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Looking back, it is one of those inflight phenomena – like free cigars on Concorde or unrestricted flight-deck visits – that seems scarcely conceivable. During the 1990s, the US standby airpass allowed unlimited flights for a month anywhere on the Delta domestic network. Even better, Northwest Orient (now part of Delta) took you around America and gave access to a string of Canadian cities on a shoestring.
