Carriers such as Singapore Airlines, Emirates and Qatar have all recently unveiled first-class and business-class suites featuring beds in compartments but vintage pictures reveal that this kind of luxury was standard in the 1930s.

Of course, they were much noisier, but these incredible machines featured plush armchairs, dining rooms festooned with fine china, dressing rooms and separate bathrooms for men and women.





A Boeing 314 Clipper flying boat owned by Pan Am called Yankee Clipper.


It sits in the water off Calshot Castle in Southampton in the UK after completing a transatlantic crossing.








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When food was served on board, wealthy passengers were able to sit at restaurant-style tables and chairs and eat their meals using fine china.

Bar: The clubhouse-style interior of the Clipper Yankee.

US president Franklin D Roosevelt and UK Prime Minister Winston Churchill are both known to have used Clipper services.

Explorers again.


Abeg manage dis 4 more energy...u dey try
Pls check under d table for d pot of stew.

Passengers relax in the main salon on the Pan Am Martin Clipper.



A one-way ticket from San Francisco to Hong Kong could cost as much $760, the equivalent of up to $13,000 (£9,600) today.

Two passengers playing chess in a Pan American Clipper seaplane in October 1936. These planes plied the Pacific routes between San Francisco and Hong Kong, Hawaii, and Manila.




A boy and a girl pass the time by playing a game on board the Pan Am Martin Clipper.

The flying boats also came complete with bunk beds in sleeping compartments with some aircraft even having honeymoon suites on them.

Pictured left is a passenger being served breakfast in bed.

A flight attendant prepares the meals on board a Pan Am clipper.


The outbreak of the Second World War slowed down the production of the flying boats.

EuroBoy007:
Explorers again.


Abeg manage dis 4 more energy...u dey try
Pls check under d table for d pot of stew.

Lol....Make i go wash my hand, tnx bro.

I was on that flight. You can ask the pilot.

Explorers:


Lol....Make i go wash my hand, tnx bro.

UWC bro

Seen

Oyibo has been advanced as far back as when Africans were still living in the thick forest without clothes.

mgbe elu bu ala osa

Kitchen fresh meals are yummier.
Nowadays, what you get is microwaved meals.

Explorers:
The flying boats also came complete with bunk beds in sleeping compartments with some aircraft even having honeymoon suites on them.

Pictured left is a passenger being served breakfast in bed.

The second picture, the girl up was like " Oga please be fast and give me my own food"

Funjosh:





The second picture, the girl up was like " Oga please be fast and give me my own food"

Lol...

Lovetinz:
Kitchen fresh meals are yummier.
Nowadays, what you get is microwaved meals.

You can still get kitchen fresh meals on a luxury cruise ship

all i have to say is .........

WinningSun:
all i have to say is .........

thank you Lord

oyinbo doing it right form inception.


while africans are busy gallavanting and hailing their political leaders! for looting them

wow!

Please Mr explorers can we see the exterior part,

Explorers is king