Saturday, May 25, 2024

Consider the Passenger - A chronicle of aviation sins


Having flown back from our vacation, and having again experienced the less-than-optimal facilities in the overcrowded, utterly uncomfortable, we-give-a-dam airlines, I judged necessary to post this old article from Flight Magazine, published at the golden time when airlines cared equally about passengers and revenue. Nothing like today, when airlines are a shit-show absolutely driven by profits. Arbitrary changes of time and even date of your flight, overbooked flights, discombobulated boarding practices, unintelligible PSA messages at airports and planes, restrooms where either your ass or the rest of you can fit -but not both at the same time, and seats designed by the SPANISH INQUISITION.

We have gone a long way...FROM COMFORT TO TORTURE. And please don't give me the PR moronic explanations that we should be grateful. 

Complain, when just and fair, to Customer Service (they are making that less and less possible and more complicated, though). Let your voice be heard when you are mistreated, mishandled, or deceived. DO NOT complain to the people that are just working, and also suffering from the same policies: flight attendants, pilots, desk staff. They are employees.
 

Most Airlines today are frigging basterds going only after your money, and not there to help you or provide a good service, if they can avoid it. That is directed by Boards, Execs, and shareholders, not by the employees, as tired as you of bad conditions and poor salaries.


1 comment:

  1. My Father started with Braniff in 1930 then Transcontinental & Western Air in 1933 when Braniff went bankrupt and stiffed my Dad for a fuel bill.
    Had many trips on Connies, Martin 404s, etc. in the early 1950's. It WAS a different era. Dad would receive Christmas Cards from the stars of the day. Because Dad would use the cabin mike to tell his passengers what they were seeing.

    As you stated, a different era, it truly was the Golden Age of commercial aviation.

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