[paimoe]

This sounds like a "back in my day I had to take a ship to school" bit

[ghaff]

Ships were obviously much more common given there’s basically one trans-Atlantic ocean liner these days.

[tim333]

Yeah a lot of it was killed by cheap flights.

[ghaff]

And even before flights got generally cheaper, it's hard for most people to justify taking almost a week longer, between a very limited number of destinations, on a pretty limited schedule.