[fallujah-nuker]

I'd forgotten about that bird but you're right. By first flight on a jet was a Western B-720 from SFO to Sea-Tac in 1966. My grandfather lived in Sacramento and we normally flew a United DC-6 down to see him each year, but UAL was on strike so we took a train down because he wanted us kids to have a chance to do that before they were gone.

It was funny how quick things changed because the next time we went down it was on a 727. Never flew another piston engined airliner again. They were kind of neat, the windows were larger and they flew lower. The DC-6 flew a milk run that made a number of stops, and kids would be brought into the cockpit.

IIRC PSA was intrastate only at the time so the CAB had no control over them and they could offer cheaper fares. Southwest started the same way.

[IonImplantGuru]

IIRC PSA was intrastate only at the time so the CAB had no control over them and they could offer cheaper fares. Southwest started the same way.

Wanna weep? $19.95 SFO - LAX, $21.95 SFO - SAN (Diego). That's what I remember from the PSA ads, ca. 1962.

A quick Orbitz peek shows $150 as the cheapest nowadays. On the other hand, gas was 31 cents a gallon back then, so who am I to complain?