"Mortimer Schnerd, RN" wrote in message
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Jay Honeck wrote:
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.


I have an old friend who was flying on Aeroflot with his family many years
ago (before the fall of the Soviet Union). I guess they used any
opportunity to hone their skills because the pilot started doing some
airwork along the way... s-turns along a road, etc....

I've never experienced such a thing on an American airliner.

I remember a story years ago about how is was not unusual to have livestock
in the cabin on domestic flights in the old USSR.

Now let me just say I have seen animals onboard airliners...