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It's getting around to that time of year again. The dreaded
trip back to North Bay, on April 23rd. Florida vacation will
be over.
With earlier arrival times, long line security checks,
people under stress, screaming kids,
coping with tickets ,passports, and baggage, long walking
distances to your departure gate.Well you know the drill if
you have flown recently.
Air travel once something to look forward to is now 2 1/2
hours of discomfort,in our case, once you manage to get on
the plane.
It's not surprising that passengers are getting grumpier. Of
course the older I get the grumpier I get.
Carriers keep shrinking the size of seats in order to stuff
more people into planes. Empty middle seats that might
provide a little more room have vanished.
And more people who have bought tickets are being turned
away because flights are overbooked.
The way airlines have taken 130-seat airplanes and expanded
them to 150 seats to squeeze out more revenue, I think, is
finally catching up with them. I'm not the smallest of guys
at over 6 ft. and 200 lbs. and I barely fit in those
uncomfortable seats. There is no way a person can go to the
loo without having to ask  people to stand up while you
leave your window seat and then again on reciprorue.
People are saying, Look, I don't fit here. Do something
about this.
At some point airlines can't keep shrinking seats to put
more people into the same tube.
It used to be in cases of overbookings that airlines usually
could find a passenger who would volunteer to give up a seat
in exchange for cash, a free ticket or some other
compensation with the expectation of catching another flight
later that day or the next morning. Not anymore.
Since flights are so full, there are no seats on those next
flights. So people say, No, not for $500, not for $1,000. 
 

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