Could You Afford To Fly In The "Golden Age?"

Trip7 said:
You could fly once every 3-5 years and you're OK with that if it meant going back to the golden age? Please tell me you're joking. The industry is the best right now but by no means is everybody miserable. Just the 2%(probably less) of pilots that post rants on internet boards are miserable.
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Hey bud, everyones got a right to their opinion.
 
Douglas said:
From what I have been told, airline prices have stayed remarkably in the same price tag range ever since pax service has been around.
It cost you the same number of dollars to fly from here to chicago then in the ford tri-motor as it does now in a 757.
I really don't know of, or can think of any industry that has kept the same price tag on a product which has forced companies to rely on technology to eek out the profit margins.

Maybe the 1 cent tootsie roll is in that category too, but that is it.
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That makes sense because a Ford Tri-motor hold alot less people than a 757. You can fly Atlanta to Los Angeles ALOT cheaper in a 767 than Atlanta to Hilton Head, SC in the SAAB
 
We flew that route on our airline as an EAS route. There was seldom more than one person on the entire roundtrip flight. It was cancelled in 2004.
 
Doug Taylor said:
When I was a kid, I'd fly from Visalia, CA to Fresno, CA and it was about $300. Maybe the late 1970s?
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$300 just to go Visalia to Fresno or were you connecting along to somewhere else? I did that a few times as a new F/O. Maybe a 10 minute flight vs. 30 minutes in a car. Only flew a couple of thousand feet AGL too.



I probably would have only been able to travel on rare occasions, if at all, back in the Golden age as you call it.
 
ChasenSFO said:
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VIS-FAT isn't so crazy, I mean we did ONT-LAX and for years and years until recently, and at one point I think there was LAX-SNA too, but that might have been Westair.
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We did LAX to SNA up til a couple of years ago. Nearly everytime I did that flight it was full or close to full. Same with ONT to LAX. I'm not sure why United dropped them. Those were busy flights, you barely had anytime to catch your breath between takeoff and landing.
 
Lee D said:
We did LAX to SNA up til a couple of years ago. Nearly everytime I did that flight it was full or close to full. Same with ONT to LAX. I'm not sure why United dropped them. Those were busy flights, you barely had anytime to catch your breath between takeoff and landing.
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Wanna know the story behind it? I guarantee you hardly anyone with less than a UA Premier status was on those flights. Once a person has flown at least 30 segments on UA or its partners in one year or 30k miles, they become a Premier. One of the biggest perks is any flight under 500 miles counts in your miles bank as 500 miles. So lets say you live 20 minutes from LAX and about an hour from ONT, you want to go to SFO. You may drive to ONT anyway to do ONT-LAX-SFO because doing so will give you twice as many miles and cost about the same, if not less. When I first started, there were always 15 or so people on any given ONT flight going on to LAX. But United caught on and considered this "cheating the system" which is part of the reason the flights are gone.
 
ChasenSFO said:
Wanna know the story behind it? I guarantee you hardly anyone with less than a UA Premier status was on those flights. Once a person has flown at least 30 segments on UA or its partners in one year or 30k miles, they become a Premier. One of the biggest perks is any flight under 500 miles counts in your miles bank as 500 miles. So lets say you live 20 minutes from LAX and about an hour from ONT, you want to go to SFO. You may drive to ONT anyway to do ONT-LAX-SFO because doing so will give you twice as many miles and cost about the same, if not less. When I first started, there were always 15 or so people on any given ONT flight going on to LAX. But United caught on and considered this "cheating the system" which is part of the reason the flights are gone.
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Interesting. I would not have thought of that.
 
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