Were The Early 80's Really That Much Better On UA Than Now?
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Goofy video from United for their inaugural 777 flight:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVGXCtHg4lo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVGXCtHg4lo
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Anyone else remember getting to the gate early so you could ask the agent for your seats which were on a board behing the counter and they would actually pull the seat number/sticker off the paper layout and stick it on your paper ticket? Or, the monthly OAG subscription that you used to find flights...a 4x9 booklet that came in the mail for the traveler.and a larger version in the office? There was no internet, only the OAG guide or the telephone.
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Anyone else remember getting to the gate early so you could ask the agent for your seats which were on a board behing the counter and they would actually pull the seat number/sticker off the paper layout and stick it on your paper ticket? Or, the monthly OAG subscription that you used to find flights...a 4x9 booklet that came in the mail for the traveler.and a larger version in the office? There was no internet, only the OAG guide or the telephone.
I don’t remember getting seat stickers on an airport boarding pass, but one of the Macau / HK ferry companies was still using that system as of last year (and probably is still today).
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...It was 1995. Only maybe a Sega Game Gear would be better for pixel quality (big maybe). And even CO / AA / DL / US were several years off from offering anything like that in coach. NW had an even more primitive system launched in the early 1990s as a test and didn't stick for implementation.
But damn, the gate areas at LHR looked like garbage back then. I would've been more than happy to board that plane by comparison. IIRC, LHR-EWR was one of the first 777 routes on legacy UAL.
But damn, the gate areas at LHR looked like garbage back then. I would've been more than happy to board that plane by comparison. IIRC, LHR-EWR was one of the first 777 routes on legacy UAL.
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If I recall correctly, into the 90s on WN I don't think they gave out the laminated "boarding pass" at the ticket counter, so after lining up to check bags you lined up again at the gate to get the boarding card, then lined up again at the A/B/C signs since there was no distinction between the numbers within each group, just first-lined-up-first-served. I didn't fly them much in that era (no presence transcon yet), but I recall seeing people camped out both for the gate agent to show up 1hr before flight time and then again with all their stuff in the boarding line.
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...It was 1995. Only maybe a Sega Game Gear would be better for pixel quality (big maybe). And even CO / AA / DL / US were several years off from offering anything like that in coach. NW had an even more primitive system launched in the early 1990s as a test and didn't stick for implementation.
But damn, the gate areas at LHR looked like garbage back then. I would've been more than happy to board that plane by comparison. IIRC, LHR-EWR was one of the first 777 routes on legacy UAL.
But damn, the gate areas at LHR looked like garbage back then. I would've been more than happy to board that plane by comparison. IIRC, LHR-EWR was one of the first 777 routes on legacy UAL.
I do know several airlines had the flip-up screens in F or J by then. But it was very rare in coach.
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...It was 1995. Only maybe a Sega Game Gear would be better for pixel quality (big maybe). And even CO / AA / DL / US were several years off from offering anything like that in coach. NW had an even more primitive system launched in the early 1990s as a test and didn't stick for implementation.
But damn, the gate areas at LHR looked like garbage back then. I would've been more than happy to board that plane by comparison. IIRC, LHR-EWR was one of the first 777 routes on legacy UAL.
But damn, the gate areas at LHR looked like garbage back then. I would've been more than happy to board that plane by comparison. IIRC, LHR-EWR was one of the first 777 routes on legacy UAL.
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Yeah, I flew out of it for the first time in several months on Tuesday and was very impressed. However I'd stick pick the old and dirty T1 over pvg any day. In fact I just arrived at PVG S1 this afternoon and it took nearly an hour for me to get outside.
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Yes of course, but the thread title refers to the early 1980s (post-deregulation).
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IIRC, it was 6x AA batteries that fueled Game Gear. Battery life was awful. I do remember flying EWR-SAN on CO in 1996 and carrying it with me and it lasted perhaps 40 minutes after being fully charged. Then I got violently ill on board contracting a stomach bug or something on the 6+ hour flight. It was miserable. One cool thing is CO had screens implanted in the middle seats to buy stuff and I remember buying a CO model with my parent's Credit Card but it was forever on back order and eventually cancelled. IIRC, America West had the same system but it was only for sales of products in the middle seats on the 757. No programming available other than sales. They screened "Get Shorty" on the overhead LCD's but I wasn't allowed to watch it, but later became one of my favorite movies by middle school haha.
If anything, AA should probably get the initial credit for best PTV's in coach at the time as all programming were on 15 minute loops. That same system lasted until very recently on the 777s.
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Didnt UA/CO have those old mounted TVs on their 757s well into the 2010s? And who can forget the UA 747s with big screen TVs well into the 2010s as well!
I didnt have a chance to fly much when these were around, although I do remember them from one LO flight in maybe 2008 on a beat up 767-200.
Any older FTers want to remind us what these were all about?
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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)
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