Those skies aren’t so friendly after all…

Posted on May 21, 2008 in Everyday, Rants | 1 comment

My parents are leaving me for the weekend starting tomorrow so that means I’ll be left to my own devices when it comes to feeding myself. I’ll only need to worry about 3 nights…considering that I’ll most likely just succumb to something simple like cereal or ramen tomorrow night but Friday is looking like an early release day at work and then there is Saturday and most likely Sunday since that’s when they get back. And by dinner I don’t mean downing a pack of King Hawaiian Sweet Dinner rolls just because I can.

Okay this is off topic but is another else annoyed at all the new ways airlines are trying to recoup some of the costs to cover the rise in fuel? Now American Airlines is planning on charging $15 to check a bag. Not a second or third bag, but your first bag. Man this is ridiculous. I wouldn’t care if it weren’t for that stupid size restriction of liquids in carry-on bags now. Stupid terrorists…always gotta ruin things for the rest of us. Sheesh. I remember when we used to be able to take two bags on free of charge. And that was when I was still in college! The thing that sucks is while the airlines [and not all of them] are finding new ways to fleece the customers in order to line their pocket; the service is just going to continue to deteriorate anyway. Its bad enough that on some lines you have to pay for their crappy food [and the offerings in the terminal, while better are expensive!], now I have to pay because I need more than 3 ounces of body wash to last me the week? I’m going to do my best to avoid flying American Airlines and hope that the other airlines don’t follow suit. Because all this extra fees crap is nonsense. NONSENSE.

This fuel crap is starting to make it hard to travel period. Gas is super expensive everywhere so you have to plan your road trips wisely. Then plane tickets keep increasing to cover losses from the rising cost of fuels and as the companies scramble to make up the cash they cut flights, services, increase fees, merge with one another and tighten the competitive market, completely oversell their planes and then make it impossible to pack [can’t fit that in the carry on? Well for just $15 we’ll be happy to take care of it for you…]. It is just frustrating. At this rate, it’ll go back to the days when you had to be rich to afford a flight!

Yes I also know that people are losing their jobs as well with the cut flights and grounded planes and whatnot but why not cut the salaries of the top executives? There’s got to be some extra money they can free up from there. Is that even possible? But this is the thing that gets me, if one airline does something, soon the other will follow meaning is this only a matter of time before the majority of the airlines are charging to check baggage? I guess I’ll have to start keeping an extra set of toiletries with the bf so I won’t have to worry about finding travel sized bottles to put stuff in. But by that logic I should just buy a whole new wardrobe to keep with him so I don’t have to pack anything!

So let me say this, as a survivor of working with the general public in an Unemployment office for one summer, people, be nice to the desk people. It’s not their fault the company is being stupid.