Remember when people used to dress up to fly…

[A930Rocket]

Remember, when people used to dress up nicely to fly. Obviously, that’s gone down by leaps and bounds.

But this dad dressing his kid up in a flashing light outfit is a new one. Especially, when the cabin lights were turned down.

https://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-advice/flights/childs-outfit-on-plane-sparks-heated-debate/news-story/312f7517ce74df4d0330e45bf8027525

Edit: could there be a medical reason the kid needed the lights? I’m sure there’s a medical reason why epileptics would not want it.

[varmint]

I’m just old enough to remember smoking on planes.

Last flight we were across the aisle from an obese couple coming back from Mexico with matching straw hats that read “I eat ass” in day glow lettering on the bands.

[flatbutt]

When I worked for JnJ I was required to wear jacket and tie on a flight. Heck we weren't even allowed to leave our offices in shirt sleeves. Jackets on in the hall ways and meetings at all times.

[stevej37]

Just before they banned smoking entirely on planes....didn't they have a smoking section in the rear of the planes? I vaguely remember that happening.

[Racerbvd]

Originally Posted by stevej37

Just before they banned smoking entirely on planes....didn't they have a smoking section in the rear of the planes? I vaguely remember that happening.

Yes , they did, funny, because of the ventilation, it shouldn't have been a problem, at least that is what my father use to say. It is truly sad how society has lowered standards, from nice dinner theaters to upper end restaurants, even private clubs .

[john70t]

The father looks surprised and annoyed that someone would take a photograph.

[GH85Carrera]

I vividly remember asking for the non smoking section of the airplane, and the row behind mine was the smoking section. All the smokers were huffing and puffing and blowing the stinky dang smoke right up front. It was like sitting in a bar, it sucked big time. No magic barrier, just the cabin air.

One of my earliest memories was our epic long flight to Hawaii in 1959 in a C-54. 14 hours of unpressurized, 10,000 ft altitude, sitting facing the tail of the airplane. Nothing to see out the windows except endless waves. At one point I asked my mom, "is this where we live now" I seemed like eternity too me. I was a little kid, and it was torture. Dad was in full uniform. Mom was in a fancy dress, gloves, high heels, fancy hat and dressed like she was attending a fancy wedding. We landed in the territory of Hawaii and I was there when it became a state, another early memory.

[wdfifteen]

Originally Posted by Racerbvd

It is truly sad how society has lowered standards, from nice dinner theaters to upper end restaurants, even private clubs .

I agree about the restaurants. But I stopped dressing up to fly after TSA checks got started. I started wearing loafers and sweat pants (no shoe laces and no belt ). Wore a sweat shirt instead of a jacket. It became such a hassle to get undressed and dress at TSA checks I started dressing for convenience.

[cockerpunk]

Originally Posted by Racerbvd

Yes , they did, funny, because of the ventilation, it shouldn't have been a problem, at least that is what my father use to say.

they banned smoking on planes not for health reasons, they banned it for technical reasons.

the cable controls on non-fly by wire aircraft were being gummed by the tar.

smoking was terrible, im so glad its all but died off. what an awful drain on society.




thank god we no longer have to dress up to fly. what a waste. flying sucks, no reason to make it worse.

[red-beard]

I fly a lot. I'm, generally flying first these days. Before COVID, it had become bad. I remarked to a gate agent that it looked like a bus terminal with people wearing clothes with holes in them, sweat pants (not the good kind) and crappy t-shirts.

Since COVID it has gone downhill. I see people wearing pajamas and walking around in flip-flops.

I wear business casual, golf shirt and nice "dockers" with a sport coat. And I generally fly with a small brief case and properly designed (fits correctly in the over head compartment) carry on bag.

It is amazing what people carry with them.

[Seahawk]

Originally Posted by red-beard

It is amazing what people carry with them.

I USED to fly a lot, especially international flights.

20 Mule Trains dragged less stuff onboard than folks on a flight to Japan and beyond...an amazing array of stuff.

[911 Rod]

I thought this thread was going to be about Furries on planes!

