Or: Don’t Expect Luggage To Arrive.
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It’s a better choice in some aspects. Nothing is going to change with small numbers of people refusing to fly. The airlines will still be able to make money, and they do not have to take your concerns into account if you are not going to be their customer. Doing nothing is literally the worst option. The money they may lose out by me or you or other small groups of random people not flying means nothing in the grand scheme of things, and absolutely will not bring about positive change. In fact it’s keeping yourself oppressed because of their actions.
I regularly write to my representatives trying to get them to help change the regulations regarding the TSA, to start getting it to be an actual security operation and not theater. It’d be nice if other people were doing that too, because that can lead to change.
That’d be nice in some situations, but not this one; this is not a conference where a teleconference option is either available or even makes sense. There’s a lot of networking involved and a lot of small face-to-face meetups there; like a lot of conferences. The point of conferences are to get an exchange of ideas and that really works better right now by getting people together.
If you’ll also note, I have family that lives far away from me. Sometimes I do like to go see them, but I cannot drive to see them, nor do I want to have less time with them by taking a slower method of transport. Phone calls and video calls are just not the same as seeing your family in person.
Please, yes, keep blaming people for the actions of others. Please, yes, keep saying I’m in the wrong because I would like to see people and do things that may not be accessible to me via any other means. Yes, I’m totally in the wrong here.
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As if a trip to Milwaukee wasn’t punishment enough for the poor man.
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There are instances where Airline X is the only one (or possibly one other) serving a nearby airport. You are suggesting that if that airline is on the list of crappy ones, I don’t fly. In my case, that means I don’t go more than 100 miles from home.
This is an instance where ‘name and shame’ actually does work, if you have a choice. If you don’t have a choice and you need to go via air, it is illogical to point fingers at the passengers.
I’m starting to get really cheesed off at the number of quasi-monopolies that result in customers getting badly mistreated because of no adequate alternatives.
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It’s easy to say this when you don’t have to travel cross country or across large bodies of water with any regularity.
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No.
It’s your choice.
And how far has that gotten you?
Oh yea, The TSA is ratcheting up their “Pat-downs” and finger-banging people now.
You enjoy you’re way, I’ll enjoy mine, minus the prostate exam.
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I’ve often wondered about this…it always seemed that there was a tacit understanding that using the restroom is always the prerogative of passengers–that you can not be stopped, except maybe right during takeoff or landing. I guess I was wrong.
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I will not edit my post because some don’t care for it.
Flagging my post will not change my opinion in regards to this issue.
If there was some truth there and someone didn’t like it, So be it.
Just what the hells is going on with the airline industry?!?
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He took what, a minute, do relieve his bladder? Then they take all that time to unload all passengers, let them board again, except for him?! How ridiculous! But he’d maybe not have left cooperatively.
Maybe they should put ‘pads’ in the seatbacks, and if you need to go, you discreetly stick one into your underwear and hope it soaks up well enough.
I googled ‘guy pees on plane’ and there are previous stories and some guy who was drunk just standing up and peeing into the crack into the seat ahead of him! Then he falls and he’s still peeing and getting it on those around him!
Has stuff like this always happened, and with the internet we just hear about it all the more?
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I’m beginning to think that all big industries are nothing but monopolies or oligopolies in today’s world. We have no choices, and even when we do, it turns out that 1) the companies basically wink at each other as they all decline in product quality and customer service; 2) everything is contracted out to one manufacturer (e.g., crappy dishwashers); or 3) the “choices” we do have are between one crappy solution (e.g., FIOS) vs. a lot of even crappier solutions (e.g., DSL or comcast).
Capitalism died long ago.
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Try having badly controlled colitis and flying.
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I think the seat-back magazine pouches should be converted to urine receptacles. Easily done.
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I, for one, would pass on that if at all possible. Yes. I believe so.
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I call this a “don’t be an asshole” rule. One that allows enforcement against abuse, but permits discretionary cooperation among parties. My classic example is “no alcohol” in state park campgrounds. They really don’t care if I have a quiet beer, but need the rule to keep out drunken parties. If I decant my beer into a coffee mug, all is good.
Let the poor bastard piss for fucks sake.
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TMI ALERT
On a recent trans-pacific 13+hr flight, I decided that with about 45mins of the flight left I’d rather hold on than use the onboard loo. Bad choice. The flight was delayed a little in landing, then we seemed to do endless laps around the perimeter of LAX while waiting for the gate to clear. Eventually, after the third lap around a particular piece of taxiway and being held at some arbitrary line, I could wriggle no more. I unbuckled, leapt up, and headed for the loo. One of the hosties looked up in alarm, but must have seen the desperation in my eyes and gave me a sympathetic smile.
Ah sweet blessed relief.
On the way back to my seat I noticed that a number of the other cubicles were in use - I got the impression I broke the seal on an imminent crisis.
Dog bless Air NZ - none of the hosties made a fuss about it, and it didn’t appear that anyone was abusing relaxation of the seatbelt light rule. It may have mattered - from a security POV - that the plane was landing rather than taking off though.
Edit: I really rate Air NZ. The staff are friendly, and the service is good. On long routes Prem Econ is a really good option too, waaaaaay better than, say, Lufthansa’s. I’m not affiliated with the airline, just a happy customer.
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Yeah, I’m basically required to present a poster yearly at an academic conference. So I have to be there. In person. Because I can’t always (or, you know, ever) take the time out of the semester to drive to the location, my options are: A. Go to the conference, and don’t do my job because I have to get there. B. Don’t go to the conference, and thus… don’t do my job of going to the conference. C. Fucking Fly.
And back when I had a girlfriend who lived across the Atlantic ocean, what was I supposed to do to visit? Get on a boat? End a seven year relationship because of the TSA?
You’re able to not-fly. Good for you. For a lot of people the infrastructure of the modern world is built on flight. That’s why we get so pissed off when airlines fuck with us. We don’t have a choice.
Your solution of “Well just abandon your life, relationships, job, future career prospects so you don’t have to fly” is, shall we say, simplistic.
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And what did people do before flying was for the mass’s ?
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You did see the word if right?
But I won’t flag your post as I don’t suffer from butt-hurt.
