I’m trying to collect my thoughts on what individuals can do to make flying suck less. All I have so far is “fly as little as possible,” and “spend a extra few dollars if you can find an airline that doesn’t treat you like a piece of meat.”
Oh, yes, and: before pricing flights on Expedia, Travelocity and the like, go to the boutique airlines first: Continental, Virgin America (for Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Boston, San Francisco, New York, San Diego, Seattle, and Washington, D.C.), Southwest. See what they have, because those airlines don’t always appear on the big air-ticket auction sites. (I do not know whether Midwest Airlines is one of them; I do know that I travelled with them twice, and got big, warm chocolate-chip cookies both times, so if I ever get a chance to fly with them again I shall do so. I’m fundamentally easy to please.)
I also want to look into those separate luggage-shipping services, since so much of the annoyance of air travel has to do with the shlepping aspect.
If I can afford it, I’ll try to join Flyclear, so I can get through security a bit more quickly.
I’m also keeping a personal blacklist of airlines that have treated me so badly I will never fly with them again. U.S. Airways leads the list, right now. Because it sucks.)
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The flying experience has become so miserable that I am trying to structure my life to avoid ever having to do it. If I’m going overseas, well, yeah, OK. But for a drive of less than, say, 14 hours, I’ll drive instead. The time varies from a clear win to a clear loss, but I avoid the aggravation and I have my own car at the other end.
Too bad. I used to love to fly.