The new normal

Incognito agent 007

 

Especially if layovers are involved. The company i worked for in the oilfield would book you a flight with 2-3 layovers cheap as possible. Make it an all day affair flying back from Texas or ND.

 

One day maybe I will get a chance to fly in an A-380 that goes close to the North Pole. An Internet penpal I have known for years is a Systems Engineer based in Sydney and sometimes his job requires him to make such a flight. He has actually flown the route being shown in the below clip.

 

If I remember correctly right after the 777 came out Delta bought several and used them for their Atlanta service to London's Gatwick Airport. I do not know if they are still flying there.

 

I prefer foreign airlines. Old common person like me gets treated with respect. I use Hainan Airlines now; straight shot from Las Vegas to Beijing.

 

Old guy speaking here, at 65 years old.

My dad was a mechanic at United Airlines when I was young(er).
With his seniority we had unlimited passes. At some point it cost us an extra ten bucks to travel first class.

Those were the days that flying actually meant something.
You got dressed up, and were respectful.

Hawaii one a month or so, and not many weekends absent from flying somewhere.
Both dad and mom are buried at Punchbowl.
Dad was a Pearl Harbor survivor.
We would fly to locations that I was studying in school, just so I could get a more first hand experience.
Liberty Bell, Constitution? Let's go to Philly to check it out.
Let's go to Boston for all that cool stuff.
There is (or was, since I don't know if it still there) a world globe that you could walk into and see it all from the inside.

I even managed to get on the inaugural nonstop flight from the east coast to Hawaii.

Flying back then was a whole other experience than it is these days.
It was special back then, and people respected it.