Baggage in the main cabin doesn’t help that. You can see it in CRJs that require gate checking carryons. Boarding and deboarding are always much faster.

Some airlines chase raw passenger numbers, others chase high yield passengers. Either would be better by making on time arrival the primary objective.

All of it is from the attempt to squeeze as much as possible out of the flying public, and puts enormous stress on gate agents, cleaning crews, FAs, and pilots.

Understaffed ground crews, operational and maintenance delays, cascading delays, etc were all a part of it before the ATC shortages and weather problems.

This Fall has been terrible, even before the shut down. On-time arrival is the stat that I care about the most, especially as airlines have encouraged shorter and shorter layovers as the norm.

They’re also freeing space below for cargo. Which isn’t an excuse, but part or discouraging people from checking bags.

Even moving the time frame to the mid-19th c configures the story to be a tale of the Victorian bourgeois family drama.

I was depressed to learn that my new city San Diego has sunset at like 4:45p in December.

Cargo. I’m going to miss a connection over cargo.

We are stuck on the ground waiting for some paperwork for some cargo onboard.

It is an absurd airline, plagued by years of bad leadership decisions. And I say this as someone who has had about 75% of my segments delayed since early August, flying every wee.

The lie of tax cuts has always been that corporations and the wealthy would take those gains and reinvest them in r&d, business growth, etc.