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Re:The Disappearance of the Ashtray by sidewndr46 on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @05:09PM (#34511251)
You're confusing "air travel" with "jet travel". Jet travel was obviously a startup in the 60s.
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Re:The Disappearance of the Ashtray by oblio on Wednesday January 25, 2023 @04:53AM (#34516471)
No, he's right. Air travel was a luxury thing and super expensive until the 60s.

Only a very small percentage of the population in rich countries would do it.

Now people from Cambodia can fly for a large amount of money for them, but still, they are able to. In the past they just wouldn't be able to afford any kind of flight. Or even worse, they just wouldn't have flights or a publicly accessible airport.

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