What Duffy fails to take into account is that air travel in that “golden age” was the preserve of the wealthy. Since then, airlines strived to reach the masses and increase their profits by making air travel relatively more affordable. To do this, they redesigned their seating to maximize capacity and cranked up the number of flights, so we have cramped, uncomfortable seating, a markedly less luxurious experience, and overcrowded runways with all the delays that entails, as well as a decidedly less sophisticated clientele that is more prone to wearing flip flops and pajama bottoms in public. A few more “pleases” and “thank yous” is not going to remedy that.
Correct.
However, we should meet the bare minimum.
No pajamas.
“What Duffy fails to take into account is that air travel in that “golden age” was the preserve of the wealthy.”
Maybe. It still rankles me when the adult son shows up at his moms funeral in a dirty tee shirt.