In 2021 do consumers want a better flight experience but can smarter regulation provide something other than a "cattle car" flight experience?

 Are you looking forward this summer of 2021 to post COVID travel in the  airline cattle cars? 

Insofar as domestic USA travel, prices are going up and airlines are using larger aircraft to accommodate the customers who don't seem to care if they travel arm to arm in rows that barely allow for wheeling luggage down the smaller aisles that  are no longer the required distance apart post COVID for passengers that may or may not be required to show vaccination cards, are booking their flights now.  Nevertheless, airlines are claiming smarter regulation would provide a better flight.

However, when airline deregulation took place in 1978 there were some in the travel and aviation community who foresaw the consequences of what was wrought,  nonetheless, consumers were thrilled by the low prices and failed to notice the airlines became a Greyhound bus experience even for the upper class passengers.

Fast forward to after 9/11.

The hassles of security and taking off shoes plus more intensive searches became necessary when "a treat all the same attitude" meant even the elderly with hip replacements were forced to endure a strip search, and little children were not immune if the security equipment sounded an alarm.  And then the planes were larger and the security lines longer and the space tighter.

Fast more forward to the "Disability Act."

Airlines forced to accommodate even miniature horses, dogs that were emotionally required that were aggressive and not potty trained, planes built with less leg room, and reclining seats tilt with no rules requiring how far.  And then came the pandemic with airlines recirculating cabin air indiscriminately without air circulation minimum requirements, still with no "government mandated minimum air circulation" rules into the summer of 2021 for domestic USA travel.

The question I leave you to determine, can the airlines really provide smarter regulation to improve your 2021 travel by plane experience?

https://www.airlines.org/our-priorities/ 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/travel/2021/04/02/cheap-summer-flights-vaccinated-travel/ 

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