Except when you are really young, the trip will be totally different 30 years, 20 years old, it will only remember being 10 years ago. Like all other industries, tourism and travel have changed with technology, gadgets and global events. Are you ready to walk a memory lane? Then read!
Air travel in the 1980's
Perhaps the most important event in the decade was the deregulation of the airline and opened an average consumer plane on price and availability. As the flight has increased, the airline has launched its first flyer program.
Many airports did not take appropriate safety measures to accommodate an increasing number of leaflets. Even at some airports, including airports in metropolitan areas, passengers boarded the plane directly from the runway.
The computerized reservation system used by travel agencies was a new form of technology just emerging in the late 1970s. In this era, consumers relied on travel agencies to travel. There was no website.
Southwest Airlines, once a small airline in Texas, expanded to national level and soon became a favorite airline for many consumers and businessmen for low cost fares.
Airline passengers and their baggage were judged, but provided by private contractors, in most cases it was a quick, easy and painless procedure.
Films of video cassettes were first seen as in-flight entertainment by some airlines. In 1985 the first audio player system was installed.
1990's
The airline trip continued to take off. At the beginning of the decade, more Americans flooded the plane than they owned a car!
For the past 10 years, mobile phones were forbidden to be used on airplanes (Naturally, nobody owned a mobile phone.
Pan American was folded under the weight of bankruptcy in the early decades after the iconic company of the airline had traveled.
The new Denver International Airport was finally completed in 1995 after many accidents that wondered whether the land was cursed or not. It features remote areas, unique architecture, automatic baggage handling system, and the largest area in square miles, with the largest non-on-site parking lot in the USA.
Southwest Airlines became one of the first airlines that Internet users posted a website that allows them to check their flight schedule and route, but they were not able to book their flights yet. Although the initial online purchase of that ticket is not precisely known, since in 1996 Travelocity always provided online booking, Priceline and Expedia became a major travel agency by 1999 .
Singapore Airlines was the first company to offer in-flight telephone service using "KrisFone".
21st Century
Due to terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, the government took over the airport screening process, restricted the types of materials that can be purchased on board, and requested government issued ID for boarding.
Concorde, formerly known as the luxurious trans-Atlantic airport, jumped over the last sky of 2003. Regarding size, it was replaced by A 380. A 380 can accommodate 800 passengers. history. Singapore Airlines flew 1,000 flights using A 380 during the first year aircraft were used commercially. In the United States, New York 's JFK airport received the A380 landing for the first time in 2007.
In 2004, Lufthansa was the first airline to provide in-flight Internet access using satellite connections.
The first cell phone was used during flights on international flights in 2008. In the US, the green light is waiting to use the onboard mobile phone. While you can not use mobile phones during flight, you can use mobile phones to find delays on the departure date, make reservation changes, or find things to do near the destination.
Air travel has obviously changed significantly in the past 30 years. Who knows the future results at the speed that technology is currently changing?
