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Congress takes aim at shrinking seats, legroom on airplanes
Associated Press ^ | Sep. 23, 2018 1:03 AM EDT | Kevin Freking

Posted on 09/23/2018 8:52:41 AM PDT by Olog-hai

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To: Olog-hai

Why is Congress wasting tax dollars and time on this. Airline customers should have walked away from small seats and no leg room.


41 posted on 09/23/2018 11:05:32 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: upchuck
Aiplane free, and all that implies, since 1996. Ez to give up.

Unfortunately I don't have that option. I work in Arizona but report to DC, so I have to fly back there several times a year. Fortunately the McCain Nonstop is still flying between PHX and DCA.

42 posted on 09/23/2018 11:06:52 AM PDT by Not A Snowbird (Yeah, I am a Fed. So what?)
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To: Olog-hai; Chode; Squantos; snooter55; All

WHAT THE H&!!

THESE DUMBA$$ IDIOTS CANNOT EVEN VOTE ON A SC JUSTICE AND THEY ARE WORRYING ABOUT AIRLINE SEATING ?!?!?!?!?!!!!

We are doomed...

Somebody stop this Planet from spinning because I want of this ride.


43 posted on 09/23/2018 11:16:30 AM PDT by mabarker1 (Congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!!)
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To: mabarker1

like they fly with the great unwashed


44 posted on 09/23/2018 11:30:19 AM PDT by Chode ( WeÂ’re America, Bitch!)
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To: cherry
I won't fly unless I can't drive which is rarely.

Same here. Between the TSA and the steerage conditions, I'll pass. Got a 750-mile round trip coming up and it will be by auto.

45 posted on 09/23/2018 11:59:13 AM PDT by Oatka
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

You can buy first class now cheaper than coach 5hen.


46 posted on 09/23/2018 12:02:50 PM PDT by TexasGator (Z1)
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To: mabarker1

Agree ......


47 posted on 09/23/2018 12:16:57 PM PDT by Squantos (Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet ...)
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To: Lizavetta

“Choose to sit in the exit row. Noticeably more leg room ... but the seats don’t recline.”

At 6’7” and 248 lbs, it wouldn’t matter.


48 posted on 09/23/2018 12:37:56 PM PDT by OregonRancher (Some days, it's not even worth chewing through the restraints)
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To: TexasGator

Yep. The miracle of deregulation. When I was a kid in the late 50s and early 60s, Dad would buy a new car every two years and we would set off on a 2-3week journey stopping to visit all of our far flung relatives. There was no way you could fly a family in those days unless you were a millionaire (anon that meant something back then). It was far cheaper to buy a new car and drive all over the country.

Did you know that’s how Cornelius Vanderbilt made his fortune? Steamship fares were regulated very high in the early days. Steamship companies made floating palaces with sky high fares that only the very rich could afford. He made fares economical for Everyman and became a billionaire (in today’s dollars).


49 posted on 09/23/2018 12:49:05 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Olog-hai

I was stuck on a United flight once with a person so obese the arm rest was buried in his fat to the point I was left with lass than half of a tiny seat at best. The stewardess did not want to move me to a better situation because the vacant seat available was a premium seat.
I flew regularly for the past 30+ years and in that time frame flying has become a torture at best


50 posted on 09/23/2018 12:58:47 PM PDT by okie 54
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To: Olog-hai

Toyota Yaris is my dream car, but I’m stuck with a Corolla (too big). The problem is the Corolla has to wear out first, and at 230K miles it shows no signs of doing so.


51 posted on 09/23/2018 4:47:21 PM PDT by Stirner
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To: Olog-hai

Toyota Yaris is my dream car, but I’m stuck with a Corolla (too big). The problem is the Corolla has to wear out first, and at 230K miles it shows no signs of doing so.


52 posted on 09/23/2018 4:49:39 PM PDT by Stirner
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To: Stirner

Might be too roomy for you. I’m a big guy and I drove an Echo for over a decade; got it up to 261K before it was sold to a handyman who was still driving it last time I saw him. (There was a hatchback version of the Echo sold in Europe under of the Yaris name.) The only problem I had was the legroom; my right leg would get cramped on trips of over 50 miles, and the car had no cruise control.


53 posted on 09/23/2018 4:59:15 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Olog-hai
Meanwhile, on a related subject, well, lookee here...

A Case Report of DVT following the Johnson and Johnson Vaccine against the Novel SARS-CoV-2

54 posted on 11/19/2022 4:12:02 AM PST by mewzilla (We will never restore the republic if we don't first secure the ballot box.)
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