Are Intact Airplanes Too Much For The Shrinking Middle Class To Ask For?

thefederalist.com ^ | 1/12/2024 | PEACHY KEENAN

[bitt]

Things we once enjoyed have suddenly gotten so much worse. Not just a little worse, but way worse. You pay more, you get less, and it sucks.

Social media was on fire this week in the wake of the Claudine Gay incompetence scandal at Harvard, the 737 IKEA MAX airplane scandal at Boeing, and the ongoing scandal of fanatic, destructive DEI hiring rules at airlines, air traffic control towers, colleges, corporate America, and everywhere else that matters. Things got so wild that Elon Musk replied positively to one of my anti-DEI screeds, and Matt Walsh credited me for some of my airline tweets on his show. Thanks, guys!

All of these stories are closely related. They’re downstream from the source of everything that is ailing us, and that is the on-purpose, going-according-to-plan vanishing of the middle-class American family. All the viral news stories, especially the plane stuff, reminded me how lots of things I grew up enjoying, even taking for granted, have suddenly gotten so much worse. Not just a little worse. But like, way, way worse. You pay more, you get less, it sucks, and it’s scarce. Old woman yells at cloud? Guilty.

Flying is a perfect analogy for the decline, as many have discussed. I remember cross-country flights home from college where I would be relatively comfortable in coach for six straight hours on a plane flown by a former Top Gun pilot who sounded and looked like Chuck Yeager, and who always got on the intercom to let me know he was doing his best to find some smooth air for me. American Dad Guy was in control, and I was going to get home safe

[bitt]

SNIP...
“As I tweeted this week, the hollowing out of commercial air travel mirrors the hollowing out of everything else the middle class once got to enjoy with relative ease and safety: pleasant towns, nice neighbors, good public schools, and wholesome children’s entertainment.

Middle-class things are vanishing as fast as the actual middle class. But as many times as you read an article about “the shrinking middle class,” watching it happen in real-time is quite something.”.........

[CatOwner]

They need to get the middle class out of the skies so that the elites can have more of the space to themselves.

[DoughtyOne]

Interestingly enough, isn’t it amazing how this comes up at a
time when the WEF wants us to settle down in 15 minute
cities and give up the right travel across this nation at
will?

I smell so great big rats in on this. (intentional ?)

[DoughtyOne]

Grrrr...

Interestingly enough, isn’t it amazing how this comes up at a
time when the WEF wants us to settle down in 15 minute
cities and give up the right to travel across this nation at
will?

I smell some great big rats in on this. (intentional ?)

[Sequoyah101]

Just about nothing works well in this country anymore. On top of that, name one thing the gooberment has made better or cost less. Just one.

[blackdog]

You are being conditioned to stop flying. Planes and panic. Commercial Airlines travel industry is like the Coal industry in the minds of the ruling elites. They have a separate and not equal private jet fleet and don't share the private side of the airport. No TSA checks either.

The WEF at Davos issued a draft proposal to force citizens to apply and show need for air travel. There will be caps on permitted travel.

[FarCenter]

Alfred E Kahn

Alfred Edward Kahn (October 17, 1917 – December 27, 2010) was an American economist and political advisor who specialized in regulation and deregulation. He was an important influence in the deregulation of the airline and energy industries.[1] Commonly known as the "Father of Airline Deregulation,"[2] he chaired the Civil Aeronautics Board during the period when it ended its regulation of the airline industry, paving the way for low-cost airlines, from People Express to Southwest Airlines.

It all went downhill after the Airline Deregulation Act

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airline_Deregulation_Act

[leaning conservative]

I was lucky to have that childhood. And flying in planes with all the bolts attached.....
I can understand the cook who forgets to put the pickles on my burger, but the guy who forgets the wing bolts is a whole nother story.

[T.B. Yoits]

Commercial aviation in particular has been hurt by the rise in fractional jet ownership of corporate-style jets.

The corporate jets are better maintained, with better and non-DIE pilots, and operate out of clean, small airports closer to upscale neighborhoods.

Once wealthier people could afford fractional jet ownership of corporate jets (or hired sharp accountants to help write it all off as business expenses), the larger commercial jets were reduced to transporting the unwashed masses on flying buses.

[Reeses]

[coloradan]

Don’t be a hater! Those bolts, still in a box on the manufacturing floor, nevertheless identify as having been installed on the airframe.

[cgbg]

“You are being conditioned to stop flying.”

It worked on me—have not even visited an airport since I retired a few years back.

I do not miss the airport Beta testing for concentration camps or sardine cans pretending to be airplanes.

If somebody out of the area needs to see me they know where to find me.

;-)

[Political Junkie Too]

You are being conditioned to stop flying.

Well... it certainly did condition me to stop flying 737-800s.

Next week I'm flying on an Embraer 175.

-PJ

[blackdog]

I fly myself. That’s not as easy as it used to be either. It’s changed. Flying very late at night helps. The ATC centers have much less workload from 10PM until sunrise. Air is more calm and stable. Flight following is generous.

[frank ballenger]

Over Speaker: So if you happen to be the passenger who sees the rusty bolts coming loose, use the fix-it bag under your seat to tighten or replace them.💺🛬
And newly open seams can be fixed with a spray can just like inflating your flat car tire.

Have a pleasant flight.

[NetAddicted]

Read later.

[ronnie raygun]

DEI turns its ugly head, thank you government and corporations that bow

[metmom]

For the elite, yes.

They want is eliminated and do not care how they do it and what it costs us.

[Candor7]

My middle class has shrunk so much that I am headed to the Southern Border to fight for Texas.

Going by train with my pack, small tent , AR-15, .45 Colt ,
and 6 cans of beans.

I am not worried about food ,if they can feed thousands of wet backs, they can spare a little for me.