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Sunday best, a disdain for over-priced snacks and claustrophobic leg room replaced five course meals and fold out beds. By the 1980s this once luxurious pursuit was becoming an uncomfortable means to an end.

While these ‘no-frills’ airlines and their brash frugality take their share of the blame for this sense of malaise that has fallen across air travel, the opportunities to recreate a nostalgic glamour have not been lost to us. Perhaps through the on screen re-imaginings of a rose tinted past and the wistful tales of travel from those who have experienced it, we have overlooked these opportunities and conveniently forgotten that, as it did then, luxury comes at a price.

The jet-set elite was unlike any other social group that had preceded it, based not on blood-line or achievement, but a hunger for hedonism in lavish surroundings and hidden away pockets of the world. The club is open to all who have the money to buy their way in, and today, frequent flyer miles and upgrades are the currency. Next time you fly, take incentive from that hedonistic time, cocktails taste better when they’re complimentary and flying British Airways could be cheaper than you think.

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feeding time Photography Caro

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Dress WE ARE COW Belt TK Maxx

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