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Pan Am Episode 12: Smugglers, Spies and a Surprise Prince

January 23, 2012 at 12:31 PM | by | Comments (0)


Laura asks for a loan from Amanda

Read our past Pan Am episode recaps here.

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.

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Pan Am Episode 11: Back in the USSR, with Light Espionage

January 16, 2012 at 10:38 AM | by | Comments (0)


Broyles crashes Dean's Moscow pep talk

Read our past Pan Am episode recaps here.

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.

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Pan Am Episode 10: London, Loathing and a Lie Detector

January 9, 2012 at 12:03 PM | by | Comments (0)


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

Read our past Pan Am episode recaps here.

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.

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Flying from Toronto to Chicago in a 737: Our First-Person Flight Sim Fun

Where: Australia
January 5, 2012 at 11:54 AM | by | Comment (1)

Since we do a good amount of flying, we've been lucky enough to enjoy seat 1A but also thankful enough just to be onboard in the last row of economy. Recently, this Jaunted writer had the opportunity to sit in an all totally new area of the plane (to us). No, I didn't get to travel in the cargo hold as luggage, instead I got to fly the plane.

Long gone are the days when children were escorted up to the cockpit for a view of the brains of the aircraft, a visit with the pilots, and, inevitably, a set of plastic wings. Since 2001, airlines no longer allow passengers access to the flight deck for obvious reasons, but the dream still exists for many.

Last month we told you all about the British Airways simulator gift card idea. Obviously, my family and friends were listening since I received a boarding pass (gift voucher) for a 60-minute flight simulator experience with a company called Flight Experience. As someone whose interests are primarily consumed by travel, I am always looking for a way to upgrade. Naturally I went ahead and upgraded myself from the 60 to the 90-minute simulation.

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The Latest on the Alec Baldwin, Words With Friends, American Airlines Insanity

December 12, 2011 at 8:25 AM | by | Comments (0)

Stop us if you've already seen this, but Alec Baldwin took his Words With Friends cause to SNL's Weekend Update on Saturday night to, well...apologize to himself.

In case you've been living in a cave the last several days, the story goes a little something like this: Baldwin was sitting on an American Airlines plane at LAX, playing the mobile app word game "Words With Friends." The plane door had already been closed (the cue to turn off electronic devices), and Alec refused flight attendant demands to turn off his device. He continued playing the Scrabble-like game, even retreating to the airplane bathroom in anger. So the plane kicked him off.

Alec tweeted his frustrations before being placed on a later flight, vowing never to fly American Airlines again. This was followed by a media flurry over the whole juicy ordeal, Alec mysteriously closing his Twitter account, and an offer from Greyhound to come play Words With Friends with their CEO on their buses.

So, back to the SNL video....

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Video Interlude: The British Airways Ad That Put a Tear in Our Eye

December 6, 2011 at 10:03 AM | by | Comment (1)

We have a confession. Yesterday, somewhere over the northeast, we almost cried on an airplane. No, it wasn't due to some sappy movie on the seatback TV, nor was it because we didn't have time for a second Goose Island beer back at O'Hare Airport. Nope—we shed a single tear over a commercial from British Airways.

At the end of September, the Brit airline launched their newest campaign "To Fly. To Serve." Hearkening back to the glory days of aviation, BA peppers each spot with flashbacks to prop planes and the Concorde, plus their dashing pilots in full, crisp uniform. They're beautiful ads, but none more cinematic and engrossing than the one above.

Another version of the ad is here, but this one has the moneyshots of each plane taking off—from the early days when pilots were glorified mail carriers to the modern era, when lifting a 747 off the ground is just part of a regular day's work.

Enjoy. Keep a hanky handy.

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Pan Am Episode 9: Love, London and a Smoking Gun

December 5, 2011 at 12:17 PM | by | Comments (0)

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.

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Pan Am Episode 8: A Hurricane, Heart Attack, and Haitian Situation

November 14, 2011 at 11:10 AM | by | Comment (1)

Episode 7 recap here.

