(This post is the eighth in a series; for the seven preceding posts, see below.)
Well, here we are, finally at the current stage of our flight crew uniform design,...
29/08/2014
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Seventh in a series (for the rest, see links below)
In 1989, Iberia management decided that not only was it time to update the flight crew uniform, but also to...
21/08/2014
As Spain and its society started changing more profoundly in the 1980s, it was time to update Iberia's flight crew wardrobe once again. And Elio Berhanyer, who'd been designing...
15/08/2014
Fourth in a series. (For the rest, see below.)
After the innovations of Manuel Pertegaz, in 1972 a new fashion guru took the reins at Iberia. Córdoba-born designer Elio Berhanyer would...
31/07/2014
Third in a series (see bottom for parts 1-2).
By the late 1960s, the decade had turned into one of great upheaval, with momentous events including the Prague Spring, France's tumultuous...
25/07/2014
2nd in a series
In 1954 Iberia decided to refresh the look of its flight crew uniforms, and they turned to Pedro Rodríguez, a Catalan designer originally from Valencia. Nothing...
18/07/2014
The first in a series.
Picture it: 1946. World War II had just come to a close, and the 21-year-old Iberia Airlines was launching its first transatlantic route between Madrid...
11/07/2014
A couple of months ago we let you in on a quartet of unusual airports, in New Zealand, Honduras, and the Caribbean islands of St. Maarten/St. Martin and Saba....
18/06/2014
Several years ago, during a planespotting photo shoot near Barajas Airport, I tuned in via airband radio (able to receive but not transmit on frequencies used by pilots and...
11/06/2014
Many workplaces have "break rooms". For longhaul airline crews, this means a rest area that provides a space to get in some crucial sleep in order to be in...
06/06/2014
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