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Originally Posted by stevepaa
The prime rib was cooked on board and sliced individually. Linen and silverware and real glassware.
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Then in 1979 the industry was deregulated and the Gordon Gekkos from Wall Street moved in and sucked-out all that high-cost service-with-a-smile. Glamour costs money and there's no reason after 1979 to spend all that money making air travel "glamourous." Low Cost has been the Holy Grail since 1979 and that's why service is often lean and mean and crabby and pushy and no more coats and ties and no more prime rib. The prime rib moved over to Mr. Gekko's Gulfstream V where it belongs. The GV he bought with a fraction of the windfall he got from gutting the airline industry. Farewell "friendly skies," hello Low Cost.