Comment What, cut into profits? (Score 1) 819
And CEO salaries? Why, when we can just laugh (other than at the cost of unscheduled landings and takeoffs) at people who can't afford business class?
What did you think steerage was? Are you *so* last century that you rembember free checked luggage, and free food (since you'd paid so much for the flight)? What, just because Americans have been growing larger for the last century (men going into the US Army, in WWI: 5'6, WWII, 5'8", 'Nam: 5'10") why should we make enough room for the majority of the population?
You don't like it, take the train (but we won't fund it, the way we do planes, with tax-paid airports, and transportation to the airports....)
mark "how many airline CEOs can fit in steerage with the rest of us?"