Ah yes PAXboy those were indeed the days, when cabin crews looked after you and smiled when you requested something and gave you little things like nuts, hot towels, meals endless rounds of tea and coffee.
Putting it bluntly, those were the days when flying was not for the likes of me and people from my less than wealthy background. Do I want to pay several hundred quid more for some nuts, a towel and "Tea? Coffee?" Of course not.
The last one about cabin staff being better will partly be a trick of memory I suspect.