Remembering how I was introduced to both Kudos bars and Jergens shampoo like a year before market in the early 90s on airlines

Passengers on tourist routes were still a high-openness elite market segment that soon after deregulation just as frequent flyer programs and business class were taking off (::rimshot::)

(Narratives of multi-state “road trip” driving to destinations were more common)

Right after the deregulation we had flown on People Express, which was so low-budget you had to bring your own meal

(I was also given Breathe-Rite nasal strips with my free seat cushion at Super Bowl XXX, Steelers/Cowboys in Tempe, Arizona outside Phoenix. That pocket also had our seat-specific 2-sided colored cards to hold out and flip for the halftime show climax)