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Whatever happened to standby flights?
Once the cost-conscious traveller’s best friend, last-minute seats costing peanuts have all but disappeared
Impecunious prospective flyers queued around the block at Victoria station to buy a £59 one-way transatlantic ticket from the Laker office (now a branch of Pret à Manger). The idea was that they would hop on a train to Gatwick and board the plane.
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