In 1976, the president of United Airlines made a number of predictions about what air travel would look like in 50 years—the impossibly futuristic year 2026. And if you take a quick peek at a calendar you may notice we’ve somehow arrived in that distant time.
United’s president, Richard J. Ferris, got some things right, like the idea that the U.S. government would deregulate the airline industry. But he also got a lot wrong, including the idea that there would only be three major airline carriers and that supersonic jets would be common by the 2020s.
The predictions by Ferris appeared in an article for the Chicago Tribune which was syndicated in newspapers across the country. The article opened with quite a bold statement in which Ferris insisted that “had…
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Source gizmodo.com
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