Editing Jet set (section)

== History ==

The British international air carrier [[BOAC]] inaugurated the world's first commercial scheduled jet service on 2 May 1952, using the [[DH106 Comet|de Havilland Comet]], followed by the introduction of the Comet 4 in 1958 after a series of accidents in 1953–1954. The first successful service, from October 1958, was the typical "jet set" route, London–New York City. [[Pan American World Airways|Pan Am]] followed suit with the [[Boeing 707]], making its first scheduled flight between New York City and Paris on 26 October 1958.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Swopes |first1=Bryan |title=26 October 1958 |url=https://www.thisdayinaviation.com/26-october-1958/ |access-date=12 September 2023 |work=This Day in Aviation |date=26 October 2022}}</ref>

Other cities on the standard jet set routes were [[Honolulu]], [[Mexico City]], [[Las Vegas]], [[Los Angeles]], [[San Francisco]], [[Washington, D.C.]], [[Rio de Janeiro]], [[Athens]], [[Madrid]], [[Paris]], [[Rome]], [[Vienna]],  [[Bangkok]], [[Hong Kong]], [[Manila]], [[Punta del Este]] and [[Tokyo]]. Jet set resorts in places like [[Acapulco]] and [[Nassau, Bahamas|Nassau]], where [[Huntington Hartford]]'s new [[Paradise Island]] opened in 1962, were taking the place of [[Bermuda]]. Meanwhile, [[Cannes]], [[Capri]], [[St. Tropez]], [[Portofino]],<ref>"Portofino has long been fashionable with what we once called 'the jet set'." {{cite web |url=http://www.knowital.com/history/liguria/liguria-history.html |title=History and tourist information on Liguria, Italy |access-date=2007-04-27 |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070429213627/http://www.knowital.com/history/liguria/liguria-history.html |archive-date=2007-04-29 }}</ref> and other sea-side towns on the [[French Riviera|French]] and [[Italian Riviera|Italian]] Riviera were on the jet set itinerary. Greek Islands such as [[Mykonos]] were included in the loop around 1974.{{citation needed|date=July 2019}} Later on other hot spots such as Spain's [[Marbella]] on its [[Costa del Sol]] also developed a similar reputation.

The original members of this elite, free-wheeling set were those [[socialite]]s who were not shy about publicity and entertained in semi-public places like restaurants and in [[night club]]s, where [[paparazzi]]—a jet set phenomenon—photographed them. They were the first generation that might spend a weekend in Paris or fly to Rome just for a party. The jet set was celebrated in popular culture, for example, [[Federico Fellini]] captured their lifestyle in ''[[La Dolce Vita]]'' (1960), and many movies and record albums of the era promoted flying to foreign lands for honeymoons and getaways, such as Capitol Records ''Honeymoon in Rome'' (1956).<ref>{{Cite book|title=Designed for hi-fi living: the vinyl LP in midcentury America|last=Borgerson|first=Janet|publisher=MIT Press|others=Schroeder, Jonathan E., 1962-|year=2017|isbn=978-0-262-03623-8|location=Cambridge, Massachusetts|oclc=958205262}}</ref>

The term was joined in the spring of 1962 by ''[[Vogue (magazine)|Vogue]]''{{'s}} coinage of the term "the Beautiful People". This expression initially referred to the circle that formed around [[President of the United States|President]] [[John F. Kennedy]] and [[First Lady of the United States|First Lady]] [[Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis|Jacqueline Kennedy]]. Readers of the 15 February 1964 ''Vogue'' could learn "What the beautiful people are doing to keep fit." The two phrases ran for a time in tandem; in 1970, author and social commentator [[Cleveland Amory]] could fear "that the Beautiful People and the Jet Set are being threatened by current economics."<ref name=vogue/>

A sign that "jet set" had passed from urbane use was the 1974 [[country music|country]] song "[[(We're Not) The Jet Set]]", in which [[George Jones]] and [[Tammy Wynette]] claim they are "the old [[Chevrolet]] set," as opposed to leading a glamorous, "jet-setting" lifestyle.<ref>{{cite magazine |last1=Hackett |first1=Vernell |title=(We're Not) The Jet Set |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/were-not-the-jet-set-54990/ |access-date=April 30, 2024 |magazine=Rolling Stone |date=June 8, 2012}}</ref>

In 1976, the jet set first flew on the supersonic [[Concorde]]. Scheduled flights began on 21 January 1976 on the London–[[Bahrain]] oil executive route and the distinctly jet-set Paris–[[Rio de Janeiro]] (via [[Dakar]]) route. From November 1977 the Concorde was flying between standard jet-set destinations, London or Paris to New York City; passenger lists on initial flights were gossip-column material. The Concorde restored the term's cachet: "From rock stars to royalty, the Concorde was the way to travel for the jet set," according to the ''[[Nova (American TV series)|Nova]]'' retrospective special "Supersonic Dream".<ref>[https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/transcripts/3203_concorde.html On-line NOVA transcript] (18 January 2005)</ref> However, the Concorde was doomed by its [[sonic boom]], limited global fly-over rights because of the boom, its huge thirst for jet fuel, and [[Air France Flight 4590|a disastrous crash]]. The aircraft was retired in 2003. Meanwhile, the [[Boeing 747]], densely packed with some 400 passengers,<ref>366 in the 747-100 inaugurated in 1970; 400 by 1983 in the 747-300; and 467 in the 747-8 of 2010; see: [[Boeing_747#Specifications|Boeing 747 Specifications]]</ref> was a craft that accelerated the democratizing social changes already brought about by the jet age.