Growing up in Vermont in the 50s, we kids stopped our ballgames to watch the Colonial Airlines DC-3s fly in and out of Rutland Airport.

When I lived in Alaska for a year in the mid-60s, I remember seeing Pacific Northern's connies at Anchorage International Airport.

I once flew my family of four between Newark and Norfolk for a grand total of $200 round-trip ($25 per person, per segment).

I sat next to a very chatty member of the House of Lords between London and JFK on the Laker Skytrain years ago. We bonded while watching Neil Diamond in, I believe, "Coming to America".

Does anyone remember the airline that flew briefly between JFK and Manchester, England, in the late 1980s? The airline had a Scottish-sounding name that I can't recall.

Ah, how I love commercial aviation nostalgia!