Discussion Traveling Experience during the Golden Travel Age

What do we imagine when we think about traveling 50 years ago? We think about a colorful and memorable travel experience. However, the reality was quite different.

Costly

The first and most important difference between flying today and the Golden Age of Flying is that traveling was costly. At present, traveling is quite cheap because of the presence of low-cost airline. In contrast, the same cannot be said about the 1950s because the cost for every ticket was very high. And in the 1950s, an average person would pay up to almost five percent of his annual salary for flying across a specific area.

In the Golden Age, it was approximately five times as costly to fly. And for a secretary, a short flight might have cost the salary of a month. It was indeed very tough to fly and have an affordable experience.

Dangerous and Scary

And what did you even get after paying such amount to fly? Just a greater chance of dying due to an accident. It is not uncommon information that air carriers during the Golden Age were not safe to travel on. In fact, there was always a risk of accident. These days, you don’t need to worry about safety. Mostly, it is due to advancements in technology.

Boring

Once you don’t find anything interesting out of the window, you will find yourself drowning in your boredom. After all, there is nothing to do but just sit in a droning metal tube for a lot of time. Today, there is no need for such a thing. In fact, there are a lot of options which we can consider to occupy ourselves. For instance, at least we have our smartphones or laptops to occupy us when we don’t have anything else to do.