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make a profit even without a Carbon imposte. A Green New Deal would have to envisage a fast train network for Europe with minimum human

requirements of space etc. specified. BA’s own free market ethos should allow them to fail and maybe then the money would be available for humane

sustainable transport options.

Why are we tolerating being treated

badly?

such thing.

larry

attention you receive if you travel first class or at any rate above tourist. On “British Rail”, not only can you get Earl Grey tea, you can have

it served with lemon slices in first class. And the seats don’t hurt your back. I remember the days when BA was a decent airline. Now, it can get

stuffed as far as I am concerned. The sooner they go out of business, the better.

larry

seat in front, my feet suspended inches from the ground. When the passenger in front moves I am in agony. If they try to put their seat back, they

can’t.

In a recent flight on United Airlines, I asked an attendant if I could move to one of their “premium economy” seat after take-off

and I was told NO, unless I pay the upgrade. 3/4 of the Premium seats were empty.

I measure the distance between my seat edge and the back

of the seat in front: It was the same as the height of a 500ml bottle of Coca Cola.

It is one reason I liken the modern flying experience to

being boxed in a veal crate.

There was a time, less than 10 years ago, when arriving at the airport 3 hours before departure and requesting

an exit seat would ensure a pleasant trip. I remember being asked if I was medically fit and able to assist in an emergency – my only “payment” for

the relief of an exit seat.

Not any more: the only consideration for that seating now is whether I am willing to pay.

I refuse. Why

should I have to PAY in order NOT TO risk having a Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT)?

A recent legal victory in Canada made in illegal for

carriers to charge double seating for obese passengers.

I don’t have a choice being tall. It is the way my genes made me.

If the

airlines forced disabled, people of colour, or homosexual people to pay more for their seating, there would be an out cry.

But because I am

tall, I somehow have a “choice” between relative comfort or a potentially life threatening condition.

I did not choose to be tall, so why do

airlines discriminate against me?

service carriers really want you off with the so called “Low Cost” Carriers-Airlines provide a vital public good-they are not the playthings of the

market.
Most US carriers lurch from one crisis to another-increasingly there is a strong case for good national carriers to be owned by

Governments-we had a beauty once called TAA-merged into QANTAS to provide the cash flow to make the float successful-few International Carriers

make any money.
Thanks again