An American airport shuttle bus 1973
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Passengers sit facing one another inside an American airport shuttle bus in 1973, photographed during a nighttime transfer between terminals or aircraft stands. The wood-effect interior panels, metal grab rails, and inward-facing bench seating reflect the utilitarian design of airport ground transport during the early jet age.
Coats, handbags, and small suitcases are packed tightly around the cabin, while a “No Smoking” sign above the driver hints at changing attitudes toward onboard behaviour in public transport during the early 1970s. Such shuttle buses were a familiar part of air travel at large U.S. airports, used to move passengers across sprawling airfields before the widespread adoption of enclosed jetways and people-mover systems.
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