Air travel is so undignified

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Anonymous wrote:People have stopped caring about being a nuisance in public, and service workers have stopped trying to do anything to stop them. Case in point: When DS was 5, he watched a Thomas the Tank Engine movie on low volume during the flight, and we got told to shut it off completely. On every flight in 2022/2023 we’ve had people playing music or watching tiktok videos without headphones on maximum volume (including people sitting next to us). Flight attendants don’t care at all, which is a stark contrast from just a few years ago.

I fly fairly often and never see anybody playing music, tv or movies without headphones/earbuds.

+1. And the flight attendants make an announcement not to have audible sound, and I’ve also seen them tell people they need to use headphones. Very recently.

+1

Now they just have to tend to people who ignore their kids, or talk too loud, too long.

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Anonymous wrote:What’s shocking is how much worse it is to fly now than even 5 years ago.

This is true.

Remember when airlines proposed seating that looked and felt like a bicycle seat so they could squish more people inside?

Ugh.

I am really annoyed that window seats cost more and try to fly as little as possible.

What are you talking about?

True story.

https://www.businessinsider.com/airbus-bicycle-seat-patent-2014-7

Not that I want an aryan man's head 18 inches behind my head breathing on me, but these actually look more comfortable for the lower back than seats currently are

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, the pandemic just made worse what was already bad. A new behavior post pandemic for me are the people pushing you over in the aisle to rush from row 37 to be the first off the plane. And if you enter the aisle to get your bag, you are subject to their breathy, vulgar, criminal slurs.

But really before the pandemic, it was an arms race of noise cancelling headphones elbowing to fight ofr the middle seat and seething over issues with your seat ranging from small kid kicking it to the pressures of the laptop on the tray behind you.

20 years ago you might even talk to someone on a lfight. My most extensive conversation on the flight in the past 3 years (and I fly 80k miles/year, mostly domestic, alas) was with a woman engaged in copious PDA and with minimal clothing (think skintight butt shorts and a crop top) who spilled a full class of water on my seat when I got up to go the bathroom, probably on purpose.

Life is too short to dwell, but yes, flying is not what it used to be and is truly a place where we all just get through.

Those of you romanticizing the bus, well, I've tried that too. It isn't worse than flying, but it is certainly no way on earth better. And it is much, much longer.

One day the world will be so bad no one will understand our complaints about the terribleness. At least I tell myself this, though perhaps I should be more optimistic about the world.

These people have got places to be, people to see. Also, they are really important and special. That’s why they are sitting in seat 34b. Since they are THE ONLY ONES THAT WANT TO GET OFF THE PLANE, we should dutifully clear the aisles for them so they can exit first 😉

If they were as important as they think they are, in their own minds, certainly they could afford private jets. But they can't, so they can sit down and wait their turn.

True. These are the same ones with too many carry on bags scattered over the cabin.

My favorite aisle charger was a mom and her two daughters who as soon as the seatbelt sign went off charged from the back of the plane pushing anybody in their way to the side. The funny part is this was aboard a huge 777. Instead of disembarking on a jet bridge, they had stairs in the front and back of the plane. Lady was successful in pushing forward, but if she had stayed where she was she would have been first off. Her obnoxious move got her to the back of the line.