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Nov 4, 2018, 1:53 pm

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Originally Posted by jdrtravel

This was all of the legacy carriers at that point, right? Maybe CO was a little nicer on board, but not much. And I don't think in-flight Wifi had been invented. Some carriers had leather seats, but I remember that mostly being newer LCC's like Jet Blue. One of the reasons that the legacy carriers needed to merge is that they were not making enough money to make significant capital investments while they were continually having fare wars with each other.

In 2006-2008 when I was flying Northwest United had audio entertainment on their entire mainline fleet and video on everything but the 737s, American had audio and video on everything but their MD-80s, Continental had audio and video and debuted DirecTV in 2008. Frontier even had DirecTV. The Northwest seat were something in a class of their own in terms of their shabbiness

This was an A-319 pictured in 2006

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