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Opinion | The Airlines Know They Are Scamming Us


Now, conservatively, it costs us $1,600 to drive, a few hundred dollars more than the $1,400 we pay for regular airline tickets. 7 year olds are prone to motion sickness, and it’s hard to quantify the specific distress of being in the car with a child who is constantly nauseous for 16 hours, especially when you’re mostly on interstate and it’s not Must be a fun ride. -a scenic trip time during which you can stop somewhere but an empty road and take a selfie in front of the world’s largest twine ball. You may not literally pay for these, but you do pay in exhaustion and loss of time. So instead, I choose to pay for the plane ticket and swallow because it will take 8 hours to get to my destination instead of 48 hours, the 7-year-old won’t vomit anything and at least I can go urine. mary on the plane as a relief to my stressed nerves, which I couldn’t do while driving on Interstate 85.

A lot of people are in a much worse situation than us in this regard: harder journeys, more children, more ties, less money to pay through the nose. Driving isn’t even a possibility for some people with disabilities, the inability to access cars, or other things that simply rule out that possibility. And each of our trips to Alabama, didn’t always get cheaper. The first time I flew was in my sophomore year of college, and the trip was punctuated by the fact that the 11-hour drive from Wetumpka to Durham, NC, would be more expensive to drive than to fly. I’m a cash-strapped financial aid student, so I sucked it up.

In a sense, the benefits of aviation deregulation have been undermined by its disadvantages. Low-cost airlines that made flying viable for middle-class consumers arose after Congress deregulated the industry in 1978. Lower fares were offset by an expanding market but also allowed for airlines. The airline introduced new policies that removed the amenities and customers accustomed to expecting less from air travel. But how low can consumer expectations get, and what does this mean if air travel becomes expensive again?

We departed Friday for New York, and that meant a connecting flight and a long transit at an odd time, saving me about $400 a ticket. As long as we can and as long as a 7-year-old needs to see a grandparent, we will continue to do this every year — but not everyone will or can if airline service continues to deteriorate over the years. when prices fluctuate. It simply isn’t sustainable for many non-business customers, both in terms of experience and cost. As a result, air travel could become the exclusive domain of first-class passengers and corporate customers. When driving is not possible, the alternative is much worse, if cheaper and less painful: FaceTime.

Elizabeth Spiers (@espiers), an Opinion writer, is a journalist and digital media strategist. She is the editor-in-chief of The New York Observer and the founding editor of Gawker.

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