A dress code would take care of that. Not dressed well enough for work in a normal office situation? You aren't flying.
Now it's welfare mommas in sweatpants with their brown bag full of leftovers and their little retards crying and kicking the back of your cardboard-thin seat.
De-regulation only gave us the illusion of less expensive air travel. All it really bought us was the ruination of what used to be about the finest thing America had to offer. Deregulation made us more Soviet.
We need to admit that everything that America used to great has basically become shit. But at least we're all equally shit now, comrade.
I agree. The one airline I personally like, Southwest, does this here and there. Of course, they always get in trouble for it afterwards...