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As the pilot said, the amount of people flying has doubled.
How could this be possible without enormous subsidies, both in the form of direct bailouts to the airline industry as well as our government shielding us all from the true cost of burning fuel in such quantities?
Add to that delayed flights, grumpy airport workers, and security procedures that are so stupid an missing the point as to be insulting to one's intelligence and it's a wonder why anyone flies.
If the airlines were forced to build in the true cost of actual flight, including the environmental costs, the prices would be so high that flying wouldn't even exist.
Maybe it shouldn't.
I know personally I am sick of my government bailing out these shitty businesses that have poor customer service and whose product has only deteriorated in every sense of the word in the last couple of decades.
