ABC’s new series Pan Am doesn’t at first appear to have much in common with train hikers and other young people making it to Europe on a dime in the ’70s. Yet, one reason many of them got inspired to travel was growing up with the Jet Age in the ’60s. When the sleek, gleaming … Read More
Young people traveled to Europe in large numbers in the late 1960s and into the 1970s. Since they were mostly “low-budget” travelers, they looked for air fare bargains to get across the Atlantic. I wrote an earlier post about the low-price leader on that route, Icelandic Airlines. Recently I ran across an article in Time … Read More
Americans hiking around Europe came there in a variety of ways, just like they used a variety of ways for getting around the continent once there. The undisputed “hippie airline” was Icelandic (or Loftleiðir). In the 1960s and 1970s airfares from the US to Europe were regulated by IATA (the International Air Transport Association). However, … Read More