{"id":12636,"date":"2015-06-12T09:00:47","date_gmt":"2015-06-12T13:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=12636"},"modified":"2015-06-12T08:10:41","modified_gmt":"2015-06-12T12:10:41","slug":"men-only-flights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2015\/men-only-flights\/","title":{"rendered":"Men Only Flights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/061215_1202_MenOnlyFlig1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"639\" height=\"639\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As recently as 1970 United Airlines offered men only flights wrote Gary Leff:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The flights operated between the New York-Chicago and Los Angeles-San Francisco business districts.<\/li>\n<li>Both women and children were banned from the planes except, of course, for the air hostesses who would light the men&#8217;s complimentary cigars.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Last minute message service&#8221; was offered, allowing passengers to have the airline make a call to the office on their behalf.<\/li>\n<li>The flights also had a teletype update service to provide passengers with closing market numbers.<\/li>\n<li>One possibly apocryphal story from the era suggests that when wives of frequent travelers on the men only flights were asked about the flight, the most common response was &#8220;what flight?&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>See ads for the flight from the era, and read more over <a href=\"http:\/\/viewfromthewing.boardingarea.com\/2015\/05\/27\/united-airlines-men-only-executive-service\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/viewfromthewing.boardingarea.com\/2015\/05\/27\/united-airlines-men-only-executive-service\/\">View from the Wing<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2015\/05\/assorted-links-1402.html\">Marginal Revolution<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As recently as 1970 United Airlines offered men only flights wrote Gary Leff: The flights operated between the New York-Chicago and Los Angeles-San Francisco business districts. Both women and children were banned from the planes except, of course, for the air hostesses who would light the men&#8217;s complimentary cigars. &#8220;Last minute message service&#8221; was offered, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12635,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/061215_1202_MenOnlyFlig1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12636"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12638,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12636\/revisions\/12638"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}