That’s the point I was trying to make earlier. All these smart airline pilots don’t realize they’re all of a sudden outraged and typing long diatribes on APC about a petition that doesn’t matter and isn’t news. They just take the rage/fear bait hook line and sinker. They’re addicted to it.

The problem with reducing the seating capacity to accommodate bigger seats is that people would revolt over the necessary increase in ticket prices to maintain revenue. That $500 ticket now cost $600. The solution is much more affordable. People who pay for one seat should expect use of the entire space, those who take up more room should pay for it.

I was a kid in 1985, not flying a lot then but I’d have sworn 727s and 737s at United had 6-across seating when I was a kid. So were the aisles a lot narrower, or am I remembering incorrectly, or is the article wrong? I don’t see any other possibilities here.

Oh surprise, another "news" article to stir up discord. From the original fear and hate, fake news channel nonetheless. But it sells because people buy it. And so much more entertaining and simple then reporting on Economic Policy.

This crap reporting would not have seen the light of day 30 years ago.

Is MSNBC any different? Cable news networks are all biased and pander to their target audiences using the same playbook.

I'm not defending any network, but there's only one that's going to trial for $1.6 billion for lying to their viewers. I'd call that an objective difference.

He didn’t say it was. So to whom are you addressing this issue? Are you stuck in the “they do it too” phase? It’s pretty obvious that all the major news organizations peddle fear for money……….unless you are stuck in the matrix.

Now specifically, it’s hilarious that one in particular is struggling with a 1.6 billion lawsuit that they knowingly lied to keep people watching, and yet here we are, links still going out like they have any validity…that’s very telling no?
It absolutely shrieks propaganda slave.


. Take the blue or red, and see how far down the hole you go, but for the love of god keep your extremism to yourself on the flightdeck……please

Who’s being extreme? All I said was that both sides are biased and play the same games. I actually find watching the news more amusing than anything. The same story gets completely different spins based what channel you’ve tuned in. Especially regarding politics, it’s kind of fun to watch a story on Fox News, MSNBC, and CNN to see how far they spin it.

My apologies, the extremism is attached to the OP. Anyone that posts either fox or cnn and believes it’s real/productive/genuine…….is an extremism imho. They’ve departed the middle ground

Personally I think Burke brings a varied background, and though often lengthy, some knowledgeable posts.

For those posts that irritate me, from whomever, I sometimes respond....usually not, but accept their right to be (in my view) anywhere from a complete idiot to just ignorant.

many decades ago my wife provided me with a bit of insight that helped her, and I have adopted it with some occasional success.

She arrived in this country as a stateless refugee. In my parents time the term would have been DP.
She came from a country where you could be imprisoned for reading Orwell, or Solzhenitsyn, or Michnik etc. Imprisoned for even having such works in your possession, etc.

It drove her nuts, for some time, that in a country where you could read anything from Lenin to Hitler to Marx to Dostoevsky to Miłosz, people read Daniel Steele. Aargh!
She finally made peace of it with this:
"Being free means you are free to be as ignorant as you wish".

So, if we are free, then people are free to be as ignorant, as annoying, and as wrong as can be.
So...to both yourself and JBurke...carry on.