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drunkpostdisaster ,

Ship travel in the age of sail was more accommodating. At least you can walk around and shit.

roguetrick ,

Only up on the poop deck though.

Abnorc ,

It takes so much longer though. I don’t think I’d prefer the travel time of a ship over the sea over the temporary discomfort of a flight.

BigBenis ,

Airliner ticket prices used to be regulated. So when all airlines had to charge the same price, they had to find other ways to be competitive in order to bring in customers. Deregulation in the 70s brought ticket costs down but that means ticket cost is now the primary point of competition between airlines and amenities now come at a steep premium.

SupraMario ,

Yep, you can have it one way or the other…cheap flights or super luxury and only the rich can fly. Planes are not cheap to operate and fuel isn’t free.

No_Eponym ,
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And CEO bonuses and shareholder dividends must always be high-flying.

MirthfulAlembic ,
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Frankly for short haul flights it makes sense. Would it be worth paying double or triple for a three hour flight just to get a full meal? Anyone who truly wants a taste of old time flying can get that with a first class ticket, both in terms of cost and quality.

chemicalprophet ,

Because our children’s children will still be paying the tab for that unsustainable opulence. Fuck they’ll be paying the bill for recreational air travel with only pretzels.

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.

Duke_Nukem_1990 ,

Talking about service workers like that is 🚩🚩🚩

HowManyNimons ,

Cheaper innit.

Tja ,

Succinct

Clinicallydepressedpoochie , (edited )

We are too reliant on 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 ,

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    Clinicallydepressedpoochie ,

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

    Thanks for the laugh.

    John_McMurray ,

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    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…

    John_McMurray ,

    Fucking retard

    Clinicallydepressedpoochie ,

    Using the r word in 2024. Someone I really want to interact with.

    John_McMurray ,

    Oh you’re just so clever and progressive, so open minded your fucking brain fell out.

    piccolo ,

    Sir… i think thats your brain youre looking at.

    John_McMurray ,

    What a retarded comeback “no.u”

    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…

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    Zink ,

    a thing of the past for poor people, anyway.

    Allonzee ,

    We were too conservative in our estimates and other accelerating factors, like loss of the reflectivity of our arctic regions, have entered the game.

    This stuff doesn’t go away on any human perceived timeframe even if we stopped entirely. Our beloved capitalists will be able protect themselves for a couple more decades beyond us peasants, but their luxury bunkers with ironically self-sustaining agricultural sections will effectively become the tombs of the families most responsible.

    We were just smart enough to make technologies that helped us today and doomed us tomorrow, and still too bone dead stupid not to stop/drastically reduce using them upon discovering the consequences of their use.

    🔥🤷🔥

    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.

    roboto ,

    And you get that for free? That’s wild! I really mean that I’m happy Ryanair has to offer me a seat

    Agent641 ,

    Y’all know you’re allowed to bring your own food right?

    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.

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