Difference in flights since the 90's

I’ve heard a piece of paper rolled into a cone works quite as a makeshift speaker! 🙂

I really miss the overhead projectors and/or the TV’s that drop down from the ceiling with the one film on the whole 8hr flight, and normally a lame film because there were kids in the cabin!

Mr Giblets, take a flight on an AA B757-200. You won’t be disappointed.

BA AKL-LHR August 1992/ BA LAX-LHR February 2012 (nearest equivalent): no difference at all – that’s the problem.
Same aircraft; same interiors; same cabin crew (probably)…

I really miss the overhead projectors and/or the TV’s that drop down from the ceiling with the one film on the whole 8hr flight, and normally a lame film because there were kids in the cabin!
The headphones that were plastic pipes, apparently some airlines still have them!

No sweet before my flight ? How dare they ? I am going to complain. Whatever is the world coming to ? 😮

Those items were never free

They were included in the much higher ticket price

There were demand to do away with such thing as you were paying for things you may not need or want

This is what happens now where you pay a basic price and anything extra you buy on the day.

Thank the lord you don’t have to put up with smoking on flights, especially if it’s long haul, who wants to put up with such a vile habit …

Sweets before flights – nice idea but it’s not exactly expensive to buy a pack of mints or something before boarding …

IFE – people make it when there is none because these days they’re iPods or people choose to read a book

In-Flight Meals – not exactly a 5 star Michelin gourmet … people would always complain about flight meals anyway, so they were scrapped when economy changed