I agree today’s travel is like being packed into a sardine can. I took my first flight last year in 50 years from Bismarck to DC. I was looking forward to it. What a disappointment. I was stuck in the middle of three seats where my arms literally touched the guy on both sides. The leg room was pathetic. The meals were fast food junk they simply warmed over.
My last flight decades ago had reclining seats, good side room and excellent meals with little head phones to listen to music or a movie being played. None of that on last year crappy Airbus 320.
I looked forward to the free deck of cards too, back in the day.