3. Cleared for Take-Off
In modern times of the internet, 24 hour news coverage, constant communication and disposable income, people think nothing of hopping on a plane and catching a flight half way around the world. Be it for business or pleasure, the average person can afford to take to the skies to enjoy the cramped legroom, screaming kids and in-flight movies like anyone else. There's no glamour to it all, and most would see it as a chore. Things weren't always that way, as Mad Men demonstrates; Flying used to be all about style and success, where the wealthy reclined in spacious seating and smoked before take-off, enjoying more sophisticated drinks on the way served by enticing stewardesses in vogue uniforms. It was a new age where you could fly from your towering office in Manhattan to the sprawling sunshine of California, swinging to Los Angeles to do a little business and maybe some pleasure as well. You could just jet off to Paris or Rome for the weekend, and many wealthy, famous people chose to, giving rise to the "Jet Set", a term coined by New York Journal reporter Igor Cassini, followed later by Vogue Magazine's "The Beautiful People" to describe the circle of socialites that surrounded President John F. Kennedy and his wife Jacqueline. It was a far more classy version of celebrity, making everyday people aspire to be part of a cool, growing trend at the cutting edge of 1960s travel.