{"id":172036,"date":"2025-02-02T05:30:14","date_gmt":"2025-02-01T19:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/british-european-airways-fares-1951\/"},"modified":"2025-02-02T05:30:14","modified_gmt":"2025-02-01T19:30:14","slug":"what-were-british-european-airways-fares-like-in-1950","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=172036","title":{"rendered":"What Were British European Airways Fares Like In 1950?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During the early years of commercial aviation, the experience of flying was a             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"204384\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/premium\/\"  >premium<\/a><\/span> unto itself. Other, slower forms of transportation, such as railroad services and steamboats, still primarily served travelers looking for a bargain, as the costs associated with aviation prevented it from truly becoming a good available to the masses. Operating commercial flights came along with exorbitant operational costs, something which meant that air carriers, which were profit-seeking businesses, <strong>had to keep fares high to ensure that they could recoup their operating costs<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fares cost surprisingly more than you might expect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,1513,13240,2979,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-british-airways","category-commercial-aviation","category-european-aviation","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=172036"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":172037,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172036\/revisions\/172037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=172036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=172036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=172036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}