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		eleveriven 6 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why hasn't commercial air travel gotten any faster... Yep, speed is a luxury, but affordability and safety are necessities

psytrancefan 6 months ago [–]

We take the affordability completely for granted also.

It looks like in the 70s a flight from NY to LA was $1000 USD adjusted for inflation.

My grandfather took a flight one time in his life, near the end of his life. Why? Because most of his life he couldn't afford it.

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