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The Cost of a Cross-Country American Airlines Ticket in 1964

August 17, 2011 at 3:53 PM | by | Comments (3)

Our love for artifacts of retro travel isn't exactly a secret, and we recently scored a vintage American Airlines pamphlet advertising trips to the World's Fair of 1964 in New York City.

This is the famous World's Fair that gave us the now-dilapidated fantasy structures that dot Corona Park in Flushing, Queens, and which exalted the advances of space travel. It was a fair people traveled to by airplane, and a jaunt from the west coast to the east coast for the event could be a family's big trip.

Doing a modern airfare search on Hipmunk.com (because it's their first birthday, yay!), we found the same roundtrips between LA and NYC for $278 on AirTran, or $319 if you're deadset on flying American Airlines. So in the last fifty years, the price of a cross-country flight has only gone up $133-ish. It's nearly doubled, but when you consider the higher incomes and better airplanes and airports, we're really on the winning end of this.

Now you know what we'll be giving thanks for at the dinner table come November Thanksgiving.

For more like this, check out our series on American Airlines in 1959.

[Scans: Jaunted]

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interesting

From our inbox: "Adjusting for inflation, that $145.10 fare would be $1052 today, so that's quite a bit more expensive in relative terms." Insane. Thanks for the info, Kris!
JetSetCD on August 17, 2011 at 6:55 PM #Permalink

Hmm.

What exactly is the flight attendant doing to that girl's head?
Flyered on August 25, 2011 at 1:03 PM #Permalink

ha

That arm coming down from the top of the girl's seat is way creepy, huh? I love it when you pop up on here, Flyered!
JetSetCD on August 26, 2011 at 12:27 PM #Permalink

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