More room - seat width and pitch. Able to arrive at the airport 20 minutes before your flight and still make it. Carrying around a
Travel Organizer with paper tickets, frequent traveler cards, etc.
Up front - salad cart, ice cream sundae cart - both made to order by your seat.
People Express seat selection - getting to the gate and looking at the mock-up of the cabin with little stickers for the seats, selecting the seat you wanted, and the agent pulling off the sticker and attaching it to your ticket. And flying home on People Express from college for $19 one-way.
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NYCommuter
There were smoking sections on planes. If you didn't like cigarette smoke, even if you weren't in a smoking section, too bad!
I remember flying to Cancun, up front, and being asked whether we wanted smoking or non-smoking. Knowing there were only 2 rows, with 2 seats on each side, we took smoking, assuring there would be no smoking on at least our half of the cabin.