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netvor ,
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They used to be also fascinated by plastic.

I bet their smiles would not last long realizing that the 5g bag of pretzels has 2g of plastic (and that’s just the tip of the plastiberg).

Blackmist ,

Good old airlines and their ideal business model:

Charge you like you’re flying on Concorde.

Treat you like you’re on a 16th century slaving ship.

AFC1886VCC ,

Don’t forget that enshittification creeps into the real world as well

KoalaUnknown ,

And the “free” pretzels are also sponsored with an ad on the packaging.

psycho_driver ,

Yeah but at least the quality of service has went from smiling attractive courteous flight attendants to snarling aisle donkeys.

HowManyNimons ,

Cheaper innit.

Clinicallydepressedpoochie ,

We are too reliant of air travel as it is. With the advent of the internet we should reduce air travel down to permitted leisure/visiting family and migration. Businesses should be able to video confernced most transactions. The situations where you absolutely need on site representation can be reduced drastically.

That is, if you took climate change seriously.

Xanis ,

HA. So look, I do agree. Problem is businesses don’t care, even if we do. If you figure out a way to stop management across way too many professions from holding hour long meetings to talk about some data point that has so significance to what is actually happening, and those “leaders” who call meetings early to get the team together, when the whole damn thing could be in an email…yeah man, when you solve that, I’ll work with you to solve the rest.

Clinicallydepressedpoochie ,

Ok, but like I’m not going to solve it. It’s not also going to be solved today. I’m just saying you want to gripe about your shitty airplane experience like we need to make it a luxury resort when really we need to stop pumping carbon into the atmosphere.

John_McMurray ,

“Permitted leisure”? I mean this in the kindest way. Fuck you and your miserable excuse for living.

Clinicallydepressedpoochie ,

Lol. “The environment can suck my big fat cock. I need to go to Jamaica, NOW!”

Thanks for the laugh.

John_McMurray ,

You don’t even know what real driver is, you’re just so pathetic and poor you dont want anyone else doing anything either

Clinicallydepressedpoochie , (edited )

I do have a selfish reason; and it’s not because I don’t vacation. It’s I travel for work and that shit is exhausting. Anyway, you’re acting like you care so go and give this a read and leave me alone you dope.

bbc.com/…/20200218-climate-change-how-to-cut-your…

Allonzee ,

Wait till accelerating climate change makes leisure flights a thing of the past in the next decade or so, along with tame weather and dependable agriculture.

Our species is done, thanks to mindsets like yours.

arstechnica.com/…/the-climate-is-changing-so-fast…

John_McMurray ,

How you morons even look in the mirror is beyond me

Zink ,

a thing of the past for poor people, anyway.

Omgboom ,

In the ‘golden age’ of air travel, flying was exclusive and relatively luxurious because it was so expensive; the average cost for a roundtrip ticket from Dallas Fort-Worth would cost around $48. While that seems affordable today, a $48 ticket in 1963 converts to about $467 in 2022 with inflation.

Yeah it was so expensive guys

roboto ,

You guys get snacks?

With Ryanair I’m thankful that they have to offer a seat.

doingthestuff ,

There’s no snacks. Maybe a mini bag of pretzels if the flight is over 5 hrs long.

qjkxbmwvz ,

It can be extremely luxurious if you pay.

I’d rather get to my destination with my wallet still in tact, but you do you.

edinbruh ,

Look at you, flying on rich planes with that much space in front of you

rand_alpha19 ,

Look at Mr. Moneybags over here, getting a drink that's not water.

hemko ,

Eh, if you’re looking for the cheapest ticket available you can’t really expect luxury. Airlines are competing with prices, so all luxury goes off the window like a passenger on a Boeing flight

capt_wolf ,
@capt_wolf@lemmy.world avatar

So I remember taking a flight 10 years ago and they gave us pretzel pieces from snyders. I thought, great, we don’t even get whole pretzels…

Next flight, they give us generic “trail mix” in clear bags. The kind the old folks down the street would give out at Halloween because it was “healthy.” but that contained approximately 2 pretzels the size of quarters, 3 peanuts, 3 generic m&ms, and 2 raisins…

It gave me the impression that airlines are like schools, where the flight staff are the ones bringing in the snacks because the airline is too cheap to supply them.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/fba7344c-350c-49c2-9c0f-f362160ef8b8.jpeg

doingthestuff ,

My teacher friends live in big houses and travel all over the world but you know whatever. I don’t.

MotoAsh ,

Liar.

GBU_28 ,

Stupid. The cost for flights then was more like beyond first class prices now.

dtrain ,

Stupid. The cost for flights then was more like beyond first class prices now.

And a lot more smoky.

tpihkal ,

Don’t like the smoke? Then sit on the other side of the aisle in the non-smoking section.

abcd ,

This reminded me of that one flight as a kid, when I was seated in a row with two smokers. I literally couldn’t breathe. I’m happy that my kids don’t have to experience shit like this.

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