subject: Cheaper Rates Often Mean Unappealing Flights [print this page] Flying is not funFlying is not fun. Being in the air and soaring through the clouds is fun, but the process of flying commercially these days has just gotten way out of hand. In the old days, when flying was an event because not many people were able to do it and it required people to get dressed up and treat it like a special event, it was a process. But it was a fun process, it was glamorous and special. It was something that you bragged to the neighbors about and it made you feel almost like a movie star.
There was a time when the pilots were admired and stopped short of being the hero's of the open skies, while being flanked by the gorgeous and glamorous friendly stewardesses that make the fights more enjoyable. This was the fight descriptions of a past aviation era that has been replaced with a much different air travel industry traveling experience that is faced with major problem on all fronts that must be dealt with quickly and efficiently if it is to survive into the next era.
Time and schedules seems to be the things most people are concerning themselves with and has replaced patience and a wholesome experience as the preferred choice of mental activities. It easily shows up in what we feed our bodies daily, letting fast food pit stops replace good wholesome home cooked meals made from scratch and not shot out of a prepackaging plant. The scene looks more like a fast moving train with stations to exit at will, making it and us the real problems on the real world stage.
Most everyone has complained about poor services and how they feel like a number with a name like a cow with a ear ID tag. However, society largely refuses to pay for other services. Round trip tickets to most anywhere cost money as does ocean going vessels and these transportation industries could soon go the way of extinct creatures of old, unless the begin to make enough profit to operate successful. It is one thing to try to make travel affordable, but a totally different thing to put yourself out of business in the process.
They need to fill their giant planes with paying passengers, but they have to have it crammed full in order to make any money. It is a process that just keeps looping and repeating itself. Maybe not everybody is supposed to travel by air. Maybe driving is the better option for some people. With so many people and everything being overcrowded as it is, maybe there are some other alternatives.
