>To fly on an airplane, you just had to walk through a metal detector, and if someone was there to meet you or say goodbye, they could go all the way to the gat

>To fly on an airplane, you just had to walk through a metal detector, and if someone was there to meet you or say goodbye, they could go all the way to the gate without a ticket. >If a flight was longer than a couple hours, you got a free meal, sometimes two, and it wasn't bad. Still largely true in Australia.