Posted on 05/31/2025 6:13:36 AM PDT by george76
I had to travel a lot on business.
Since I retired I have not been near an airport.
If I want to remember what flying was like I open a sardine can—and then search the sardines for contraband!
I had to travel a lot on business.
Since I retired I have not been near an airport.
If I want to remember what flying was like I open a sardine can—and then search the sardines for contraband!
Taxes alone can run $300 now. From American Airlines:
International Travel (including Puerto Rico and U.S. Virgin Islands)
Prices include:
Base Fare and Carrier imposed fees
September 11th Security Fee of $5.60 per one-way trip, per passenger
Airport passenger facility charges (PFCs) of up to $18 roundtrip
Other government taxes and fees (including U.S. government excise tax) of up to $240 based on destination; total may vary slightly based upon currency exchange rate at time of purchase
U.S. government excise tax is a user tax to pay for airport construction and airway safety and operations.
https://www.aa.com/i18nForward.do?p=/disclaimers/taxfeedisclaima.jsp
Germany charges a €70.83 tax for international flights. You can avoid this by using Amsterdam or Brussels instead of Frankfurt or Munich (in addition to the US taxes listed above for flights to London.)
I know I’ve seen environmental taxes on flight between the EU and the US, but I can’t seem to run them down right now
During covid, my employer refused to allow any non vax employees to travel. I believe it was part of the methodology to fire unvaccinated workers. So after 2 years, I kept that policy. No more travel for me. I am going to keep that policy for the next 4-6 years until I retire.
I remember the good ‘ole days when people dressed up to fly on a commercial airliner.
Now, what we have are flying Greyhound busses.
Please don’t call it “news” its “fake agenda” or “manipulation agenda” ;)
Rename CNN as CMAN ;)
It doesn't work that way. The empty seat will be counted as a "no-show" and the seat automatically assigned to one of the ones waiting. You won't have an empty seat to surrender if it's overbooked.
Book two seats, get extra room, no one sits beside you and save $2.
The other day a woman stripped down nekkid and ran down the aisle.
-PJ
The heck with it, I’m just buying a private jet.
Yes. Re-regulate the airlines. For that industry, yes.
Those aren’t buses.
They are flying cattle cars.
I’m not cattle.
We don’t need more regulation.
If this really bugged people, they’d refuse to fly.
The people complaining need to put their money where their mouths are instead of expecting the government to fix this for them.
I practice what I preach, BTW.
I haven’t flown in two decades.
No doubt fees are a rip off. But I still think it pretty cheap to fly. I do think the airlines have gone too far in making it a miserable experience.
Depends on how far you can carry things. You can check in online the night before or print your boarding passes at a kiosk. Stall until the last minute and board as late as possible just before they close the door so they don’t have time to re-assign the seat. First person you interact with is the person scanning boarding passes at the door. It might work.
The favoring of “buying in bulk” has long been a selling practice in many sectors of the economy.
However, with airline seats I do not see the advantage to the airline, because most persons travel plans are either made to travel with someone else, or not and regardless of the fares, People who for whatever reason of travel plans of their own are not going to convince someone to buy a ticket and travel with them so that jointly they get a better “bargain”. Their friend minus any travel plans to begin with are not going to think the cost of the unexpected trip is a bargain.
“Where’s Bernie & Pocahontas demanding fare justice?”
why should they care: they travel solo on private jets anyway ... because climate change ...
Are you kidding?
How about boycotting extremely greedy assed companies that are being subsidized by the taxpayers?
i used to have to travel between O’Hare and Champaign-Urbana ... my choices were to fly some broken down puddle jumper that was always broken down and several hours late on departure (both directions), or renting a car and driving through driving sleet across barren plains of corn stubble ... i tried it both ways: both were awful ...
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