Well, budget carrier Ryanair is considering charging passengers to use the airliner’s lavatory on flights of under an hour. It’d be one euro or one pound, so a buck and a half or so as of this writing.
I love flying in an airplane, but I can’t stand air travel. I’ve written about that before. I don’t want to do it anymore, and if it’s all my call to make, I won’t do it anymore for a trip of under 1,000 miles or so.
So I encourage this. In fact, I think there should be oxygen fees on airplanes. I think your fare should cover the floor area of your seat, but not your seat itself. I think there should be an additional charge to sit. I think if you want a flight attendant to answer you when you talk to him/her, that should be another charge. I think there should be a “wing fee.”
It’d suit me fine if, from the ridiculous security practices to the rapidly swelling fee structures, enough people started feeling the same way, and collapsed the industry for real. Completely disabled air travel would be tough on the economy in the short term, but for a chance to start over sensibly, it might be worth it.
Wait; what am I saying? Never mind. There would certainly be no such chance right now. Let’s at least wait until the Democrats lose the House.
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I love flying. Unfortunately, I usually have a layover in Atlanta, which means plenty of delays. It really does piss me off when they board the flight knowing it will be an hour before we can take off. Sitting shoulder to shoulder with a stranger while unable to stretch out my legs is so much better than enjoying a drink in the terminal. As much as I enjoy flying, I drive if I can get there in 5 hours or less. My last trip was to Mississippi and the total time between Jackson and Greenville was 9 hours. Had a driven I would have saved myself an hour 1/2.
Cheryl, understand that I love flying too–the actual flying part. I still stare out the window like a little kid. On a clear night flying from Atlanta to Huntsville–a common last leg, when you live here–I’ll do it continuously. I just dislike all of the crap that comes with it, and I really hate just what you rail about–the relinquished control.