Air travel, then and now
May 21, 2008 | 3:41
pm
Get ready to pay fifteen bucks to check a bag on American Airlines as the carrier deals with market forces that have the entire industry in a tailspin. (Next thing you know, we'll be paying another fifteen to get our bags back at the end of a flight.) Lots more disheartening details (layoffs, scaled-back flight schedules) in Peter Pae's full story.
Meanwhile, here's a little reminder of how things used to be...
--Veronique de Turenne
