Sky-high memories: Vintage Ansett Airlines menu causes a stir
<p>A person on social media site Reddit has shocked users by sharing a picture of a 1970s-era drinks menu from former airline carrier Ansett Australia.</p>
<p>The menu shows cans of beer for 30 cents, a can of Coke for 10 cents and packets of cigarettes sold for a low price of 45 cents.</p>
<p>For whisky fans, miniature bottles of imported whisky were sold for 45 cents, and specially selected red and white wines were sold at 40 cents a glass.</p>
<p>These prices are incredibly low, especially by today's standards.</p>
<p>People made jokes about the menu.</p>
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<p>“No wonder they went bust with these prices,” one person commented.</p>
<p>“I was born too f**king late,” another said.</p>
<p>“Cigarettes on a flight. Yikes,” someone said.</p>
<p>One person reminisced about smoking on planes.</p>
<p>“I’ll never forget flying Qantas as a kid up the back of the plane with the smokers for 12 hours to LAX and back,” one person commented.</p>
<p>“I’m just old enough to remember being in a plane when smoking was allowed,” another said.</p>
<p>“Only a curtain separated the smoking and non-smoking sections. It was absolutely foul.”</p>
<p>Ansett suddenly collapsed in 2001, leaving thousands of passengers stranded and around 16,500 people out of work.</p>
<p>The collapse followed years of financial trouble, tough competition, cash flow problems and an ageing fleet.</p>
<p>By the time the company went bust, it was said to be bleeding money to the tune of $1.3 million a day.</p>
<p>It remains one of the most infamous airlines collapses in Australia's history.</p>
<p><em>Photo credit: Reddit</em></p>
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