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Travel didn't always involve long TSA lines and cramped, dingy airplane seating. Many like to reminisce about the so-called "Golden Age" of flying — a vibrant era of luxury in which the comfort and enjoyment of the passenger was put first. These were the '50s and '60s, before the jumbo jet made airline travel much cheaper and more accessible to the public.
A lot has changed since then, both for the better and — some would argue — for the worse. Though many people gripe about the days in which flying was significantly less expensive than today, Mooseroots, a Graphiq site, found that this may not entirely be the case.
MooseRoots calculated the average price of domestic airfare at five different airports over time since 1963. To do so, they used data from the Bureau of Transportation Statistics going back to 1995, as well as Consumer Price Index and inflation data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics to estimate prices in years where data is not available.
In 1963, it cost $48 ($378 inflation-adjusted) to catch a flight out of DFW. That cost rose and recently declined to about $385 in 2015.