Not English as in they’re American in nationality.
Well then, I’m out of guesses for now. Maybe it’ll turn up on late-night TV this weekend. 
Right offhand, the only American I can think of who would address a woman as “Madam” is Vincent Price.
Another from the same movie.
“My late husband played the violin. Not professionally, but he was very good. He once played the Minute Waltz in 58 seconds.”
Somebody has to know this.
Airplane ??
Not quite.
Surely not Zero Hour? 
I think I know. Airport, with Helen Hayes as the widow, talking to Whit Bissell in the seat next to her?
Finally, yes.
“Roger, Lincoln, you’ve just freed the slaves again. Request PAR approach.”
Captain Demerest (Dean Martin) to the Lincoln Airport approach controller when told that runway two-niner is open.
“I can’t hear a thing. There’s too much noise. Hold on. We’re goin’ for broke!”
Joe Patroni (the brilliant George Kennedy) just before he drives the stuck 707 out of the snow.
“My late husband played the violin. Not professionally, but he was very good. He once played the Minute Waltz in 58 seconds.”
Ada Quonset (Helen Hayes) chatting with a passenger next to her; might have been Whit Bissell, but I can’t say for sure.
Whit asks her if she’d like another sherry, just before Jacqueline Bisset asks to see her ticket/boarding pass.
Things clicked for me when I remembered they had to divert to Lincoln because Chicago couldn’t take the damaged 707.
Fun Fact: The location scenes were filmed at MPS/SP International because the producers expected a real Minnesota winter. Unfortunately, the winter of 1969–70 was unusually mild, and they had to truck in tons of fake snow.
Trivia Challenge: Nancy Carlson (née Nelson), WCCO’s late-night “weathergirl” at the time, landed a bit part in the movie, playing a character of some importance. What was her job in the movie?
Hint: She’s not named in the movie, but her name in Hailey’s novel is “Bunny.”
Or, more accurately perhaps, the damaged 707 could never make it to Chicago.
I thought it was supposed to be Lincoln Airport in Chicago; named for Abraham Lincoln, not Lincoln, Nebraska. They land at the same airport they depart from.
I’ll be flying to MSP in a couple months; I wonder if anything is still recognizable from the movie. I’ve been there before, but not for years. There’s a rather distinctive awning in the movie, and I think I know where that is, but I expect everything has been rebuilt since then (probably more than once).
Just a guess, but is she the one who sells Guerrero the flight insurance for the plane he’s planning to blow up?
Yep, the “Kook” played by Van Heflin. Very good!
I spent a lot of time at MPS/SP in the '60s, travelling to see my dad around the country. And yes. I remember the “awning” (I’d call it a transparent vaulted roof). It was like walking through a tunnel to get to the different concourses.
I went back to Minneapolis with my four-year-old daughter just after Christmas 1999, so she could see her grandpa before he died from bone cancer. I didn’t recognize the airport at all. It had changed completely from the way I remembered it.
I haven’t gone back since, nor do I expect to.
Also, 1999–2000 was another unseasonably mild winter. My daughter and I went for a walk around Lake Calhoun the first week in January, and we were dressed very lightly.
Is there a Lincoln Airport in Chicago? I don’t remember one. I thought the 707 had to divert to Lincoln, NB, because they couldn’t make the turn to Chicago with all the bomb damage.
We may be thinking of different places. There’s a shot at the beginning of the movie that shows the outside of the terminal, where cars drive up for departures and arrivals. There’s an awning with a noticeable sawtooth shape. I think I know where that probably was, back in the day.
My dad’s family is from nearby. I vaguely remember flying there in '75. I’ve changed planes there a few times in recent years. It’s changed a lot, but I think I can map the old layout to the currecct one.
On one of my trips I found an upstairs observation room with a lot of passengers sacked out.
I’ll be back in April for a rememberance for my uncle. I hope to have a couple days to travel around and see how much the area has changed.
I don’t think so, but I guess they wanted a fictional name for some reason.
The damaged plane definitely returns to the same airport it departed from. The captain has an argument with the airport manager (also his brother-in-law) and uses the shorter runway because the longer one is blocked. When they return, it’s a race against time to clear the longer runway so they can land safely.
I should probably see the movie again. It’s been at least 50 years since I saw it last.
I don’t remember the awning over the entrance specifically, but I do recall the terminal had kind of a unified futuristic design (for the '60s, anyway).
There have been so many spoofs of disaster movies that it’ll probably be hard to take a real one seriously. Expect an abundance of melodrama. George Kennedy is fantastic in it.
Reviewers at the time said it would appeal mostly to “older viewers.” I was still in high school then, and I quite enjoyed it.
Spaceballs, of course.
God, those drawings are great
“Do you have a license for your munkey?”
Thanks to your spelling I know who, but not the movie.