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

When ticket prices went down and even retards were able to afford to fly.

I still like the idea of flying and will always pick a window seat, but I fucking hate everything else that goes into it. Like going to the airport and somehow getting stuck behind every retard who apparently has never fucking flown before in the security. When I'm on the plane I'm always worried I'm gonna get stuck sitting next to some fat asshole whose rolls spill over the armrest. Then getting off the plane takes forever since people can't fuckin figure out how to fuckin zipper merge into the damn aisle.

I typically fly Delta which I know some people bitch about but of airlines I've tried they're the best. Like I flew Southwest one time cause I was going to Tampa for work and it was so much fucking worse. Like they board in a complete free for all and their typical cliental is basically people of Walmart level.
 
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The real answer is in 1978 Congress passed the airline deregulation act. Before then, the price of a ticket for any given route was fixed by the government. Since airlines couldn't compete on fares, they would compete on offering the nicest service, most comfortable planes, best food, etc. Once they were allowed to compete on fares, that all got thrown out the window. 9/11 just made it even shittier.
 
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𝕺𝖑' 𝕯𝖎𝖗𝖙𝖞 𝕱𝖆𝖙𝖘𝖔 said:
The real answer is in 1978 Congress passed the airline deregulation act. Before then, the price of a ticket for any given route was fixed by the government. Since airlines couldn't compete on fares, they would compete on offering the nicest service, most comfortable planes, best food, etc. Once they were allowed to compete on fares, that all got thrown out the window. 9/11 just made it even shittier.
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Yep, before deregulation, prices were at least 3 times the current prices.
 
I don't feel like digging him up right now but Phil Edwards made a video on it and the answer is when they lifted price controls.
Those airplanes were classy because the shitbag government required them to have few seats and charge crazy high prices. basically, you didn't have a choice of luxury vs cheap airlines, EVERYBODY gets luxury and EVERYBODY pays luxury prices regardless of if they want luxury prices or not.

Without the ability to compete on price, they competed on amenities.

Edit: Fuck it, here it is:
 
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Overwritten Tapes said:
Last time I flew, was in 2011. It sucked about as bad as in 1999. Only difference was I was getting "random" searches every time i got off a plane.
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My first flight came over a decade after 9/11, so I don't really have any personal perspective on whether it was really that much better to fly before then than after. It's definitely not the reason for the change that the OP's referring to, though. By 1999, any airplane other than the Concorde was already pretty much just a Greyhound bus with wings.

I don't necessarily think that's a bad thing, though. The whole "Golden Age" of aviation was the result of air travel being a luxury service and, by the 1960s at the latest, that was mostly an artificial situation propped up by legislation that kept seats unaffordable. It might have been a hell of a lot nicer to take an intercontinental flight in 1965 than in 2025, but a lot of us wouldn't have had a realistic chance of taking an intercontinental flight at all in 1965.
 
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I'm old enough that I remember smoking onboard. The ashtrays were in the arm rests of the chairs.
 
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Bothriolepis said:
My first flight came over a decade after 9/11, so I don't really have any personal perspective on whether it was really that much better to fly before then than after. It's definitely not the reason for the change that the OP's referring to, though. By 1999, any airplane other than the Concorde was already pretty much just a Greyhound bus with wings.

I don't necessarily think that's a bad thing, though. The whole "Golden Age" of aviation was the result of air travel being a luxury service and, by the 1960s at the latest, that was mostly an artificial situation propped up by legislation that kept seats unaffordable. It might have been a hell of a lot nicer to take an intercontinental flight in 1965 than in 2025, but a lot of us wouldn't have had a realistic chance of taking an intercontinental flight at all in 1965.
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It went from that to a vast number of regular business people traveling for work.
 
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