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Remember bus travel of the 60s? (If you’re that old?)

Air travel is now its equivalent.

Welcome to air travel of the 21st century.

Don’t worry, if you’re Muslim, at least you can get by the TSA harassing.

I once flew on a small American Eagle plane from LA to San Diego in the mid '90s, and the captain had an hilarious pre-flight speech that he gave with an even and professional tone, and one would get him fired these days, but that went like this.

"Good morning ladies and gentleman. We'll get going here in a minute as soon as I finish taking all my medication, and then we'll give it another minute or two to kick in. As you see, we are a bit shorthanded today but your comfort is our first priority. If during the flight there is anything you want, anything at all, just shout it out or waive to me. I've got this bit of string I can tie off the flight controls with, and I'll be right back there to take care of whatever you need."

Remember bus travel of the 60s? (If you’re that old?)

Air travel is now its equivalent.

Welcome to air travel of the 21st century.

Yep. Deregulation brought it to the masses. And now that they can’t keep out the riff-raff...

I’ve called them flying busses for a couple of decades. I didn’t mind, because it was so cheap. But the creation of the TSA changed everything.