What would happen if air travel became expensive again?

[eastern wiseguy]

For an example of what I believe Susier means, my first job upon leaving school was in a local Travel Agency.

It was 1977 and inflation was rife.

One of my tasks was to keep the Fare manual up to date ( no computers all paper) and the contents of this changed on a weekly basis.

I remember being amazed that the standard return fare BFS-LHR ( without the Saturday night stay,or booked as an APEX ) had leapt to £100. We were told by management that only those with deep pockets would be able to afford fares of that nature.

Leisure travel at those rates would have been difficult.

I looked at an inflation calculator before posting and in today's money £100 equates to ~£640.

I was earning £ 90 per month.