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In reply to the discussion: airlines are getting tough with people who bring roller bags on plane [View all]MADem
(135,425 posts)'First' or 'Business' class...and the meal was better too--on a real tray, with silverware and a cloth napkin!!
I can also remember stretching out across a row of those 'steerage' seats with a pillow and a blanket, and sleeping from CA to MA!
I can't imagine what those poor flight attendants had to deal with, with all that cutlery and coffee cups and trays and so forth. It must have been a real mess back in those galleys (which really don't exist anymore--and the FAs hardly have a place to sit, either.
Of course, while I'm remembering those "good old days," I am also remembering that I paid MORE for a round trip flight to the Caribbean back in the early seventies than I paid for the same flight to the same place last year. And no, I'm not correcting for inflation--I'm talking actual dollars! If there were a road across the ocean, I couldn't drive so cheap!