Flying Ain’t What it Used to Be
October 3, 2006 by Mary Jo Manzanares
Filed under Air Travel
Passengers frequently say to me, “Flying just isn’t what it used to be.” You know, they’re right.
We wait longer at security. We can’t take many routine items onboard a plane. There have been cut back in onboard services, and many of the things that we used to get for free we now have to pay for. And we are all too frequently cramming too many people in a long metal tube to spend a couple of hours at 40,000 feet.
Some changes have been for the better, though.
The price of air travel remains cheap. Most destinations are served more frequently than ever before, and we get to our destinations faster.
I guess air travel is a good example of that old sales saying: You can get it fast, you can get it cheap, or you can get quality. But you can’t get all three.
How many of you long for the days of traveling in the DC-3 shown in the photo above? Was it really and kindler and gentler era of air travel?
Photo credit: Astroprof, c. 2006 (Thanks!)
