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[[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.
Other cities on the standard jet set routes were [[Los Angeles]], [[Paris]], and [[Rome]]. Jet set resorts, invariably with white sand and salt water, were circumspect by modern standards; [[Acapulco]], [[Nassau, Bahamas|Nassau]] with [[Huntington Hartford]]'s new [[Paradise Island]] (opened in 1962) were taking the place of [[Bermuda]]. Meanwhile, [[Cannes]], [[Capri]], [[St. Tropez]], [[Marbella]], [[Portofino]],<ref>"Portofino has long been fashionable with what we once called 'the jet set'."
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 the "[[paparazzi]]" – a jet set phenomenon – photographed them. They were the first generation that might 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 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|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/958205262|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=9780262036238|location=Cambridge, Massachusetts|pages=|oclc=958205262}}</ref>
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