Bruh, RyanAir charges extra for everything. Americans are fat and and annoying, the hotels are bigger and definitely your average airline as shitty as it is is giving up more legroom.
Washington Post: FAA ask Americans to weigh in on them stopping Airline seats from shrinking
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This is a shitty take.
I live on a small island. If I want to go *anywhere*, I need to fly, unless I want to spend two literal days on a ferry to reach my country's mainland. Did I do something to deserve not being connected with the rest of the world?
The only acceptable space is the one next to the emergency exit. Just can't recline 🤦
I stand by it. The choice of where you live always comes with advantages and disadvantages. I think that flying is inacceptable, because it hurts the environment that much and if I weigh someone's vacation against future generation's lives, it is a very easy thing to say: The choice of place of living may necessitate accepting longer travelling times and / or less traveling. We do have the internet nowadays, so there is no problem of disconnect
Sorry Alvis, you're just gonna have to take the ferry so my lil' Timmy here in the west can breathe fresher air.
That's a shitty take. Some people are stuck where they live due to family reasons. Also we don't want the world to get smaller,
lord just picturing this has me sweating bullets
no choice of disconnect is a very, very ill formed assumption about the state of contemporary internet, especially for underserved markets
Bruh I didn't choose to be born on an island wtf are you on about. Real life isn't a battle royale, I didn't drop here from the battle bus. This is my home.
My country actually subsidises the cost of flights between my islands and the mainland (if you are a resident of the islands you only pay 25% of the real price so if the flight is, say, 100€, you pay 25€. If you are a mainlander wanting to visit, though, you pay the full 100€). Thank god you aren't making decisions regarding this. It would be prohibitive to go anywhere otherwise.
Right now, I'm studying a masters in the mainland (I still count as a resident of the islands because I haven't actually moved here). The only reason why I will be able to afford visiting my family this christmas is because the plane ticket cost is subsidised for me. Telling people in my situation that we shouldn't be able to afford plane tickets is how you destroy the perceived image of enviromentalism.
Also implying that because there is Internet I should just be ok with being isolated is an ass take tbh. Like don't you realise how shitty you sound by saying "there's internet so why would you want to leave your tiny island ever". Try living on a tiny island without the possibility of leaving or visiting your family/friends/etc in the mainland, see how fun it is.
Yeah totally fair!
It's not like there is nuance and usage of flights can be justified or irresponsible depending on the context. No, we should just eliminate one of mankind's best achievements and leave certain people isolated because they can just move somewhere else or use the internet amirite
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I think it's very relevant commentary to demographics here. As climate change worsens, those with more privilege like Kazooie will turn the lever of the trolley on those that have less under the noble guise of future generations. Afforded no empathy while expected to give so much more.
You would still have the option of using the ferry, which are much more efficient if used in conjunction for freight (which your island may still require) than planes. Of course it would still make travel less convenient, but not impossible either.
I do not know why you assume Alvis "has less" than me. I want climate intense behaviour to be significantly more expensive, independent on whether that impacts me personally or not. As a EU resident, I can visit a bunch of different areas without air travel in a reasonable time, but I also want to make cars and fuel much more expensive and my favourite kind of food, meat, as well. Moreover, I think that flights whenever train connections exist, should be illegal, which is something that would limit my area much mire than Alvis'.
Many people do not have this choice, this privilege, regardless of whatever else they may have.
How to know you've never spent 2 days in a ferry: telling people that spending 2 days in a ferry (+whatever it takes to move towards your final destinations in the mainland) is a reasonable option.
The ferry is what you take when you're moving permanently and taking your car and all your possessions with you, not what you take when you want to visit your family for a few days. It's not viable. I want you to understand that what you're saying is that the regular working folk shouldn't be allowed to visit their family for 3 days during a long weekend or whatever.
Thankfully you will never be making these kind of decisions, so I'm done with this conversation.
So, I'm 6'4" and obviously I hate flying because of the seating (and the whole airport experience sucks as well but that's a different issue). That said, this hatred is universal no matter a person's size. The only difference is I feel like my life is actively being shortened when I fly compared to someone who is 5'6" or whatever. I've never met anyone of any size that thinks airplane seating is great. At best there's maybe some who are indifferent to airplane seating but that's about it. The only people who like seating on an airplane are people who travel first class or in a private jet. That's it.
So I need to post here because of what happened the day before yesterday.
My brother and I flew to Florida in Coach on American Airlines to go on vacation to Disney and Universal. American decides to sit my brother and I, two fully grown men, in MIDDLE seats in rows of three. And I'm seated in between two fully grown men.
I'm 6'1, and let me tell you, unless I have a drink or two and feel particularly horny, I don't want to be in between two fully grown men in a cramped space.
During this four hour flight, the man in the aisle seat gets up and I take this opportunity to use the restroom. I relieve myself, come back to my seat, and proceed to squeeze and comparmentalize myself back in the middle.
Because of how I had to contort myself to sit back in the middle, I completely fucked up my left knee and now can barely walk, let alone run, which is practically a necessity for moving around these crowded as fuck theme parks.
Airline seats as they are right now are literally a health hazard.
The thought that there are people who think: "Airline seats are still too fucking big, we need them to be smaller" makes me want to take a kitchen knife and plunge it into my already fucked up knee.
My brother and I flew to Florida in Coach on American Airlines to go on vacation to Disney and Universal. American decides to sit my brother and I, two fully grown men, in MIDDLE seats in rows of three. And I'm seated in between two fully grown men.
I'm 6'1, and let me tell you, unless I have a drink or two and feel particularly horny, I don't want to be in between two fully grown men in a cramped space.
During this four hour flight, the man in the aisle seat gets up and I take this opportunity to use the restroom. I relieve myself, come back to my seat, and proceed to squeeze and comparmentalize myself back in the middle.
Because of how I had to contort myself to sit back in the middle, I completely fucked up my left knee and now can barely walk, let alone run, which is practically a necessity for moving around these crowded as fuck theme parks.
Airline seats as they are right now are literally a health hazard.
The thought that there are people who think: "Airline seats are still too fucking big, we need them to be smaller" makes me want to take a kitchen knife and plunge it into my already fucked up knee.
Think of all the elderly people that fly and have to be crammed into spaces like this for hours... this might be passable for younger people but I don't want to be on a flight with groaning and crying old people freaking out because they can't move their legs during a flight.