Hi All,
From the time line.
Jan 1973 - TWA plane ticket appears to have been purchased, est ticket cost $500.
I think it has been said before, but I will say it again. $500 for airline tickets in 1973 seems to be a lot of money. I've tried googling to see if I could find the cost of airfares in 1973, but haven't had much luck. I did check the current cost of a flight from CA to MA for 1 adult and 1 child (current flight costs) and it was $408 on economy/non flexible and CA to Italy/LIN international was $824 on economy/non refundable for 1 adult and 1 child (if I did it correctly, maybe someone in the US could check this). Oh, these were both return flights and the higher costs, not the cheap airfares.
So, with that info, the $500 in 1973 seems EXTREMELY costly (hope you can see where I'm going with this).
Annasmom, can you remember roughly how much it cost to fly from the US to Greece (or vice versa) back then.
I'm also wondering if there is any way to find out (maybe Annasmon might know) what age did a child have to be over in 1973, that you had to purchase a ticket for them. I'm pretty sure that back then, in Australia, if a child could sit on your knee, then you didn't have to purchase a ticket for them, roughly 4 or 5 years old (on domestic flights, not sure about international flights).
I think whatever those TWA tickets were purchased for in Jan 1973, they need to be checked if possible.
Could a TWA credit card be used to purchase anything else in 1973, like you can with a normal credit card or could it only be used to purchase flight tickets?