When did flying on an airplane become boring and dull and soulless?

[MrJokerRager]

 

[MrTroll]

9/11 really ruined flying. Back in the day, you could carry on guns, knives, bombs, chemical weapons, Schedule I controlled substances--you name it, the airlines were cool with it. Wanted to shoot up heroin mid-flight? No problem. Suitcase making a conspicuous ticking sound? No one would bat an eye. You could even pull out a sweet Dirty Harry-style magnum and spin it around on your finger like an old west gunslinger. Sure, occasionally the thing would go off and hit a stewardess, but they're easy enough to replace.

 

[Van Darkholme]

Just let me take my bottle of water from home on board, you niggers.

 

[Hongourable Madisha]

Last time I went on a Mediterranean package holiday (as is my right as a proud Britbong) there was a giant troon cabin crewman dressed up as the most stereotypical air hostess and he led the whole plane in cheering that we'd arrived. I wish flying were more boring.

Usually the airport is more like this

 

[Local Wordmason]

Airlines wanting to fit more and more passengers on a plane to squeeze out every possible penny from each flight. It went from a flying passenger train, to a flying cattle car.
We used to have shit like piano bars and real restaurants on planes. Shit could be so much nicer but these companies are kikes and don't want us to be happy, they want our money and nothing else.

Also yeah 9/11 did a number on the whole process of flying and made it way more complicated.

 

[Your Starter for 10]

When it became affordable. When working class whites could afford to fly more than once every few years, it became dull and soulless. When minorities and foreigners could afford to fly it became a miserable experience all together.

 

[We Are The Witches]

It's the same thing like when people nowadays (and in the future) will take AI for granted, or any other technology, because it's no longer a new thing.

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I went flying recently, the dude in front of me was watching shitty videos on his phone, I was just looking at the clouds.

As long as you don't get rude people near you, it's a fine experience, although I dislike airports and the stress of having to deal with disrespectful people.

 

[Vect]

Bring back Concord, airlines.

The Nazis did it.

 

[Sparkletor 2.0]

Nigga, you on tha wrong plane.

 

[⚞⛇⚟]

As soon as they added walls to planes.

would you rather be in this plane, where you can feel and see the sky?

or be inside of this lame piece of shit?

 

[Beardless Lenin]

As soon as they added walls to planes.
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would you rather be in this plane, where you can feel and see the sky?
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or be inside of this lame piece of shit?

If there were no walls then I'd be able to grab all the birds while flying, bring 'em on.

 

[BiggestKai]

It's the same thing like when people nowadays (and in the future) will take AI for granted, or any other technology, because it's no longer a new thing.

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I went flying recently, the dude in front of me was watching shitty videos on his phone, I was just looking at the clouds.

As long as you don't get rude people near you, it's a fine experience, although I dislike airports and the stress of having to deal with disrespectful people.

It's extremely comfy reading books on a plane, especially if it's a really long flight and you finish a book from page 1 in the ~10 miserable hours you'd otherwise have on a plane. I read through The Runaway Jury on a Dallas-Heathrow flight that would have otherwise been unbearable due to health reasons and I enjoyed it a lot.

I felt really bad afterwards because the following connecting flight had what I assume was an american family; I really wished I could do something for the dad because his (teenage?) children were being little shits who decided to just sit in business/first class because there was space there and ended up having an upgraded meal at the expense of someone else.

So he had to sit there being told by the hostesses that there will be a complaint made and then his wife going "I don't get why they're making such a big fuss about it this must be a bad airline if they keep acting like we did anything wrong" and then his children arguing that "actually you're to blame for this - no you're to blame for this" and his son refusing to go and get his sister's bag from business class. Then at the end of the flight I heard him mumble something about a long train ride that I might have made once before. Poor guy.

 

[Grub]

Go on a sea plane on a windy day. That shit was like being on a roller coaster. Probably would have enjoyed it more if I hadn't stayed up until 3 or 4 in the morning being drunk and ridiculous the night before the 730 am flight.

 

[Schwarzwald]

When stewardesses stopped being pretty by requirement and they switched them with "flight attendants" plus they stopped encouraging pilots to be drunk or at least tipsy every flight. It is a travesty.

Back in the day if you said you joined the Mile High Club with a stewardess you'd get a high five. Nowadays if you said you joined the Mile High Club with a flight attendant nobody is touching your hand because you probably have Monkeypox.

 

[Pee Cola]

Air travel started to suck when airport terminals no longer looked like this



passengers stopped dressing like this



and when stewardesses stopped wearing hats (and stopped being stuardesses for that matter)

 

[SirCliveSinclairdabbing]

P/L.
Last time I was on a plane I was in the smoking section with a bum bag full of flick knifes, the headphones had 2 pins that plugged into the armrest, there was one movie screen for about 50 seats and the country we were leaving no longer exists. (Null used to live in one of the countries that existed after the split) We literally left a war zone, the next airport up the coast was being bombed (also Split) that day. We also circled on arrival to burn off fuel because the landing gear was fucked. Yugotours were fucking brilliant.

I don't want to sully that memory with a post 9/11 hyper security experience.

 

[Trump's Chosen]

You want to play pacman? No? Guess what, novelty wears off.

 

[Thiletonomics]

Bring back Concord, airlines.

The Nazis did it.

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Sadly, if the West were to bring Concord back, it'd be this one:



Back to the topic, the increasing amount of airplane incidents due to things such as Boeing bean-counters cheapening out on airplane build quality, airlines cost-cutting in general, incompetent staff being hired to only meet DiVeRsItY quotas, and dysfunctional Korean pilots that just end up crashing planes, is why air travel is becoming less exciting.

 

[Party Hat Wurmple]

Meh, I took a long international flight not too long ago. It was quite nice. I had no issues. Food wasn't terrible. Booze was free. Had a whole row to myself. Decent movies. I was able to get comfortable just fine. Stuards/esses were nice. Passengers were okay. Didn't have anyone behind me so my seat could go back and I could sleep. Overall, if I had to do it again, it's not the worst thing. If I had no layovers I would've been better.

 

[THE SUPREME ONION]

only if you are flying like a GAY FAGGOT

me on the other hand i go OUTSIDE the lane by holding on the wing like a true man fuck the airlines companies i aint paying to fly mf