There Should Be Movie Theaters In Airports
I have a good idea that you can NOT steal, but which you may hear. Are you ready? Here it goes:
United Airlines is retrofitting 19 of its large planes to “10-abreast seating in economy” class, which currently has nine-abreast seating. Someone please regulate airline seating before we are sitting on the wings.
The Chance to Regulate Airline Seats Is Before Us
The first elected official who is able to pass a law ensuring that airplane seats are large enough for human beings to sit in will be incredibly popular. At the moment, we are still moving in the opposite direction.
At airports, “TSA staffing hasn’t grown but the number of people going through checkpoints is up considerably... Last year, TSA had 91 days when it screened more than two million people. This year it has already had 165 days of such high volume.” Oh good.
Great, Another Way For Airlines To Have Fewer Employees To Help You
For the past several years, the airline industry has been making spectacular profits by using a conscious strategy of making flying less pleasant for passengers. Next on the agenda: your luggage.
Single Pilot Airline Flights Are Coming, But Don't Worry About Dying
We don't want to alarm anyone, but it is now more theoretically possible than ever before that you could one day be flying on a commercial airline flight with only one single pilot, and that pilot could die during the flight—oh my god.
Airlines Are Pursuing a Business Strategy of Torturing Passengers
Some years ago, the airline industry set itself on the path towards its current record profits by shrinking seats more, and more, and more. What does the future hold for airlines? More shrinking seats.
U.S. airlines posted more strong profits in the latest quarter, and say they expect the good earnings to continue for the foreseeable future, so it seems like a great time for them to install some human-sized seats in the motherfucking planes.
Stop Fighting One Another and Unite For Larger Airline Seats
As reclining-airline-seat rage sweeps the nation, it is time for some real talk. Sure, it's fun to fantasize about smashing those rude seat-reclining travelers who smash our knees. But the actual villain in all this is clear: the airline industry itself.
What Was "First Class?"
Those who keep a close eye on the airline industry tell us that many airlines today are considering doing away with "First Class," in favor of, I suppose, either more ultraluxury seats, or more tiny hell seats. What was "First Class," anyhow?
How Are Airlines Making So Much Money?
If you've taken a commercial airline flight recently, you could be forgiven for assuming that airlines are broke as hell, forced to penny-pinch and slash service to the bone. Not so! Several airlines reported record profits this week. But how?
The Three Rules for Riding on Airplanes
Flying is easy. One would think.
Jet aborts takeoff after striking fish.
How Is Air Travel Getting More Awful Today?
Flying, once a quirky luxury, has not completed its transition into an unavoidable descent to hell. The experience of flying on commercial airlines grows more excruciatingly painful by the day.
Airline Pilots Get Paid Crap
Republic Airways announced this week that it's grounding 27 of its planes due to a "shortage of qualified pilots." Possibly related: many airline pilots get paid jack shit.
Don't Worry About That "Smoking Bag" in the Terrible Airport
An entire terminal in Laguardia, America's worst airport, was evacuated today after a baggage handler reported smoke coming from a piece of luggage. Nothing to worry about, folks. Just a smokin' bag.
More domestic airline flights are running late these days—17%, as compared to 14% a year earlier—but fewer passengers are filing complaints about it to the government, probably because they have suffocated in their seats.
Jet Blue is ending service to all NYC-area airports and to Boston at 5 p.m. today and not resuming until 10 a.m. tomorrow, due to weather. That's more than 300 cancelled flights. Type your tales of woe in the discussion section, travelers.
Peggy Noonan Cannot Tolerate The Rigors of Air Travel
O Peggy, my Peggy, so heady—gentle Peg! She travels, unravels, then babbles—is she dead?
