Hell, I take that back, you don't need to go forward, just backward, Even to like the 70's, It had to better than this.
It’s kind of both.
I was reading a blog about someone who did that reserved thing, where they can take a seat if someone was a no-show and they got a trip to South Korea for something like a hundred bucks. Crazy. The description of the flight to Korea sounded like something from the golden age of first class travel. No bagged peanuts either.