Originally Posted by
Cofyknsult
You are probably too young to remember Western Airlines, "The Champagne airline", which served "champagne" to all passengers from a nozzle with several buttons on it, the others being Coke, Sprite, Ginger Ale.. You get the idea. Not sure about transcons but they flew LAX/ORD and the such. I'll take your chinese wine any time
I am too (at the slogan), and had a laugh finding this poster, which dates from the mid-70s:
No wonder Champagne (the wine-growing region) went hog wild and successfully got their name protected!
BTW, Western Airlines (WA) was acquired by ("merged with") DL in 1986.