It's a long time since I've looked around PPRuNe headings. Living on memories I found myself comparing modern day costs with mine in the early 60's.
I recall being filled with angst being held at SEN's 06 holding point. It was costing me one and tuppence a minute. After I'd finished multiple landings, I vaguely recall having to pay half a crown for one landing. I'm certain that was the cost of landing at Stansted, having coffee with the guys in the tower, and buzzing off back to SEN. It's quite possible that there were no movements during the leisurely coffee brake.
1,500 quid was quite a lot to part with for a CPL, but somewhere between half and a third of a reasonable working man's house. A proper course was substantially more. Southend flying school ran a CPL course. We had a very nice blazer badge - at a price. Turn up when we wanted to, and arrange the written side with AVIGATION in Ealing, or Cass College near Liverpool St station in London. AVIGATION was a quid a day. Turn up when you wanted to, and ask questions when you needed to. Perfect system. Cass was 180 for a term, or year, with same deal. Just turn up when you wanted to. It cost me just over a pound for a 90 minute train ride - return. Since you had to do the whole darn lot again for the ALTP. (ATPL) when you'd got enough hours, it really was a huge burden when the flying side was perhaps at its most demanding. But at least we were earning by then.
At one stage in AVIGATION, I shared a table with Gordon Corpse. He had been a Victor captain, and now an ARB test pilot which included Concorde, so I'm told. That was some competition.
I started at SEN as a DC3 FO at £1,550 pa. A very few years later I was earning £2,222 pa (you can see how I remembered that) as a Viscount FO. 1970 BAC 1-11 FO £3,600 while the 707 FO's were starting at around 6,000. With flight pay, they were kings, and of course, captains were sky gods. Often quite an increase from wartime flight pay. Around 1971 a pleasant detached 3 bed near Braintree sold for around 4,600. Near to Luton, rather more.
I bought G-AXGE at around 3,700, and commuted to work for months, night and day. Even into LHR on some kind of landing card which meant I paid ten and sixpence a landing. I used to fly into Heathrow fairly often. Both night and day I was given a clearance Direct (home on the east coast) not above 500'.
I paid farmer mates at the pub 30 shillings a week to use a meadow near my home. I did many hundreds of landings, at first using paraffin in old oil cans, and then, sometimes, natural light. That was interesting. 55 years later I see it is, or was, for sale at 10X the price. Nothing with money makes any sense.
I recall saying to a FO one day that inflation is akin to an engineer going into work each morning and finding all his tools had assumed different sizes. A half inch AF spanner would now not quite fit the nut. Money is a tool, and for all of my 85 years, people have tried their hardest to make it valueless as something one can base one's future on.