Duncan Frissell writes, apropos my jetsetting post from this morning:
Just to put things in context…. My wife wanted to go to Europe in 1963. Pan Am’s 707 service out of Idlewild (IDL) to London cost about $625 (one way). She went Third Class on the Queen Mary for $125 instead.
To add a bit more context: According to this site, the per capita GDP in 1963 — an admittedly very rough proxy for average personal income, but the best I could find on the spur of the moment — was $3629; in 2002, it was $37,390. The $625 (one-way!) ticket was thus the equivalent of roughly $6500 today.
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