[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.