Big Game Hunters Must Pay More For Sport In Ethiopia

[AfricaHunting.com]

 

[WebleyGreene455]

$125 USD in 1929 is about $1878 USD in 2020. $60 for a buffalo becomes $901; $15 for a lion or leopard would be the equivalent of $225; $1.50 for an antelope would be $22.

 

[CoElkHunter]

$125 USD in 1929 is about $1878 USD in 2020. $60 for a buffalo becomes $901; $15 for a lion or leopard would be the equivalent of $225; $1.50 for an antelope would be $22.

I’ll do a Safari for those 2020 prices! Which concession do I sign up with?

 

[cpr0312]

Cool thanks for sharing!

Shoot, I'm only about 90 years late to the party for this deal!

 

[tigris115]

It is really funny looking at things in old-timey prices and seeing how laughably not far that money would get you

 

[CoElkHunter]

Yes, I wonder what the 1929 airfare (or more likely sea fare) would have cost in today’s dollars?

 

[tigris115]

Probably a lot more expensive relatively since, iirc, planes for passengers weren't that specialized. I'm not sure when world travel became as relatively cheap as it is nowadays to the point where even lower-middle-class families can save enough money to go to far off places.

 

[WebleyGreene455]

Probably a lot more expensive relatively since, iirc, planes for passengers weren't that specialized. I'm not sure when world travel became as relatively cheap as it is nowadays to the point where even lower-middle-class families can save enough money to go to far off places.

From this blog: https://blog.thetravelinsider.info/2016/09/history-airline-classes-cabins.html

The first passenger jets appeared in 1953, and the last ocean liners were launched, probably already after the demise of the industry they were being built to serve, in 1962 and 1963.

The revolutionary rather than evolutionary change occurred at the end of the 1950s, with the appearance of the Boeing 707 and very similar DC-8. These planes carried about twice as many passengers, about 80% faster, and at lower overall cost per passenger mile flown, than the planes they were replacing. The huge increase in passenger carrying capacity was expanded further by the sales success of the new jet planes (four times as many 707s were sold as Super Constellations) and air travel finally started becoming something that the middle class could consider as well as the upper class.​

 

[CoElkHunter]

From this blog: https://blog.thetravelinsider.info/2016/09/history-airline-classes-cabins.html

The first passenger jets appeared in 1953, and the last ocean liners were launched, probably already after the demise of the industry they were being built to serve, in 1962 and 1963.

The revolutionary rather than evolutionary change occurred at the end of the 1950s, with the appearance of the Boeing 707 and very similar DC-8. These planes carried about twice as many passengers, about 80% faster, and at lower overall cost per passenger mile flown, than the planes they were replacing. The huge increase in passenger carrying capacity was expanded further by the sales success of the new jet planes (four times as many 707s were sold as Super Constellations) and air travel finally started becoming something that the middle class could consider as well as the upper class.​

I noticed in the 1953 movie with Ruark hunting in Kenya posted in another thread here, he flew from the U.S. to Kenya in the four prop Super Constellation (same as Harry Truman’s Air Force One) and had to make a half dozen stops along the route? Must have taken several days?

 

[tigris115]

From this blog: https://blog.thetravelinsider.info/2016/09/history-airline-classes-cabins.html

The first passenger jets appeared in 1953, and the last ocean liners were launched, probably already after the demise of the industry they were being built to serve, in 1962 and 1963.

The revolutionary rather than evolutionary change occurred at the end of the 1950s, with the appearance of the Boeing 707 and very similar DC-8. These planes carried about twice as many passengers, about 80% faster, and at lower overall cost per passenger mile flown, than the planes they were replacing. The huge increase in passenger carrying capacity was expanded further by the sales success of the new jet planes (four times as many 707s were sold as Super Constellations) and air travel finally started becoming something that the middle class could consider as well as the upper class.​

Thanks

 

[WebleyGreene455]

I noticed in the 1953 movie with Ruark hunting in Kenya posted in another thread here, he flew from the U.S. to Kenya in the four prop Super Constellation (same as Harry Truman’s Air Force One) and had to make a half dozen stops along the route? Must have taken several days?

I'm afraid I wouldn't know. Depends on how long the stops were? But it'd probly be a lot faster than how you got there in 1935!

 

[CoElkHunter]

I'm afraid I wouldn't know. Depends on how long the stops were? But it'd probly be a lot faster than how you got there in 1935!

Yep!