[Tim Hancock]

I rarely fly commercial more than a couple times a year any more but when I do it is usually out of Detroit. Sitting at the gate it is like a god damned freak show. My first thoughts are always.... "what in the hell is this world coming to?" Overweight poorly dressed loud trashy slobs seem to be the norm these days.

Then it can get even worse when you take your seat and are unlucky enough to have some big momma or freak show assigned the seat next to you. Civilized society is definitely on a downhill spiral.

[911 Rod]

Would you rather sit beside a big momma or someone smoking?

[Tim Hancock]

Originally Posted by 911 Rod

Would you rather sit beside a big momma or someone smoking?

Probably someone smoking if I had to choose. When I was younger I frequented bars and restaurants that permitted smoking so that does not bother me as much as some big dirty smelly slob spilling over their seat onto me.

[gacook]

Originally Posted by 911 Rod

Would you rather sit beside a big momma or someone smoking?

Both about equally bad to me.

I'm a former smoker...so I don't "care" that people smoke, but the smell really gets to me. Sitting next to an obese person though...is just disgusting.

[cockerpunk]

Originally Posted by Tim Hancock

I rarely fly commercial more than a couple times a year any more but when I do it is usually out of Detroit. Sitting at the gate it is like a god damned freak show. My first thoughts are always.... "what in the hell is this world coming to?" Overweight poorly dressed loud trashy slobs seem to be the norm these days.

Then it can get even worse when you take your seat and are unlucky enough to have some big momma or freak show assigned the seat next to you. Civilized society is definitely on a downhill spiral.

its usually the well dressed karen's that think the world owes them something that ruin flights for me.

no, yelling at the poor gate attendant will not get the aircraft turned around any faster. no, your perfectly bobbed haircut will not get the aircraft to the gate any quicker. no, the fact that you have 3 ****ty children will not change the weather.

behavior, not aesthetics.

and i only ever see such entitlement from those that think dressing better means they are better, or deserve more, than everyone else. it doesnt. entitled people who think their clothes can change the world are the issue. not someone with purple hair in the seat next to you reading a manga.

[mgatepi]

One of my biggest fears in life is sitting on a plane and the big dude comes walking down the aisle and sits next too me.....then the seat belt extender comes out......then the spillage occurs.....you know the spillage, all the fat comes intruding into your seat.

[gacook]

Originally Posted by mgatepi

One of my biggest fears in life is sitting on a plane and the big dude comes walking down the aisle and sits next too me.....then the seat belt extender comes out......then the spillage occurs.....you know the spillage, all the fat comes intruding into your seat.

I'm a big guy (not fat) and I am aware that my shoulders hang out of "my space." If I have to fly coach, I try to make sure I get a window seat so I can lean to the side, against the wall and not encroach on the poor sap in the middle seat. Fat people are just so...oblivious(?) to how much discomfort they cause everybody around them.

My most miserable flight ever, I had the aisle seat near the back of the plane. I do not recall where I was going, but it was for the government. Huge (fat) dude comes walking down the aisle...plops down in the window seat of my row. I'm praying our middle seat is empty and we'll be fine. Couple minutes later, a bigger guy comes walking down the aisle and he's the middle seat passenger. I was literally leaning WAY over into the aisle the entire flight. Flight attendant gave me dirty looks for blocking the path of her cart but there was nothing I could do thanks to the two morbidly obese people they'd stuck next to me.

[Otter74]

When I was a kid we (my family) flew a lot - Venezuela to either Colombia or the US. Flights to Colombia were either Avianca or Aereocondor (when it existed - my grandfather was its head for a while) and flights to the US were on Pan-Am. My dad also flew a lot for work. I've seen some of these old ticket stubs and receipts for Caracas-US flights from the 70s and early 80s, and holy moley were they expensive. Flying may not be exactly fun or glamorous, but I'd rather it be accessible and look at people in sweatpants and sandals or whatever than have it be super expensive and risk not having my taste in clothing (good gracious).

I'm under 50 but can remember when you could smoke on airplanes and it seems absolutely wild, in retrospect, that there was such a thing as smoking and non-smoking sections on the same aircraft.