Iwas too young to enjoy the “golden age of travel.”

But if Trump’s Transportation Secretary Sean P. Duffy really wants to return to the days when air travel was a ring-a-ding-ding good time , don’t the airlines have to do their part too? Maybe the cramped cabins, inedible meals and endless delays are making us all a little cranky. And maybe the incivility and disrespect that Duffy’s boss displays on a daily basis has a way of coarsening the way people behave in public.

If a return to a “golden age of travel” means bringing back cocktail and piano bars on airplanes, however, I’ll dust off my fedora and be first in line to pack up and fly away .

I’m Glenn Whipp, columnist for the Los Angeles Times and host of The Envelope newsletter, wondering how you survived this past wee

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