Already made my decision. Haven’t flown anywhere since about 2005.
TSA made that decision for me in 2003. Getting through security on the way back from a business trip did it for me. I was an FAA Employee at the time.
Before I got ill, I would ONLY fly myself
Flying today as become like a bad subway ride in NYC.
You’ll have the fat guy on the left overflowing into your area. The smelly woman on the right assaulting your nostrils. A stewardess (or whatever the new PC term is for them today) throwing a bag of stale nuts at your head, and you better not complain or else security will escort you from the plane. They will upsell everything, possibly lose your luggage, after some TSA moron violates your basic constitutional rights. At the airport you’ll pay twice what everything is worth and have crappy seating.
And for all that awesomeness, you’ll pay far more than what the national inflation is and have the US Department of Transportation tell you how it’s actually cheaper, since they don’t include the cost of the TSA and other new and added taxes, etc. The airlines aren’t actually making the money: https://thepointsguy.global.ssl.fastly.net/us/originals/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-26-at-4.18.49-PM.png?width=1080. On a trans-atlantic flight, costing $1,700 per ticket, only $400 is going to the air carrier. Where is the rest going?
In a way, I feel sorry for the airlines. They aren’t lying and their profit margins are small, they are struggling.
It used to be fun to fly, special.
Flying today: https://youtu.be/HwhrqEopiDM?si=czg5ZY5PWW53Z8X2
