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Old Dec 12, 2019, 8:32 pm
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Originally Posted by xzh445
AWESOME earbuds rankourabu. !!!
(as I recall) there were two pronged jack in the armrests. Speaker(s) behind the jacks. Those little tubes literally “piped” the music up to the ear pieces. (Think stethoscope)
I believe the later ones were all black? I remember needing to pay for them as the FA went around distributing them. You also got a paper receipt for payment.

Speaking of another tradition that's pretty much gone domestically-- offering newspapers or magazines for reading in flight.

ETA: found one of the receipts
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