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Why Flying Is Miserable Now (And No, It’s Not Just Greedy Airlines)

Remember when flying used to be exciting?

You booked a ticket, showed up, walked through security without being treated like a terrorist, and maybe — just maybe — had a seat with enough room to breathe.

Now? You pay double, get crammed between a 400-pound “body positive” activist and a trainee pilot with 36 flight hours — and you’re supposed to feel grateful.

What happened?

It’s not just inflation. It’s not just greedy airlines. It’s what happens when the left poisons everything it touches — including the skies.

Let’s Talk About the Elephant in the Seat (Literally)

Airlines are raising prices. And one reason no one wants to say out loud?

Fat entitlement.

Thanks to the “body positivity” movement, the new rule is this: If you weigh 350 pounds and take up two seats, you deserve them — at the price of one.

And if the seatbelt doesn’t fit? That’s the airline’s fault, obviously. Not yours.

But those extra costs? The bigger seats? The reconfiguring of cabin layouts to accommodate land mammals? Someone has to pay for that.

That someone is you. The regular passenger. The one who eats vegetables, walks sometimes, and still gets charged more just to cover the cost of someone else’s life choices.

DEI in the Cockpit? No Thanks.

Here’s another fun reason your airfare just went up:

Diversity hiring.

Airlines no longer hire the best pilots. They hire the most diverse pilots. And if you think that’s a joke, think again.

United Airlines proudly announced that 50% of their new pilot hires will be women or people of color — not based on merit, not based on experience, but because “representation matters.”

Let me ask you something: When you’re 30,000 feet in the air, do you care what your pilot’s pronouns are — or do you want the guy with 10,000 hours and nerves of steel?

But no, we’ve replaced excellence with equity. We used to train the best. Now we just check boxes.

And guess what happens when you lower the bar in aviation?

• More delays
• More errors
• More crashes (yes, they’re rising again — and no one’s allowed to say why)

Again: someone has to pay for all this incompetence. That someone is you.

Ticket Prices Are Up — Service Is in the Toilet

You’d think if you were paying more, you’d get more.

But no.

You pay $800 for a seat — and you still get:

• No snacks
• No legroom
• A flight attendant who looks annoyed that you dared to board

Why?

Because customer service is now “emotional labor,” and asking for a Diet Coke is seen as oppression.

The entire experience has been downgraded. Flying used to feel like an event. Now it feels like a punishment.

And every single time a plane does manage to take off on time, it’s a miracle. Not because of talent — but in spite of this disaster of a system.

Security Theater, Mask Karens, and Government Overreach

Let’s not forget how the left handled flying during COVID.

Mask mandates. Vaccine passports. TSA agents turned into mini-dictators barking orders like you were smuggling uranium.

You think any of that just went away?

Nope. It left a permanent stain.

Airlines now operate in fear of backlash from blue-haired bloggers who tweet about “unsafe environments” if the guy in seat 18C isn’t triple-masked.

We trained a whole generation of airline staff to treat passengers like criminals — and now they wonder why morale is in the toilet and everyone’s miserable.

This wasn’t safety. It was control.

And you better believe the price of that control is baked into your ticket.

The “Golden Age” of Flying vs. Now

Here’s what most people don’t realize: flying really was once glamorous.

• Real meals with real silverware
• Free drinks without begging
• Wide seats and legroom to spare
• Pilots who were often ex-military aces
• Flight attendants who actually wanted the job

Flying felt like a luxury. People dressed up to get on a plane.

Compare that to now:

• A bag of pretzels if you’re lucky
• Middle seats packed shoulder to shoulder
• Pilots doing TikToks in the cockpit
• Staff who look like they’d rather be anywhere else

Progress, apparently, means turning air travel into a Greyhound bus with wings.

The Emotional Support Circus

Then there’s the freak show of “therapy animals.”

Flying used to be about luggage, not livestock.

Now? People drag pigs, peacocks, iguanas, and Great Danes onto planes because of “anxiety.”

Forget the paying customers who can’t breathe or move. Forget the sanitation nightmare. Forget the delays caused when a dog bites someone or a peacock craps in row 14.

Airlines caved to activists instead of common sense. And every single time one of these circus acts boards, the extra costs ripple through the system.

Guess who pays for it? Not the pig owner. You do.

The Bailout Scam

And let’s not forget the big scam: bailouts.

Airlines cried poverty during COVID. The government showered them with billions of your tax dollars.

And what happened? They cut staff anyway. They downgraded service anyway. They funneled money into DEI seminars instead of maintenance.

Apparently diversity coordinators keep planes in the air better than mechanics. Who knew?

So now you pay twice: once through taxes, and again through ticket prices.

Real Incidents That Prove the Decline

• Passengers brawling over masks in midair
• “Emotional support horse” causing a two-hour delay
• Pilots going viral on TikTok for bragging about representation instead of logging hours
• Entire flights canceled because crews were “emotionally exhausted” from mean passengers asking for water

This isn’t exaggeration. It’s reality.

The Quiet Subsidies No One Talks About

Here’s a little secret: When airlines cater to these new “progressive” demands, someone always foots the bill.

• Two seats for one?
• Accommodating “emotional support pigs”?
• Replacing pilots with trainees who check off a diversity quota?

All of this costs money.

But the people asking for it? They’re not paying. They’re demanding.

You, the normal traveler, are paying. Every time you board a flight, you’re subsidizing someone else’s ideology.

Congratulations. You’re funding the revolution — one carry-on fee at a time.

Flying Should Be About Physics, Not Feelings

The left wants you to believe flying is a human right.

But the sky doesn’t care about your feelings. It cares about physics.

Planes don’t stay in the air because of body positivity. They stay in the air because someone, somewhere, followed the rules of aerodynamics — rules that don’t care if you’re fat, trans, vegan, or spiritually connected to the moon.

But now we build policy around feelings. And those feelings are destroying performance, safety, and affordability.

The sky used to be the limit. Now it’s just another place where the left demands special treatment.

Who’s Actually Being Discriminated Against?

• The guy who just wants to fly home for Thanksgiving
• The woman who paid full price and got half a seat
• The kid who got booted because someone’s therapy peacock had anxiety

These aren’t privileged people. They’re normal people — punished for not being part of the new liberal pecking order.

And every time they complain, they’re told to shut up and “be inclusive.”

Inclusive of what? Incompetence? Obesity? Entitlement?

No thanks.

The Future of Flying

• $1,200 for a middle seat that used to cost $300
• Planes redesigned like giant beanbags to “accommodate all body types”
• Pilots chosen by Instagram followers instead of flight hours
• Passengers thrown off flights for refusing to “acknowledge” a parrot’s pronouns

Gravity doesn’t care about diversity. Neither do jet engines.

But if you let ideology run the skies, don’t be surprised when the physics eventually win.

Final Boarding Call for Common Sense

Airlines didn’t just magically become greedy. They’ve always wanted money. That’s capitalism.

What changed was everything around them.

The left introduced policies that:

• Inflate costs
• Lower standards
• Prioritize identity over ability
• Demand special accommodations without paying for them

And now we’re shocked that flying costs more and sucks harder?

This is what happens when ideology trumps efficiency. When politics infect physics. When “equity” replaces excellence.

Flying is worse now — and it’s not by accident.

It’s by design.