An Airplane Trip by Jet

Real meals! Plenty of leg room! A separate lounge in the front of the plane! What weird alternate world is this?!?

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Posted By: Paul - Wed Jun 15, 2016
Category: Air Travel and Airlines | 1960s

Comments

That's the alternate reality that would have happened in a true market-driven airline industry, before the airlines all got to sucking on the teat of government subsidies.

Posted by A Nonny Mouse on 06/15/16 at 09:23 AM

The in-flight pictures look just like the Twilight Zone episode of the plane that got lost in time over NY City. They're probably still up there.

Posted by Virtual on 06/15/16 at 12:20 PM

That was a Boeing 707 in "The Odyssey of Flight 33"

Posted by joe thatis on 06/15/16 at 01:39 PM

Mouse: erm... you sure? You really, really sure? Only, the most luxurious airlines are ones like Singapore and Etihad, sponsored by rich governments, while the true, very market-driven industry has given us beauties like Ryanair and EasyJet, which at one point was planning to introduce a charge for the in-flight toilet.

Posted by Richard Bos on 06/17/16 at 09:59 AM

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