Paying More is Good, Right?

[guinness_duck]

The news media has really been hard pressed to come up with actual news these days (because as we all know there is nothing at all going on in the world these days), and I’ve seen an increase in painful to read opinion pieces. Normally I just grumble a little, perhaps share it with a person or two, then walk away. Today, however, I felt that this

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[magnetgirl]

HERE HERE! You know how I love travel, so I'm going to potentially get my sex organs radiated at some point in the near future. But those short-plane trips? Screw 'em. This crap is making me want to learn to drive.

[mhaithaca]

I can sympathize with the airlines' desire to unbundle things not everyone needs. Just as I deflect the complaints that TiVo DVRs don't include Wi-Fi by saying "Well, most people's cable routers are near their cable boxes, so they need an Ethernet port, so I don't want to pay for a Wi-Fi feature I don't need," I think people should pay for the services they need, and let others pay for the services they want.

Where I think the airlines are doing it wrong is treating people differently based on whether they want to put their bag in the luggage hold or the overhead compartment, and I wrote about this almost three years ago. I'm OK with paying a fee to check my luggage as long as the asshat carrying a huge duffel bag on board is paying a similar fee. I'm not OK paying a fee to check my luggage and then being told there's no room overhead for my laptop because of the freeloaders