I was invited to interview with one and I figured I'd give it a shot. It was surreal because it was on a sketchy side of my city nestled between two burnt down buildings. It was a converted motel and a lot of lights in the hallway were burnt out. It was so run down that I sent some pictures to friends and joked about how I wondered if I was going to get murdered.

The interviewer asked me to be 10 minutes early. When I got there, not only were they 15 minutes late (total of 25 min waiting), but the job was wholly commission based unlike their ad.

Also worth note: job boards tend to be "a market for lemons". The best companies fill their positions quickly because so many people want to work with them. So a large proportion of postings that accept less qualified candidates are workplaces with a lot of churn.

Not to say it's impossible to land an excellent position with growth potential, but rather that it takes a lot more effort to avoid the bad workplaces. Networking helps you sidestep those issues, but is definitely a lot harder than spamming resumes.

Yes, there are more airlines doing flights more efficiently. The default package is about the same with a few corners cut. Planes are bigger and there's more routes to choose from, but the price of a ticket hasn't changed a lot.

Flights like LA to Chicago haven't changed price, but flights like LA to Osaka have. In other words domestic flights cost about the same after inflation, but international flights are now almost as cheap as domestic.

You can read a bit more here; the efficiency and selection are vastly different from the 40s.