Wow. What a change of pace from last episode's relationship issues left and right to this episode's getting down to business. Serious aviation geeks no doubt enjoyed it with all the pilot-talk, but there's no doubt that last night's plotline of an emergency landing in politically unstable Haiti, complete with death and guns and near mutiny of the plane, was edge-of-the-seat stuff. Here's how it all went down:

It's a normal morning at the Pan Am Worldport as the crew prepares for a flight to Caracas, Venezuela, but there's a new guy on the scene. His name is Charles Moore and he's to be the crew's navigator while their regular Indian guy is on vacation. Like every other redblooded male in the show so far, he's immediately drooling over blonde Laura's booty. But speaking o blonde Laura, anyone else notice she's not so platinum blonde anymore?

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Seth Rogen Isn't an Airline Pilot, But He Plays One in His New Movie

November 8, 2011 at 2:57 PM | by | Comments (0)

Seth Rogen might not have a pilot's license, but in his new movie he plays someone who does. The funnyman is currently filming For A Good Time Call, about two girls who start a phone sex line and their various callers, in Los Angeles.

The movie was written by his wife Lauren Miller, who also appears in Good Time. Together, the couple decided to make Seth's character an airline pilot because they thought pilots were the type of people who call sex hotlines:

We were figuring what kind of people would actually call phone sex lines and we thought airplane pilots probably do. They’re on the road a lot.

Lauren and Seth might think the concept is funny, but we doubt many pilots out there will feel the same.

For A Good Time Call is expected to land in theaters next year.

[Photo: AceShowBiz]

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Pan Am Episode 7: Communism and Racism Have No Place in the Skies

November 7, 2011 at 11:30 AM | by | Comment (1)


Laura and Joe in the midst of sexual tension

As promised in the last episode of Pan Am, there's plenty more CIA spy drama and romance to go around, but as it is with people constantly on the go (and potentially wrapped up in everything from Communism to racism), the ending is bittersweet.

This episode sees the gang heading first from Madrid to New York on a special chartered flight to bring servicemen (sailors!) home to the US. Next, they're all off on Pan Am Flight 2, one of the airline's infamous around-the-world flights. But first—Madrid.

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Cocktails for Pilots? They Do Exist!

November 2, 2011 at 4:34 PM | by | Comments (0)

Peach & Mint Lemonade and Berries & Cream.

Nice cocktails in a smooth-looking bar, right? Wrong, friends, for these are not just any cocktails. They are “For The Pilot” cocktails and they come from a place that’s a travel geek’s dream.

We had them last week at Hotel Verta – the hotel that’s attached to London’s heliport. We’d heard it was loosely themed around the “golden age of travel” (1930s, apparently), but what we didn’t know was that at every turn in the hotel, there’s something travel-related.

There are battered leather suitcases in the bar, maps folded into paper airplanes and used as art in the rooms, glam helicopter-themed postcards, more paper airplanes hanging from the roof of the restaurant, and more importantly, floor-to-ceiling windows showing the heliport itself all the way down one side of the hotel.

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Pan Am Episode 6: Secrets Come to the Surface in Rio

October 31, 2011 at 11:03 AM | by | Comments (0)

Last week on Pan Am: Seduction in the South of France

If you haven't watched Pan Am yet and you happened to be flipping channels last night, the very beginning of this most recent episode would've caused you to stop and pay attention. Dean—the pilot and golden boy—was in bed, naked to his waist. In saunters Ginny—the two-timing brunette temptress—wearing nothing but part of Dean's oversized Pan Am pilot's uniform. It was, by far, the sauciest moment of the show, but not the most dramatic. No, we'll save that to be had by little miss Maggie (Christina Ricci) as she's faced with losing her job.

In what was a minor scene in a preview episode, Maggie mouthed off to a senior PAA staff woman in charge of the flight attendant grooming. This, combined with previous infractions, means Maggie is grounded for insubordination. Somehow she secures one final flight—to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

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