Ah, the golden olden days of air travel!
And you could smoke too!
Posted on 02/01/2021 8:00:32 AM PST by Rummyfan
My old Speccie comrade Toby Young has a nostalgic piece pining for the days of "Mid-Atlantic Man", a coinage of Tom Wolfe for the age when David Frost et al would be jetting back and forth from Heathrow to JFK on the Concorde every week. Toby calls them, rather less glamorously, "Nylons" - as in the boarding pass: "NY-LON." In my Broadway and BBC days, I did it myself for a while, although obviously not at the same dizzying heights as Frostie.
All that's gone now - even if you have your own plane, as a private jet tycoon discussed on last week's Mark Steyn Show. The age of routine international travel is over. It is the paradox of our time: We are governed by globalists and enjoined to "think globally" about Covid and the climate, but the governed never get to see the globe. And by "globe" I mean small rain-sodden island: After spending four years insisting that an open border in Ireland was the absolute most critical element of any Brexit deal, last week the EU unilaterally imposed a "hard border" on the island without even notifying governments in Dublin or London - on the pretext of preventing ChiCom-19 vaccines down south winding up in Belfast and Derry.
For what it's worth, I have never traveled less than in the last year - and by "travel" I mean driving half-an-hour north to have lunch in Quebec. If I attempted it, lunch would cost me two thousand bucks.
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Ah, the golden olden days of air travel!
And you could smoke too!
Think Global - Act Loco
Continental Airlines; We really move our tail for you!
Maybe they will bring back bubble helmets.
https://www.cntraveler.com/story/inside-the-sisterhood-of-braniff-flight-attendants
Most of the Stews did too.
There were no males, not even males that liked each other, and most old or fat stews were pushed out {too bad for them}.
Before deregulation, the prices were high, the service was terrific, there were very few cattle car runs, and the business traveler was KING.
Things change.
Don’t forget, we’re not supposed to have fun anymore. It’s threatening to Big Brother.
Well, unless you’re one of the ruling caste, in which case any immoral, illegal or depraved type of fun you want is spread out before you.
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