Sad end of an airline amenity

[Cherokee_Cruiser]

As a kid I was a nerd about the inflight magazine. The route maps and fleet info were my favorite pages, followed by the food/drink pages. I would always take the complimentary copy home, and it became a memento for that trip.

As the pandemic started, everyone started ditching this common touch item. My shop was gone quickly and never brought it back. Same with Delta. AA hung on a bit, but gone. And now, the last remaining United Hemisphere magazine will be no more.

A sad end to a wonderful amenity post pandemic. RIP inflight magazines in this country. You brought joy to a kid and added to his collection of aviation stuff.

United Airlines Axes Hemisphere Inflight Magazine, The End Of "Three Perfect Days" - View from the Wing

Delta's outsourced Sky magazine laid off all its staff at the start of the pandemic. American, which outsourced American Way starting with US Airways management's takeover in 2015, followed suit a year later despite The Onion once suggesting that the airline stop flying passengers to focus on...

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[Bob Ridpath]

As a kid I was a nerd about the inflight magazine. The route maps and fleet info were my favorite pages, followed by the food/drink pages. I would always take the complimentary copy home, and it became a memento for that trip.

As the pandemic started, everyone started ditching this common touch item. My shop was gone quickly and never brought it back. Same with Delta. AA hung on a bit, but gone. And now, the last remaining United Hemisphere magazine will be no more.

A sad end to a wonderful amenity post pandemic. RIP inflight magazines in this country. You brought joy to a kid and added to his collection of aviation stuff.

United Airlines Axes Hemisphere Inflight Magazine, The End Of "Three Perfect Days" - View from the Wing

Delta's outsourced Sky magazine laid off all its staff at the start of the pandemic. American, which outsourced American Way starting with US Airways management's takeover in 2015, followed suit a year later despite The Onion once suggesting that the airline stop flying passengers to focus on...

viewfromthewing.com

Agreed, 100%.

 

[Murdoughnut]

This will kill the busy professional matchmaker industry!

 

[BEEF SUPREME]

Does SWA still have the "Mall" magazine with the dental ads and other oddities?

 

[derg]

How will I find The Best Doctors in Atlanta?”, with pen in-hand?

One of the best features of ours was some of the destination dining recommendations by flight crew.

 

[Murdoughnut]

How will I find The Best Doctors in Atlanta?”, with pen in-hand?

One of the best features of ours was some of the destination dining recommendations by flight crew.

I really liked reading the crew profiles they put into UA's

 

[BobDDuck]

Hawaiian still has Hana Hou.

 

[zmiller4]

This will kill the busy professional matchmaker industry!

Where is Dr Chester Karrass going to advertise his negotiating seminars now? And how will I know what the top ten overpriced bland steakhouses in Dallas and Phoenix are?

 

[ERfly]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3x6W1-LdCvc

 

[knot4u]

When else would buying a 7' velociraptor figurine while drinking a Bloody Mary make sense? And you haven't even gotten to Maui yet? This vacation is going to be awesome!

 

[invadertim]

Bundles of them made good ballast on occasion too.

 

[Kingairer]

The route map was my “go to”. I can’t even find where all my airline goes now. If you get nostalgic try routemaps

 

[Minuteman]

They kept the Twitter bird, they're good.

 

[FlyChicaga]

I think magazines as a whole are slowly dying off. Just as newspapers have.

 

[invadertim]

I think magazines as a whole are slowly dying off. Just as newspapers have.

Yeah, I read a bunch of hobby stuff, gamer/model train/machining geek stuff. Its all going to be totally online or simply gone by 2030 I think. All the model airplane magazines I used to love as a kid have dried up, save Model Aviation, and its been thicker in the past. Books themselves are headed that way too. I'll miss them when they're gone.

 

[Burrito]

Yeah, I read a bunch of hobby stuff, gamer/model train/machining geek stuff. Its all going to be totally online or simply gone by 2030 I think. All the model airplane magazines I used to love as a kid have dried up, save Model Aviation, and its been thicker in the past. Books themselves are headed that way too. I'll miss them when they're gone.

Trains Magazine I know is still floating around - and I think Model Railroader is still sending out monthlies. They're still good.

 

[derg]

JC got its first big boost in the early days when it was featured in some sort of ‘pilots who blog’ in USAir’s inflight magazine. It was before I had a domain name.

Enough of a boost I got a nastygram from Mindspring about traffic and I really didn’t have a clue what they were talking about.

 

[ChasenSFO]

I think magazines as a whole are slowly dying off. Just as newspapers have.

Almost every last aviation magazine has either gone under or is now 50%+ ads with few exceptions. Too bad, used to be very cool to get photos published now there's almost no one left to publish them.

I've actually read a lot of good articles in Hemispheres and I'd steal one every few years for the fleet and route map stuff in the back.

 

[derg]

If you guys really want to play “remember when”, well, remember when people would get on an airplane and actually look out of the window, rarely closing the shades?

 

[mwflyer]

If you guys really want to play “remember when”, well, remember when people would get on an airplane and actually look out of the window, rarely closing the shades?

Man. It’s insane the way people keep all the shades down now. I guess people only book window seats to sleep against.