Don Draper flies first class and direct — never by connection!
The “Mad Men” character was shown landing in Southern California in Sunday’s season premiere.
While the airport’s name was never said out loud, any Southern California native could see the backdrop was old Ontario Airport, located 40 miles east of downtown LA, making it a perfectly reasonable place for the ad man to land.
The old Ontario Airport, shut down in 1998, was alive and well in Draper’s January 1969. The only problem is nonstop flights from New York to Ontario didn’t begin until 1984, with Pacific East Air doing three nonstops a week. Of course Don could have connected into Ontario through another hub, such as Chicago, but that’s not a classy Draper thing to do.