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.
I just drive.
Always get there cheaper.
And often quicker.