Barbara Billingsley, who would go on to her arguably most famous role as June Cleaver on Leave It to Beaver (1957), shows up as the instructor at stewardess school.

Ethel Wells, whose suggestions form the basis of this movie, has the small role essentially as herself, the assistant to stewardess trainer Ann White (Barbara Billingsley). Wells was a real-life stewardess for American Airlines. Some of the incidents in this film were from her experiences. According to MGM publicity for this picture, she was to go on a 80 city tour to promote this film.

The twin engined aircraft are Convair 240's, very similar to the Douglas DC-3 but had modern "tricycle" landing gear as opposed to the old DC-3's "tail dragger" layout. The four-engined aircraft are all the popular and common at the time DC-4's.

This is one of a handful of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer productions of the 1950-1951 period whose original copyrights were never renewed and are now apparently in Public Domain; for this reason this title is now offered, often in very inferior copies, at bargain prices, by numerous VHS and DVD distributors who do not normally handle copyrighted or Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer material.

This movie was written with either Lana Turner or June Allyson in mind to star in. Allyson was cast but became unavailable due to pregnancy once filming started and Jane Wyman was given the role.