and the one about the cabin air NOT being full of germs ? give me a break ! it's happened to me as well, but I have known too many people who have become ill after plane journeys. it stands to reason - you're all in a confined space and if someone is breathing (or coughing, sneezing) out germs, then everyone else is going to breathe them in. if planes can't filter out the obnoxious smell from the khazi, then there's no way i'll believe they can filter out germs !
#1 - "Flying is expensive". The article says it's not (compared to 50 years ago), but that's not my experience. Maybe it's due to increased taxation - especially from those stupid European environmentalists, but back in 2000, it cost me and my family $400 per person for return, direct flights between Philadelphia and London. Now it costs $1200 for a direct flight (if you're lucky !) and we just can't afford it anymore. My wages have increased by about 15% since 2000, not 200% !!
i agree with you. i was on a 3 hour flight once, with 2 late teenage/early 20's girls behind me. from the time they sat down to the time we got off the plane, they literally did not stop talking (loudly and in that annoying screech that so many of them have). after 3 hours and 20 minutes of that, i swear i was near breaking point. recently, i was on another flight when a family was in every seat in the 2 rows behind me and my God, they were noisy. there simply should be a limit on the volume from each passenger and the cabin staff should have the power to enforce it.
