[Butch Cassidy Slept Here]

Because “airline sympathizer” is, really, a GENEROUS term for people who not only defend the practices listed below, but call people who object to them mentally ill.

· Airlines that try to cram as many flights as possible into the shortest time span possible thereby assuring massive delays will happen when there is anything less than ideal weather—and the government agencies that allow this!
· Airlines that hire street thugs for baggage handlers because they don’t want to pay decent wages/benefits.
· Airlines that offer reclining seats when common sense, such as a narrow seat pitch, says there shouldn’t be any reclining seats.
· Airlines that offer unhealthy seat pitches—like 31” on a 2+ hour flight.
· Airlines that have call centers in India and similar places.
· Airlines that allow their flight attendants to “hide” in the galley.
· Airlines that hire, and retain, borderline sociopathic/power drunk flight attendants and gate staff. And, again, the government agencies that allow, and enable, this behavior. If customers follow basic rules of social decency, then staff should reciprocate!

Would air fares go up if any, or all, of these points were acted on? Certainly! Would air travel return to the civility I, and others, knew several decades ago? You betcha!