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I write for a small print entertainment publication in KC once a week and am weekly given a subject to discuss - should the response be well thought out, snarky or loaded with enough profanity it gets published. This weeks topic questions excess charges that are now being tacked onto flying travelers who choose to carry additional luggage. My immediate thought was the rant Louis CK brilliantly expressed on Conan O’Brien:
“Flying is the worst one because people come back from flights and tell your their story like a horror story - it’s like their flight was a cattle car in the 40’s in Germany, that’s how bad they make it sound. ‘It was the worst day of my life, first of all we didn’t board for 20 minutes and then we get on the plane and they made us sit there, on the runway, for 40 minutes.’ Oh really what happened next, did you fly through the air incredibly like a bird, did you partake in the miracle of flight you non contributing zero that you got to fly - you’re flying. Everybody on every plane should constantly be going ‘oh my god….Wow.’ You’re sitting in a chair in the sky. People also complain about delays - NY to CA takes 5 hours, that used to take 30 years and a bunch of you would die on the way there. Now you watch a movie, take a dump and you’re home”
Under the assumption that those flying have sufficient expendable income to be taking said trip, an additional $10 - $20 baggage fee on top of your already $200 plane ticket should not be an issue. Worse case scenario, offset your cost by eating out one less night or opt out buying that last shot round for the table of assumed single women across the bar. Meeting adjourned.
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