I still remember going to the travel agent with my mom to buy airplane tickets. It involved putting a little kid in and out of a car and took long enough that I was reduced to playing with the cardboard palm tree cutouts in the window. And then you got a paper ticket, which was once forgotten at my grandparents house and only remembered …
I still remember going to the travel agent with my mom to buy airplane tickets. It involved putting a little kid in and out of a car and took long enough that I was reduced to playing with the cardboard palm tree cutouts in the window. And then you got a paper ticket, which was once forgotten at my grandparents house and only remembered at the airport after a 2hr drive through California traffic.
I for one appreciate that in modern American life I can buy a ticket on my phone while nursing my baby, decide whether to pay for bags and show up at the airport with only my driver's license.
And anyway, it's way harder to mentally juggle different prices for different flight times/durations than added fees for seats and bags and the like which are pretty fixed.
I still remember going to the travel agent with my mom to buy airplane tickets. It involved putting a little kid in and out of a car and took long enough that I was reduced to playing with the cardboard palm tree cutouts in the window. And then you got a paper ticket, which was once forgotten at my grandparents house and only remembered at the airport after a 2hr drive through California traffic.
I for one appreciate that in modern American life I can buy a ticket on my phone while nursing my baby, decide whether to pay for bags and show up at the airport with only my driver's license.
And anyway, it's way harder to mentally juggle different prices for different flight times/durations than added fees for seats and bags and the like which are pretty fixed.