Come Fly With Me???????????

There was a time when the airline industry as a whole was sold on the basis that they really enjoyed having you fly with them. Not that it was just a job that they had to do to get the contract to fly the mail. It was up to the customers who flew and how they dressed. Now one airline has decided that they are the conveyors of taste in this country. Well we have no taste in this country. Have you been shopping lately? How many women have you seen where their pants are so tight that you know they are not wearing anything under them or those with white pants and black thongs that leave nothing hidden? That is to leave out those who may as well not be wearing pants because you can clearly define the “hidden” structure. I will get to bras that show all at some other time. So now that airline has determined that a woman in a short skirt will show too much. Who will see it? The seats are so close together that it would be impossible to see anything unless you crawl under the seat in front of her. This young lady doesn’t care and has gone on national television to prove it. She did get publicity and a couple of free airline tickets that will allow her to travel and be harassed again in the future.
The airline seems to want us to go back in time to where men wore suits and ties and women wore hats and gloves when they went on an airline trip. Just catch some of the old movies of people leaving Glendale for the east coast. We do not want to go back to the time of the DC3 and its noise and dirt. We now have airplanes that are so big that you plan your vacation around the time it takes to get your baggage after the flight.
That is only one part of the downfall of flying enjoyment. It was once fun to travel to the airport to see that latest aircraft and the way people went crazy to catch a flight. LAX was so diverse you could spend hours just people watching. I would go to the airport early to meet friends or family on a flight. It meant that you had entertainment while you waited. On a trip to Denver we actually planned to get to the airport early so that our young son could spend some time eating and watching the airplanes arrive and then 20 minuets later watch them all leave again. You know how the infamous hub system works. Now you are hidden in the baggage area. It still can be fun until people think you work there and start asking directions.
We must also consider all of the time that it takes to get from the front of the airport to the gate. When you do it in 30 minutes or less you consider that a miracle has occurred. Some of the airlines are trying but are advanced boarding passes designed to help the passenger or to cut the number of people working on the flight? With less people working, those who do work are under more stress from the people who do not care and have less time to enjoy the experience with the people who are at the airport. Yes the working people can enjoy the customers. That is one of the things in working with people that makes it more of an experience and less of a drudge for both parties.