It Is All In The Flight

I was just recently on a flight from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh which has inspired me to write my first Blog entry that may or may not cause controversy.
I have flown a TON in my life and remember a time when flying wasn't a dreadful thing. Now, all I do is DREAD getting on a plane and the hassle of the entire event from purchasing the tickets to finding my luggage at the end of the trip. In my short little life and many times on planes I have had emergency landings, no take offs or canceled flights, delayed flights, damaged luggage, lost luggage and a whole lot of BAD customer service! I want to understand why I keep paying more and more to take a flight yet everything about my short trip goes wrong. I want to understand how airlines can get away with hiking up the costs without taking any responsibilities.
Here I will mention things that are just completely making my blood boil as it may be doing to you as well:
1. No more in flight meals. Yes, they stunk but come on! I am already paying hundreds of dollars to travel across country and now I have to pay an extra 12 bucks for the crappy meal! You must be joking right? Save your crap-o-meal for some other rich sucker, for now I will stick to bringing my own food until they catch on and start charging me to do that as well.
2. On the food topic they are rarely giving out snacks such as peanuts and pretzels. Where do they even find someone to manufacture the bags that hold five mini pretzels and about 15 peanuts anyway? Can't you at least give us a normal size bag that mom pack in kids lunches? Or go back to the original size they used to be before you started to go cheap.
3. You want a drink? Oh well you are lucky if you even get a glass full of your favorite soft drink. Ice fills the entire cup (why? because it is cheaper) so you are lucky to get about 3 gulps of liquid on your flight. Cans? Haha, I don't think so!
4. Has anyone noticed the seats getting smaller and closer together? Well that is because they are! Yes, a 50 pound, 4'5 inch genius decided that the rest of America is also that tiny and came up with a plan to shove more people onto a plane. Make smaller seats and put them closer together. Well guess what genius, most of America is NOT that small and needs more room. I find myself sniffing Mr. Greasy hair in front of me and me practically holding hands with the person next to me because of your genius idea! Also, if you did not know they charge you for seat location. Windows and isles are more then the middle seat or a seat near the stinky restroom.
5. Back in the day you could watch a movie or listen to the music for free. Yes, for FREE. Not any longer. They charge you for ear phones which they have so cleverly designed to be all different in the plug in units each airline uses. Not a huge deal since this was in place for years but what is starting to annoy me is that after they charge me 5 bucks for them they are trying to collect them back! Get out of town. You want it back then don't charge me 5 bucks for it in the first place.
6. Every single flight I have been on leaving or entering Philadelphia has been LATE! What the heck is that about? How hard is it to load a plane and empty it? I get every now and again you run into a problem but EVERY SINGLE time?! Yet, my seat gets taken away if I am late. Why can't I charge you for a late flight? Only fair I think. I have places to go too.
7. Lost luggage. Come on, seriously? My flight from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh, a 45 minute trip there they managed to lose my luggage. A 45 minute flight! How hard is it. Put a damn tag that says where its going in very LARGE print on my bag and drive it to the freakin plane. On my flight back a day and a half later guess what? Yep, lost my luggage from Pittsburgh to Philadelphia! This flight was only 35 minutes. The only explanation I can come up with is that they have people who can NOT read trying to figure out where my bag is going.
8. Security...I am all for it but what I am not for is rooting through my personal bag. You cut the locks off but yet I feel they need to be on there from so many that have reported items stolen from luggage. That is real nice. Yep, everyday hundreds report missing items from their luggage. It has been recommended you remove tags from new clothing because those are the first things the steal. Yet don't you dare try and stop it by locking your bag because they will snip that lock right on off!
9. Security #2...I do NOT feel any safer when everyone has to remove their shoes a mile back to have them go through security. All the technology out there and no one can come up with a system that works better? I am tired of walking on a dirty floor for miles. Yes, some will say just bring a pair of flip flops. Or, its for your safety. They will find some other way to hide stuff and then before you know it everyone will have to go through security naked.
10. People with the large bags. What ever happened to the box? You know the one if you couldn't fit your item into it, it was too large to take onboard. Now I take a small bag and a purse on the plane and put my purse under my seat which allows me what little leg room is left due to the cramped seating arrangements now. I put my small bag above but learn there is no room because of the LARGE ridiculous bags people are now allowed to bring aboard. Then the hostess comes around lifts my small bag up and asks, "who's bag is this?" "Can we put this bag under your seat to make room for the overly large bags that cant fit under the seats?" My answer is NO! Not my fault they had to be so rude and bring a large bag. Put my small bag under their seat since they are sitting so comfortably with nothing under theirs.
11. The newest one is charging customers for a second luggage. WHAT? Say it aint so. I think the dimwits did this because remember they hired a non intelligent nincompoop who cant read to put the bags on the plane. Charging me extra for a second luggage! INSANITY I tell you.
12. incompetent employees and cranky hostess. I get you have to deal with customers but do you realize we are cranky because of all the things we had to just endure on our trip? I mean I printed my receipt and notice about 50 different kinds of taxes for the original flight that cost me 100 bucks now costs me with all that about 350 bucks. I must leave 4 hours before my flight in order to miss traffic and ensure some ninny doesn't give my seat away. I then have to stand in line to check in because the self check lines are all closed. Passengers who can't be responsible and wake up on time gets to cut in line because they will miss their flights. I continue standing in line because there are about a half dozen flight employees standing around doing absolutely nothing while the line continues to grow and 2 people are actually doing work. Then I must empty my pockets, take off all my accessories (earrings, rings, watch, bracelets, necklaces, belts, etc), take off my coat, take out all small liquids and put them in a clear baggy that is the accurate size, take out my computer from the computer bag if I have it with me, take off my shoes and walk another mile while holding all these items, and deal with the big mouth with a badge yelling at me to have my ticket and ID in my hand and keep the line moving. After I get back dressed and replace all my items back to where they were in the first place I get motioned to be pulled over to the side to be wand down. Spread them! They get to my boobs and ask, "are you wearing an under wire?" "Yes", I simply state. "We recommend when you come to the airport you don't wear that kind of bra, it makes our job that much harder." Oh well excuse me, wouldn't want to do that. Now I have about a 2 mile hike to my gate with kids running amuck and idiots on their cell phones stopping in the walk way. I realize I have to go to the ladies room and have to stand in a 20 min line. Don't get me started on the dealings of a ladies restroom! I finally come out and see a seat to rest my exhausted body. I plop down and realize my gate has been change to the other side of the terminal! Now my flight boards soon so up I get with all my stuff in toe. I begin to race to the new gate. I am now sweating and a little frustrated. FYI, this is why some people have unpleasant odors on the plane. ;) Now I load and have to deal with no room for my small bags, people taking up my seat room, smelly haired man in front of me, no meal and a snotty hostess! NOW DO YOU SEE WHY WE ARE CRANKY PASSANGERS?! DEAL WITH IT!

So my question to America is why do we let them get away with this? They charge us for EVERYTHING and I don't get delivered on time, my bags don't show up, which I paid for and their is absolutely NO customer service. Someone tell me why in this day and age we deal with this?

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MIA

I know I haven't blogged in a bit but my life has been busy and then not so much. All the things that have been keeping me busy are not worthy of writing about. I havd always wanted to just write about things that spark any kind of emotion. I haven't done so because I am not the best of writers and I am also affraid of making people mad if they don't agree with my opinions. However, I sit here and think, well I have an empty blog and might as well just go for it. I would love to get others opinions on things so might as well just go for it, right? So, stay tuned...