<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by PresRDC:
These are just great. My 10th Grade English teacher gave me abunch of first class menus he collected from the late 1970s and 1980s. I will dig them out and post some.
I too would love to see pricing information for these flights. Adjusted for inflation, I would suspect they were quite expensive. I could be wrong.
I have on my wall three original ads for Pan Am's 707 service to Europe from the late 1950s. They were advertising economy fares starting at $600. Many would consider this expensive today. I could only imagine what it must have been in 1950s dollars.
As much as we lament the decline of service standards, we shoudl keep in mind just how expensive these tickets were. Also, there was no elite status, so, I presume, no complimentary upgrades of F awards. </font>
I read that a first class one-way ticket on Pan Am's first ever 747 service in 1970 (JFK-LHR) cost only $375 (1970s dollars).
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