[Kenny Bunk]

In 1980 how easy was it to buy a plane ticket without any ID?

Back before America had slipped toward Third World-ism, air travel was about as complicated as taking a cross-town bus.

[4Zoltan]

“Back before America had slipped toward Third World-ism, air travel was about as complicated as taking a cross-town bus.”

There is a scene in the 1974 movie the “Parallax View” where Warren Beatty gets on a plane without a ticket, the stewardess (as they were called back then) comes up to him and sells him a ticket.

I don’t know how true that was but I laugh at it every time I see.