Well said Jay, a lot of us have been there and done that back in the days
that commercial flying was a sheer pleasure.
You should start a new thread on "In the good old days" and they were only a
few short years ago in many parts of the world.
Roy


"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
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I've always wondered... Why is it, everytime we jump on an airline,
for even a short one or two hour hop to a fairly close destination, we
are suddenly starving???

In my case, it's because as a boy I was spoiled by flying on a Boeing 707
back in the early 1960s.

If I close my eyes I can still see it. Beautiful and friendly
stewardesses wearing Jackie Kennedy pillbox hats, white gloves, and
serving real cuisine on actual china plates, with real SILVER silverware.
The gray-haired captain sitting in his cockpit like a modern-day god, door
wide open, telling the flight engineer to step aside and let me through to
see all the instruments...

So, on the exceedingly rare occasions when I must suffer in the executive
mail tube, I start to salivate at the memory -- only to be handed some
triscuits...

I managed to catch the tail end of elegant train travel at that age, too.
When you contrast those days with the Russian Aeroflot model we've come to
emulate (just think -- we used to make fun of them!) since then, it is to
weep.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"