Will we see a whole new side of the lovable curmudgeon? It's likely, but there still seems to be quite a bit of eating going on in The Layover, which could just as easily feature in his other series, No Reservations. ]]> JetSetCD 2011-11-21T14:41:39-05:00 Search Jaunted string http://www.jaunted.com/search/