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Old Oct 10, 2006 | 11:11 pm
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Originally Posted by UNITED959
Supersonic transport - gone.
Inflight Internet - adiós.
Inflight Telephone Service - byebye.

Now, the meals and declining service levels due to financial constraints aside, are we losing progress and achievement when viewing what air travel once was, to what it is now?
Without even adjusting for inflation, fares are a fraction of what they were just 10 years ago.

Want premiums? First Class isn't that expensive, inflation adjusted.
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