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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When airlines stop treating passengers as cattle, then sure.[/quote]

Yep.

He doesn't talk about how big the seats were then does he? [/quote]

Seriously.  If he wants passengers to go back to 1960s standards of dress, then he needs to talk to the airlines about going back to the 1960s standards for seat size/leg room and service.  Pretty telling he's lecturing us while not saying a thing about the airlines.[/quote]

You wouldn't fly then.  1960s prices were high.  So high that normal people could not afford to fly.[/quote]

Wrong:

"According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, prices for airline fares are 981.56% higher in 2025 versus 1963 (a $981.56 difference in value).

Between 1963 and 2025: Airfare experienced an average inflation rate of 3.91% per year. This rate of change indicates significant inflation. In other words, airfare costing $100 in the year 1963 would cost $1,081.56 in 2025 for an equivalent purchase. Compared to the overall inflation rate of 3.86% during this same period, inflation for airfare was higher."

https://www.in2013dollars.com/Airline-fares/price-inflation

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When I went to college in 1990, my roundtrip flights from a small airport out west to a small airport in the East were almost $1,000.  That would be $2,480 in today's dollars.  I remember how much they were because I couldn't afford to come home for breaks, and I was scrounging for every discount with getting student credit cards and so forth.  Now my kid is like "oh, I think I'll fly half way across the country to go to a concert with a friend" and it's not that big a deal.  And she can change flights!  If I had to change a flight in 1990, it was like you needed to sell a family heirloom to afford the change fees.  [/quote]

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