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Why Airlines Want to Make You Suffer
This fall, JetBlue airline finally threw in the towel. For years, the company was among the last holdouts in the face of an industry trend toward smaller seats, higher fees, and other forms of unpleasantness. JetBlue distinguished itself by providing decent, fee-free service for everyone, an approach that seemed to be working: passengers liked the airline, and it made a consistent profit. (www.newyorker.com) Altro...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
I understand. Either the CEO's of these airlines always fly first class, or they are 5'0" midgets sitting in steerage. Best economy class seating I've seen in recent years was on an Emirates 777 and that wasn't all that great.
It's the sardine can seating that makes me dread going home on leave from overseas. It's almost to a point that I don't want to fly back.
I have to agree that Southwest is my airline of choice - WHEN I must fly. But SW is also crowding seats another inch or two to stuff another row in. Other than leg room, they are the best I've flown for domestic flights.
I only fly Southwest from one of the three Washington area airports (DCA, IAD or BWI) because of friendly crews, the absence of outrageously high change fees and the ability to check two bags free. Recently, my wife and I flew from DCA to SFO on Southwest via ATL instead of nonstop on one of the legacy carriers. We had a wonderful experience aboard even though we could have saved 90-110 minutes flying nonstop. Don't complain about high fees, switch to Southwest.
If we don't get some new pilots in the pipeline, it will be a moot point because there won't be any flights.
I try to stick with SWA for domestic when possible (every other week), and then drive rest of the way if the destination is not serviced by them. They are consistent, seats sizes are the same, no fees for 2 bags, and the employees seem to like working there + those giant bags of peanuts! The other airlines are awful pretty much all the time, and the employees seem to hate their jobs, from gate agents on up the line.