Personnally, I would prefer that the introduction scenario format was retained; it offers a glimpse of a life that I was never fortunate to experience but as a child of the 60s and 70s, I can appreciate.

My own personal memories of my early flights are on charter airlines like Britannia Airways, which was an all economy (coach) layout but everyone got served a meal tray with little Melamine dishes and plastic cutlery; very basic but all very exciting for a young lad mad keen on aeroplanes.

Listening to the roar of the Boeing 737-200 Pratt & Witney JT8D engines as you popped open the plastic wrapper on your bread roll doesn’t have the same elegance as some of your scenes but it’s a memory which I look back on with much fondness.

Even economy flights in the 1990s in the UK and Europe were served a complimentary meal and drinks and I lament the arrival of the Low Cost operators for the fact that airlines now have to dumb down their offerings in order to compete with them. I appreciate that LCCs have allowed the opening of new routes and the availability of affordable travel for the masses and I have flown with some of those airlines too but I just miss those days where flying was a more comfortable and enjoyable experience.

I don’t really understand the attitude of “I don’t care how uncomfortable or bad the flight is, I just want it to be cheap”; as they say in the military, any fool can be uncomfortable. I will endure a Y flight up to about 90 minutes duration but I won’t like it.

Thank you for a very enjoyable thread.