I am not a jet-setter, but when I was a little girl and a teenager, we took family vacations to Hawaii and flew on Pan Am to Honolulu. Those flights were luxurious and wonderful, even for a twitchy little kid. The hostesses were kind and indulgent, and of course I thought they were the epitome of sophistication and beauty. If I went to sleep they would cover me with a blanket so delicately that I didn’t wake up. We were awarded little “wings” pins just for being on the flight. The food was incredibly good, and it was served on china with real, metal utensils, not plastic, and linen napkins. On one trip, the inflight meal was beef Stroganoff and I thought it was best thing I had ever tasted. They gave me a second meal and I ate that one, too. It used to be such a pleasure to fly, and now it is a totalitarian nightmare.
I’ve remember those days somewhat.Recently,we traveled in
Japan on ANA and was treated as a human being. I guess 99.00
to ca.doesn’t much airline?
I was a kid back when air travel used to be a special event, something that everyone looked forward to. We would fly on vacations from Maine to Florida, always on Delta, and the service was incredible. Now you either pay quadruple the price to fly first class (which many flights have eliminated altogether), or you take a sedative a try and sleep through the hell of “modern” coach-level air travel.