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September MLS home sale statistics*, plus annual totals tion in the late ’70s, Maynard says. “Fare wars led to pay cuts and cuts all over.”

Even during the most dazzling era, air travel wasn’t entirely glamorous.

Hunley, for example, recalls training at a defunct shoe warehouse in Fairfield, Texas. Snell says she once spent 10 hours in an airport ladies room while waiting for her assigned flight, just so she could take off her heels. She also was onboard a plane during a bomb scare, after which she and her crew underwent questioning by the FBI.

Despite Braniff’s sometimes-borderline misogynistic regulations and an eventual bankruptcy, which disrupted the lives and livelihood of Hunley, Maynard and many others, Hunley remembers the era fondly.

“It changed my life and I learned so much — more than I would have learned spending those years in college,” she says.

Airline employees — many of whom live in Dallas because it was home to Southwest, Braniff, American and two major airports — tend to stay in touch even long after retirement.

Maynard, for example, is on the board of an organization of former Braniff pilots, and he maintains close bonds with many of his fellow aviators. Hunley too says that, in flight, she made lifelong pals.

“I still have friends all over the country from the flying days,” she says. “Braniff was like a big family.”