The chaos in the US airline industry is another disaster we can attribute to Ronald Reagan, who threw out the regulations that had maintained stability – controlling routes, prices, and standards. Yes, we got cheaper fares – and Americans have pretty much demonstrated that’s all they care about, or they would never, ever, ever fly Spirit airlines – but we also got overworked crews, dirty planes, crappy service, and poor maintenance on planes and systems, as well as an eventual consolidation of smaller airlines into larger airlines run badly. And that doesn’t even count his crushing the air traffic controllers’ union, which made flying FAR more dangerous for YEARS to satisfy his anti-union hunger.
I used to like flying, and I did a lot of it (at one point I had one gold and three silver frequent flyer cards). Now, unless it is an international flight, preferably on a non-American airline, it’s just a hassle at best, and a painful, miserable experience more typically. I take the train from Boston to New York, and if we had a real high-speed train system I’d take that everywhere I could.
Indeed, by definition.
The chaos in the US airline industry is another disaster we can attribute to Ronald Reagan, who threw out the regulations that had maintained stability – controlling routes, prices, and standards. Yes, we got cheaper fares – and Americans have pretty much demonstrated that’s all they care about, or they would never, ever, ever fly Spirit airlines – but we also got overworked crews, dirty planes, crappy service, and poor maintenance on planes and systems, as well as an eventual consolidation of smaller airlines into larger airlines run badly. And that doesn’t even count his crushing the air traffic controllers’ union, which made flying FAR more dangerous for YEARS to satisfy his anti-union hunger.
I used to like flying, and I did a lot of it (at one point I had one gold and three silver frequent flyer cards). Now, unless it is an international flight, preferably on a non-American airline, it’s just a hassle at best, and a painful, miserable experience more typically. I take the train from Boston to New York, and if we had a real high-speed train system I’d take that everywhere I could.