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Vintage American Airlines Ticket Shows How Astronomically Expensive Airfare Used To BeQuoteA vintage American Airlines ticket from New York to St. Louis shows just how expensive airfare used to be...and how great we have it today in an era of cheap airfare.
Vintage American Airlines Ticket Shows How Good We Have It Today When It Comes To Airfare...
Take a look at this vintage paper ticket on American Airlines from New York JFK, still called Idlewild in 1962 to Lambert Field in St. Louis. The round-trip ticket was $118.80. Not bad, right?
Well, consider this was 1962. When adjusted for inflation, that $118.80 in April 1962 is the equivalent of $1,240.32 in November 2024...
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