Between the fake security theater treating everyone like absolute shit, the miniature airline seating designed to break knee caps, the over-crowded disease-spreading cabins, and the constant threat that the airline will kick you off the flight because they intentionally overbooked, airline travel is complete bullshit.
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This is the result of airlines allowed to self regulated... and the TSA
Ahh the invisible hand of the market
I hate flying. It's such an awful experience.
The worst part about airlines isn't the actual flying. That's safe and just as magical as the first time I flew in a plane when I was a kid. I still say "WOW!" out loud when we climb up through the cloud layer to that brilliant sunshine and perfect blue sky.
It's all the parts except for moving through the air that suck. The seats, the other passengers, the airports, the fees, security probes, waiting in lines, uncomfortable and expensive terminals.
They took an amazing, magical experience that was a dream for thousands of years and enshittified it.
Adding on too, the pandemic-era increase in the airport enshittification experience.
Airports have restaurants and services, then the pandemic starts, and of course, a whole bunch of them close. Now a few years have passed, those services have more limited hours, and some never came back. It is much more difficult (and of course, expensive) to have access to services in airports than pre-2020. I've been through several hubs recently and it's just flabbergasting how terrible it is to even try and find something basic like food.
Airline passengers are a captive audience trapped in an airport, especially during connecting flights. Airlines/airports should bear the cost of ensuring services are available any time flights are. They should bear the cost of keeping restaurants open later than 5PM. A quantity of airport services matching the passenger load should be available at flight times in respective terminals.
It's easy to figure out, they know the manifests and schedules.
They should also have some sort of fallback process in place for when flights get trapped overnight in airports to take care of the passengers. It doesn't need to be a free service, but at least doing something like: on call employees come in to run shops so passengers can buy goods.
It is dehumanizing. On the other hand, road trips are liberating.
I'd rather drive 18 hours than fly three hours. Mostly because the three hour flight is really more like six to nine hours because of getting to and from the airport, security, delays, etc.
I would love to see a reputable researcher try to calculate total lost revenues from travel avoidance.
Does anything substantial actually come from the complaints? Are we expected to see some sort of retribution against these airlines or reduced federal subsidies to them? I’m genuinely asking because there really isn’t any alternative for fast travel.
I'd like to see a breakdown on what the complaints are about. What percentage is about a flight being canceled or delayed, what percent is about being treated like crap by an airline employee, what percentage is a complaint about other customers, etc.
I recall seeing an article about this and the majority of complaints people had were about canceled/delayed flights AND the vast majority reason for those were 100 percent to do with issues the airplane carriers were at fault for.
I haven't been in an airport since before lockdown. It's been pretty great. It took a pandemic to make me realize that the act of traveling ruins the fun of visiting places.
I fly often for work and you are 100% correct. It feels like it gets worse every single time. Hence why I only fly drunk or high.
However, international I don't see that much difference pre and post.
Let's go back to water travel
I, for one, would like to see more water-based everything. Especially motion pictures. For instance, a movie about that swimming guy, what was his name? Aquatic Man was it?
Ah yes, Shark Boy.
Some shark movie maybe? Cheeks?
I prefer traveling by rail so much, it's just far superior for so many trips. If only countries other than like a handful would invest in some truly good HSR, we could be living in the future. Instead we have the absolute garbage experience of flying. Yuck.
I wouldn't know. I haven't been able to afford it for years
haven't been on an airplane in over 25 years. i wouldn't want to nowadays, even if i could afford it.
always has been