SMN: What's The Deal With Airlines?

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🗓️ 1 February 2023

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Hi. The airlines really screwed things up over the holidays and have made flying a generally awful experience for decades. Here's why that is (spoiler alert: capitalism and deregulation) and how we could potentially make it better. Sources: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nyCo5G7cyBF4ulQHdZwipCEU_f0qXBWwbIqK4opDT8A/edit?usp=sharing Please fill out our SURVEY: https://kastmedia.com/survey/ Support us on our PATREON: http://patreon.com/somemorenews Check out our MERCH STORE: https://www.teepublic.com/stores/somemorenews?ref_id=9949 SUBSCRIBE to SOME MORE NEWS: https://tinyurl.com/ybfx89rh Subscribe to the Even More News and SMN audio podcasts here: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/some-more-news/id1364825229 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6ebqegozpFt9hY2WJ7TDiA?si=5keGjCe5SxejFN1XkQlZ3w&dl_branch=1 Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/show/even-more-news Follow us on social media: Twitter: https://twitter.com/SomeMoreNews Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/SomeMoreNews/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SomeMoreNews/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@somemorenews If you're looking for an easier way to take supplements, Athletic Greens is giving you a FREE 1-year supply of Vitamin D AND 5 free travel packs with your first purchase. Go to https://athleticgreens.com/MORENEWS. Get a 4-week trial, free postage, and a digital scale at https://www.stamps.com/morenews. Thanks to Stamps.com for sponsoring the show!Support the show!: http://patreon.com.com/somemorenewsSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Boi oh boy, here's some news.
0:05.2	It's already February of this new fangled 2023 and yet everyone is still talking about
0:11.2	the movie plane, starring Gerard Butler.
0:14.0	That's despite much of the movie not actually taking place on a plane, but it just goes
0:17.9	to show how much America has airline fever.
0:21.9	Fever's of course being a rise in body temperature that causes us to get sick and die sometimes.
0:26.9	So I'm now being told that no one is talking about the movie plane after all.
0:31.4	Still, it was a good entry point for today's video, which as you probably already know
0:36.0	from reading the title of the video, it's about airlines.
0:39.8	Because here's some news, gah!
0:42.2	The recent holidays were extremely mega special terrible for air travelers.
0:46.2	This is of course different from other holiday years when airlines were just severely mega
0:50.4	special terrible.
0:52.0	And so here's some cue question.
0:54.4	Why exactly is air travel the worst, even before the pandemic, or not during snow emergencies,
1:01.2	or during any given part of the year, airlines are notorious for being some of the most
1:05.9	insufferable businesses for consumers.
1:08.6	Being on an airplane often feels like we're being held hostage by a faceless corporation
1:13.1	with no guarantee that they will actually deliver us and our belongings to the correct
1:17.2	destination and at the correct time.
1:19.6	And imagine if any other business function that way.
1:23.0	And if you went to the movie theater and were jammed into the smallest seat possible and
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