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Arthur Frommer's Budget Travel, January, 2003
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2002: THE BUDGET HEYDAY? YOU DO THE MATH 1957: Europe on $5 a Day by Arthur Frommer "Begin with the fact that air rates overseas are fixed by international agreement-there is no cost-cutting competition...Current round-trip airfares, tourist class: New York to London $522, Chicago to London $588, Los Angeles to London $720." (To approximate those prices in 2002 dollars, multiply each one by 6.4.)
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1959: Jet Age Guide to Europe "TWA's fares from New York to Paris are $603 round trip tourist [class] and $489.60 round trip in economy class." (Factor of inflation: about 6.19) 1970: Let's Go: Europe "Peak- season fares generally run about double charter fares (e.g. New York-London round trip is about $510, New York-Rome about $660)." (Factor of inflation: about 4.19) 1990: Frommer's Europe on $40 a Day "Continental Airlines offered summer 1989 round-trip flights from New York to ...
