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[–] chosensilence@pawb.social 49 points 21 hours ago (5 children)

bye bye~! let this happen to the rest too. i hope the airline industry crashes and has to be nationalized or some shit idk. better than this. anything would be better than the current mess we have.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 17 hours ago

At this point I agree, but solely because I'm from Boeing country, and holy mother of fuck do I hate Boeing and the absolute horseshit they've been doing for the last 20 years.

Fuck McDonnnell Douglas, goddamn finance bros wore Boeing like a skin suit and destroyed the company.

[–] magnue@lemmy.world 34 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

I think there will be a time in the future where people will look at how frivolously we travelled around the world with a level of disgust.

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 22 points 20 hours ago

Why does it have to be in the future? I feel that way right now.

[–] fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 12 points 20 hours ago (5 children)

There's nothing wrong with travel. It's airplane emissions that's the problem

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[–] Casterial@lemmy.world 24 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

People complain video games have too many micro transactions, but they learned from the American airline companies.

I can take a 2hr trip in Asia and get a full damn meal.

[–] FrChazzz@lemmus.org 3 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (2 children)

I went to rural Thailand back in 2007 to teach English for a month with a group from my university. Our plane died at the gate in Miami and, in order to make all of our connections to get to Thailand we made last minute changes that put us on Thai Air from LAX. Best damn flight I've ever been on and it was in basic, seated in the absolute middle of the middle section and I'm someone who's unable to sleep on a plane unless I have the window. So I was awake for most of those 17.5 hours. Plane was beautiful, crew was beautiful and friendly. There was framed art on the walls and multiple full meals on the flight.

EDIT: Forgot to finish before I posted. The trip back we took Northwestern Airlines and, hoo boy. Meals were served out of a sense of obligation, stacked at last seat of the row to be passed out ourselves. When we hit the part where they wanted people's seat backs and tray tables up they just went down the row and grabbed end seats with people asleep in them and pushing them up. Such a stark difference.

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[–] TheJesusaurus@piefed.ca 12 points 19 hours ago

God damn son, you commie fuck, won't you think about the shareholders?

Some guy could buy his 3rd yacht if you weren't so fucking greedy that you need to be "treated like a human being with a modicum if dignity"

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[–] ImgurRefugee114@reddthat.com 32 points 20 hours ago

Cant wait for all the planes to become mobile spirit Halloweens

[–] expatriado@lemmy.world 4 points 20 hours ago

there is guys, we lost the spirit, the rest of the economy goes next

[–] Bonesince1997@lemmy.world 2 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

Pilots bailing out mid flights /s

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