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The "lots of room" on the 777 is reserved for first class and maybe business. The rest of the passengers are jammed together in a long, claustrophobic tube with thin oxygen - yep, don't wanna waste any precious fuel so the jet keeps that to a minimum - and to top it off, it's really cold. Now I stopped flying after the first forced x-ray and the pat down. I know what those wonderful NSA contractors make, and they do ridiculously well - 2 to 3 hundred grand a year and more - to supposedly keep the country safe. As far as I'm concerned, they aren't doing their job if Americans are supposed to be lined up and examined like assembly line vegetables before being parked in the cans they're stuffed into. No thanks. We have a bloated government that doesn't do its job, and airlines that have steadily gone from delightful to mercenary, exploitive money mongers, to the point of shocking. Remember the poor doctor that was literally assaulted because he had the audacity to want to sit in a seat he paid for?? That was United. Fly the friendly skies?? LOL!! Personally, I don't care of all of them save maybe Frontier or Southwest hit the skids. Thanks!!
The facts are, passengers will always fly where it costs the least, then they will whine endlessly about it. There have been several airlines that started up offering bigger seats or all first class, they are all gone now. You yearn for the days of big empty planes that waste fuel, well, those are gone, too much competition. Airlines are not going to fly you on money losing jets and give you a giant seat, because the passengers have proved that they aren't willing to pay for it. That poor doctor was assaulted by a security guy, not the airline. And the airline was a commuter airline that flew for United, not actually United. Frontier? Really? One of the lowest budget airlines in the country (along with Spirit and Allegiant), they have one of the worst customer service records of all.