Posted on 07/21/2023 7:15:45 AM PDT by PJ-Comix
I remember air travel when I was a kid as an extremely pleasurable experience. On one air trip I travelled to the 1964 New York World's Fair where I was dazzled by images of a golden future. It got me to thinking that if air travel was already so fantastic then how incredible would it be in the future?
PING!
Now the big corporations and godless billionaires treat us like cattle.
Fond memories of Braniff Air and miniskirts and go-go boots....
When I was a kid, people dressed up like civilized human beings to fly on a airplane.....
Nowadays they wear pajamas and fuzzy house shoes.............
I made the mistake a few weeks ago of taking Spirit Airlines. They ought to call it, Ghetto Airlines.
Except for the damn smokers.
Air travel became unfriendly following 9/11 when the government took over the process.
TMFINR
LOL! YUP! My first flight ever was at 13 from NYC to Paris. TWA 707 in summer of 1961. Coat and tie. Shined shoes. Lounge area near the aft IIRC. My dad was getting stationed in London with the Navy and at the time there weren’t direct flights to London so it was to Paris and then on a Super G Constellation back across the channel. Good times. Now I get the heebee jeebees just driving past the airport exit. If I never fly again that will be just fine. 🛫🛬
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No kidding...New York City was charming and pleasant place once upon a time....about 150+ years ago.
Yes, but you paid a high price for that pleasurable experience.
In 1960 a round trip ticket from New York to London costs $550.00.
In 2023 dollars that would be $5,700.00
If you want to pay $5,700.00 for a flight to London, you will get great service.
Babes
Excellent food
Very friendly service
Extra nice to kids
I remember Dakotas and Electras and Convairs on TIA and Southern
Then 707s changed it all
DC9 too and 727s
I only fly forward if over one hour now at old and six five
“Air travel became unfriendly following 9/11 when the government took over the process.”
And as usual, the irony boggles the mind. Government failure is what led to 9/11, since government “”intel”” agencies are supposed to be doing their jobs and watching out for such terrorist schemes. At least, that’s what is portrayed on all of the TV and movie terrorist-themed shows. Government agents hot on the heels of potential threats. Uh huh.
Unfortunately, we now know that the reality is... our government “”intel”” is chock full of Strzoks, Pages and McCabes... political hack @holes that allow their radically left politics to direct and dictate what they bother to “investigate”.
If the plan was:
* Government - leftists in government fail to protect the USA from attacks from without
* Government - leftists in government then swoop in to protect the USA, ultimately turning the USA into a totalitarian-dictatorship-like nation via endless ‘regulations’
* Check - Mission Accomplished by leftists in government...ie our enemy within.
And the real problem here is... this is a proven, working formula that government leftists WILL keep using. What’s to stop them?
I grew up and got to know some beautiful stewardesses on avianca and varig
And eastern Latin American route
Exquisite gals
“I made the mistake a few weeks ago of taking Spirit Airlines. They ought to call it, Ghetto Airlines.”
Or.. maybe...
Dark Spirit Airlines
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