Originally Posted by
fastair
But in those day your IFE was a pneumatic tube with at best, a pull down single screen in the center of the cabin.
And today you have "dark birds" that don't even have pneumatic tubes or pulldown screens. My how UAL has progressed in 30 years!
Originally Posted by
fastair
Your seat reclined maybe 30 degrees, with no foot rest and limited space. Yet those are the "glory days". The glory days weren't so glorious.
Yes they were. I remember the early 90s barcalounger F seats on United. They were just fine. Who wants to lie flat when you have them bringing around the Beluga Caviar and Dom Perignon nonstop? Oh, and treating you like a human being.
Originally Posted by
fastair
They had better food and shorter skirts with younger flight attendants. That's really the only better thing.
When you have those, the other stuff isn't so important.
I don't know how they did it, but they did prepare my steaks as desired. A few times I had them cook it some more, since I like medium well. No problem. Same on Lufthansa more recently.