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I quit flying the big 4 who control 80% of available seats years ago. When I fly (and I try to avoid it whenever practical) I only use Southwest. If I'm going to fly with the unwashed masses, at least it's good to know they won't lose my bags, while they feed me peanuts and low cost alcoholic beverages all while enjoying time in an aluminum incubator with sniveling kids, flatulence, and a couple of potential Ebola carriers. Plus, it's so fun reading the Sky Mall magazine, which has some awesome welcome mats for Chairman Meow's litter box.

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Just wait until they unveil their new "shoehorn" economy class.

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and pay toilets

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that's why I fly southwest every chance I get- 2 free checked bags, less ratfuckery with monetized boarding/seating, better legroom without having to buy first class, they don't stick you on a CRJ that has overhead bins the size of a postage stamp and they are on time more often than the big boys.

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Hughes AirWest or GTFO

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Frontier are also outsourcing their baggage handling.

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I haven't flown on a plane at all in the past decade. I can't afford to travel by air because I can't afford to travel, period. It's really annoying because I have always been interested in getting out and seeing the world. But in my first 60 years I have rarely ventured outside of the northeastern US, and the only country I have visited outside of the US has been Canada. (Lovely places there, but it's a big world and I want to see more of it.) If my career arc had continued to follow the course I had diligently prepared for it I would be going to those places now, but instead it was prematurely ended in 2008. Since then I have just been treading water while I wait and hope for the tide to come back around and carry me back to shore. It has taken much longer to do so than I had anticipated. I fully expect to be kicking, breathing and raising hell for some time to come, but still, my time here is not unlimited. How many more of my remaining years will I have to burn simply waiting for things to get back on track so that I can get back to living again? I hate this feeling of being adrift.

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Two levels up from Steerage.

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PEOPLExpress or GTFO.

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Flew in from Miami Beach BOAC -- man I had a dreadful flight.

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You can't hop a jet plane, like you can a freight train...

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