Flying used to be this magical, miraculous thing!

_number8_@lemmy.world to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world – 84 points –

these guys used to be daring adventurers with goggles and swag and now the pilots have to wear a button down and the airlines squeeze every penny out of you and every drop of fun or joy or magic or adventure out of the experience.

in the 20s it was a great adventure! in the 60s people wore suits and got proper meals! now we just get xrayed and told we can't bring in water! i love starting my vacation being treated as a terrorist!

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The airlines were deregulated in the late 70s. This meant they could compete on price, instead of just differentiating through features. It’s been going downhill ever since.

Flying is also dramatically cheaper and more accessible today than it used to be.

If you want the fancy treatment from back then, pay the prices people paid back then and buy first class.

I wish I could of tried a plane in those days

I don't. Every change in FAA safety regulations since then has been paid for in blood. The fatality rate per 100,000 flight hours was about 5x higher in 1970.

Does 5x higher means it's much? Because today's plan is the safest way to travel.

So would multiplying the risk by 5 make it more unsafe than cars for example?

Because we do use cars a lot, more than we should, just because we like it. And the fatality rate is pretty high.

I think I actually understated how much more dangerous it was then because the chart I was looking at stopped a couple of decades ago. I found a more recent study and it's more like 1 death per 7.9 million boardings currently, versus 1 death per 350,000 boardings (!) from 1968-1977.

Nice, i'm not surprised but it's still hella impressive. Aeronautics is truly outstanding engineering nowadays.

Still i think i would definitively take the risk to try a 70' plane once, for the experience. Like i said it would probably be way safer than regularly using a car. But i get your point, it really was different back then.

Same 70's era flying sounds nice, less like packing people into sardine cans

I simply of to point out that you of used the wrong word there. You of to realise that doing so can of the effect have making you look very ignorant