I HATE the airline industry

Conservatives hate big government. In contrast, I hate most big businesses, but none with more passion than the airline industry. I do anything and everything to avoid using their services.

I've been left stranded in cities distant from my home without a lick of sympathy from the airline carriers after I have shelled out a sizable portion of my income, paying them to take care of my transportation to and from my home city. Yet they feel no obligation to be concerned, or to provide help when they are unable to meet their obligations. That damn ticket is a two-way contract, yet they feel perfectly fine with abandoning their obligations when conditions aren't perfect. What other business do you know that will take your money to provide you with good or services, then tell you, "Oh, we can't do it after all and we're not giving you a refund?"

And the seating? Even if you aren't a large person, it is not unusual to have a large person in the seat next to you spilling over into your lap. The seats are not designed for full sized adults. Shame on the cheap bastards who design the aircraft that way. Why isn't some upstart competitor joining the industry offering comfortable seats in each plane?

Fuck the airlines and the planes they rode in on. - Bozo

How Is Air Travel Getting More Awful Today? (Click here to view the original post)

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.
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ITEM: "United Airlines is getting tough on passengers with oversized carry-on bags, even sending some of them back to the ticket counter to check their luggage for a fee."
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ITEM: "At the end of March, Southwest frequent fliers will see their points devalued by roughly 14%."
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ITEM: "Regional airlines can't fill their cockpits, and it's because their pilots earn miserably low pay."
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ITEM: "In the wake of its merger with US Airways, American Airlines this week became the latest major U.S. airline to end its policy of offering bereavement fares."
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ITEM: "A new study estimates that severe weather has cost airlines and passengers $5.8 billion this winter."
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ITEM: "Over the past 15 years, most global carriers have upgraded their business cabins with seats that spread out into flat beds. These are so luxurious that most airlines have ditched first class. To make room for these loungers, airlines have squeezed coach class. First they compressed rows by shaving knee space. Now many are wedging an extra seat into each row."
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ITEM: "North Korea defended on Wednesday its recent missile firings as 'ordinary military practice,' as South Korea said Tuesday's volley passed above a Chinese passenger jet's route just minutes ahead of the airliner."
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"Maybe a missile strike would get us a little more god damn legroom," joked Jay Leno, before retreating to his private jet.