A tale of modern air travel

I travel extensively and therefore have traversed many an airports, in many countries. And they have an insidious process advanced and still developing.

Hearding

First they get you to the airport 2 hours early so you have more time waiting and of course shopping. They offer “Tax Free” incentives to entice you, but it is getting far more controlling. They channel you from security line through these stores... but wait it is getting far more complicated now. They have changed some walks from cutting directly through the store to now winding back and forth through the store which takes substantially longer. Ad to that no clear signs guiding one to the gate, this is clearly to get you to stay longer and possibly see something to purchase.

Once on the plane

So that experience above was in Lisbon Portugal airport, boarding the plane for a seven hour flight. I noticed there were no personal entertainment devices. This was not my first time encountering such a low class maneuver by an airline.

This airline purports to be the worlds largest... rapidly turning into the worlds worst option for long hall flights. This was an American Airline Boeing 767. This is a fairly new model and large enough with 2-3-2 seating across.

What they want you to now do is join their in air WiFi (yes for an additional cost), so you can stream on your phone or device. They also show up with headsets 30 minutes into the small randomly positioned monitors. You are forced to watch the politically slanted NBC network as the only option. This channel wreaks of social Liberian forcing political agenda. So not only are they conditioning people to open their phones access to an insecure WiFi channel, you must pay the extra... oh and they are working toward everyone brining their own earphones.

I could rant on

I have close to 3 million miles on American and their highest flying status. You would think they would treat their flyers better, especially their long time clients.

So what to do

Loyalty to a corporate structure makes us just a heard mentality society (I fell victim). If we now have crypto awards like earning Bitcoin from a travel company through Lolli, they will need to again earn our business. If we can sit in economy with SATS in our wallets, that will be our comfort instead. And we will break free of their special programs and that hearded mentality.

And we are free to make other choices than their lessening service and hearding practices.

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