[Alberta's Child]

Air Canada will pay no price for a decision that insults the vast majority of its clients and undermines one of the most beautiful and essential building blocks of civilization: the existence, and even celebration, of the two sexes.

I like Dennis Prager but I think he goes a little overboard here in this piece. Air Canada won’t pay a price for this decision because normal people don’t give a damn whether you call them “ladies and gentlemen” or “everybody.”

I hate flying for a whole host of reasons. Calling me a “gentleman” after I’ve been put through TSA screening and crammed into a tiny coach seat isn’t going to change my mind about that.

Air Canada has probably made a smart business move because they’re catering to the only stunted misfits who give a sh!t about how they’re addressed in public announcements.

[aquila48]

The most intolerant wins. The dictatorship of the small minority.

https://medium.com/incerto/the-most-intolerant-wins-the-dictatorship-of-the-small-minority-3f1f83ce4e15

[pepsionice]

Up until 9-11 and the TSA creation, I was fairly pro-flight. I never had a bag lost, and had only one single flight cancelled while in the midst of a trip.

Over the past twenty years, I just don’t marvel at airline flights, the personnel involved, or the business practices. You have marginal legroom, and they want to charge you $25 (each way) to get real legroom. I really don’t care to watch CNN news at airports. I consider some US airports now to be third-worldish (JFK for example). I have seven airlines that I refuse to fly with because of poor personnel behavior, or marginally kept-up planes. The TSA folks are just thugs in uniform. Traveling internationally, and having to return to the US and it’s passport control....it can take up to 90 minutes to get through a stupid line and reach the bag pick-up point.

[mabarker1]

Air Canada won’t pay a price for this decision because normal people don’t give a damn whether you call them “ladies and gentlemen” or “everybody.”

It won’t matter because only about .5% of Passengers on any Aircraft FREAKING IGNORE the Flight Attendant 👩‍✈️ while the Welcome aboard and the Safety Briefing is happening anyway. They are more interested in getting a Drink 🥃 or some other type of service from the Flight Attendant ASAP. They figure if there’s an Accident or Emergency that the Flight Attendant is there just to help their selfish a$$e$ get through it before anyone else gets help.

That’s why back when I flew I would sit at the Wing Window Exits. 1) because I was flying Standby. 2)I knew how to operate the Exit. 3) I had more legroom because the seat rows are further apart for the Exit. 4) I would have been ready to help the Passengers that LISTENED to the Briefing before the ones that ignored the Briefing got to exit.

[bgill]

Air Canada's passengers.