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Now you're saying that regular people shouldn't fly, and it should be reserved for the upper class? I mean, what the hell are you even talking about?

If the whole plane is first-class width, that's x% of fewer seats and thus, the price goes up y%.  My point isn't that the new price + the y% would price normal people out, that's what you're trying to say.  And it's BS. 

Let's say it's 33%.......33% fewer seats and ticket prices go up 33%.  There's no more packing people in like sardines for a cheaper ticket, the price is what it is and you get a comfortable flight. 
People would fly less often.  Fewer people would fly.  The airlines would probably fold. 

And then you could go down the argument that flight has become essential and that it must exist, despite the shit economics behind it, and it would probably then be run by the government.  "Gov't running things poorly" jokes aside, with a default comfy seat and the gov't footing the bill, that would be an interesting air travel landscape, no?

It beats airlines barely scraping by WHILE packing us in like sardines.

I wonder what effect high-speed rail would have on flying if we ever actually utilized it.

This is so lazy.

I simply like to progress beyond "you're wrong", "no YOU'RE wrong" and explore differences of opinion. 

Such tomfoolery on a MESSAGE BOARD, I know.

The airlines are fine. COVID kinda screwed them, but once we got out of that, they've been alright. They've done a halfway decent job of aligning their number of flight options to consumer demand such that nearly every flight is full.

People bitch about the flight experience, but you know what? They still keep effing flying! If their preferences changed (and they actually spent money to reflect those preferences) the situation would be different.

You seem to want to turn flying into some sort of luxury good when it seems the world as a whole looks at it as another method of transportation subject to normal market economics, which is how we got here.

Flying is just riding the big Greyhound in the sky. Some people who would NEVER ride Greyhound lament the fact that the "prestige" of air travel is gone. But they aren't spending the money to bring it back, so screw 'em.

Covid didn't screw them...