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"Gogarty" wrote in message
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Wife and I have flown around the world a couple of times mostly on Pan Am's
Flight 1 and 2 but with side trips on local carriers. What a marvelous
feeling it was to be at the airport in New Delhi and see that big blue and
white plane come in and know we were home though still a zillion miles from
home. Wife used to carry knitting needles, scissors, ect., and do alot of
needlepoint and knitting along the way. Always a good conversation maker
with crew and other passengers. But that was all pre-9/11. We don't do that
anymore.

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You can still bring knitting needles and crochet hooks aboard and small
scissors. My wife brought Crochet along on this trip. Takes her knitting
on a lot of trips also. Pan Am was good airline to fly most of the time. I
used to take a Pan Am 747 SP to Hong Kong, business class during the 80's.
First trip was only 125 on board plane and I went back to coach and had 5
seats across to take about a 7 hour sleep on the trip. Problem these days
is they have jacked the Business class price absurdly! Used to be an about
50% kicker. Now a 4+ times kicker. We could upgrade our $1780 coach ticket
to Business for an extra $5800.

Flew coach to China 4 or 5 years ago. What a miserable experience, worse
than any domestic flight I ever took and not because of the length.
Completely full, and airlines have cheapened everything down, so here we
are on this forever flight, packed to the gills with people some of whom
had questionable hygiene habits. Loud, cramped, smelly, many drunks.