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Nothing you've said here would make me want to go back to 1996 and take a flight, granddad.
by simond_d 7y ago
Nothing you've said here would make me want to go back to 1996 and take a flight, granddad.
- scottlocklin 7y agoI guess animals often grow to enjoy their cages; had a pal who kinda freaked out when he got out of the pokey too. Oh yeah: no body cavity searches getting past the gate, we had legroom, free food on the plane, free baggage, and they didn't blare CNN in the airports like some Orwell dystopia, or ads for the airline on the airplane telescreen. The planes were better too; 747 was super common and comfy (now you need to fly the Luftwaffe or British Airways, and the seats aint what they used to be), and if you were loaded, you could take the Concorde across the pond for a price which seems comically cheap these days.
- sirkneeland 7y agoIs it comically cheap if you don't consider inflation? Because while air travel has undoubtedly gotten less comfortable, in most (if not all?) cases it's also gotten cheaper. With every passing decade air travel because accessible to broader and broader swaths of the economic pyramid. Now it's at the point where the cost of the taxi to a London airport can cost more than the airfare of whatever budget airline flight I'd be on. I am [not really] too young to have flown on the Concorde, but a Googling of "Concorde flight cost" suggested between $6000 and $12000 round trip for NYC-LON flights. That doesn't strike me as cheap.
- dzhiurgis 7y agoAir travel definetely got cheaper. As as a software engineer (with a bit for search hacking) I can now afford flying across globe (26 hrs) in business (which used to be first) twice a year.
- simond_d 7y agoSounds like your issues are related to flying in the states? If you're problem with flying today includes cavity searches and being able to hike up prices by trading tickets then you're probably right, best if you don't fly and we'll all be the better off for it. What are you talking about with the concorde flights!? They were a lot more expensive than they are today let alone the prices of a normal carrier flight at the time. When was the last time you flew?
- steelframe 7y agoEverything he said would make me want to take more flights, you child.
- simond_d 7y agoReally? Because many more people fly now than they did in the 90s, must be so horrible for you in this dystopian future we're living in.
- dang 7y agoPlease don't respond to a bad comment by breaking the site guidelines yourself. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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- simond_d 7y agoYou mean the whole 1 comment I ever made before? It's these condescending idiots that bring it out in me.
- dang 7y agoI meant these: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20348725 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20348725 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20348536 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20348536 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20343367 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20343367 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19787124 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19787124
- simond_d 7y agoSo yes. The one other comment I made before. Which was upvoted.