American Airlines suspends alcohol sales in cattle class

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Flying in the early days, airlines were in competition with bus and rail service. Bus for local and regional travel, rail for regional and cross country. In order to compete airlines started serving free snacks, meals and drinks. However in the 1960's airlines lobbied congress to exempt airlines from liquor laws, so that alcohol could be sold, under the auspices of controlling the passengers demand for alcohol. As rail service declined, and bus travel got a bad reputation, the airlines decided that they could now start charging for more and more, and introduced additional fees. This also led to airlines to deliberately over book flights in order to meet minimum sales to pay for the cost of that flight. This led to the end of stand-by tickets.
 

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I still have to fly several times a year for work, but I think it is a fair trade for my normal office being feet from my bed. If I had to go to what would be my office, it would either mean moving to Denver or Gillette, WY. I don't mind flying.

The direct flight from Dallas to Hong Kong to visit friends was extremely trying, but really worth it in the end. We are looking to go back in the next year or two and take the kids this time. My daughter was close to their daughter before they moved there several years ago so we would like to show her how Charlie lives now and see some different places.
 

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When I got out of boot camp in San Diego they flew me to the Burbank airport in LA. On the way I had a couple bloody Marys, about one too many. I was pretty loopy when I got off the airplane, mom just laughed. I was still 17 but nobody asked, probably because I was in uniform. This was in 1962 when we were still a free country and California was a pretty cool place to live.
 

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