Flying used to be a nightmare - parking in some god-forsaken lot seemingly located in another state (usually in the rain or cold), waiting for that odd-smelling shuttle bus, schlepping luggage through checkin, those rude, invasive, stupid TSA "security" checkpoints, and all this BEFORE the vagaries of the flying part.
My most recent trip? Limo to airport, Skycap for luggage, checkin on my iPhone, pre-approved by the TSA - a breeze! I will ignore that I paid a pretty penny for the privilege of some of those things and that the TSA merely relaxed an unbelievably intrusive "security" check to a medium-intrusive check as if it were some benefit but hey - I take simplification of flying wherever I can.
The actual flying bit is pretty much unchanged, though this charge-for-checked-luggage bit causes nothing but chaos aboard, where as much as you can humanly carry on is free. People are desperate for overhead space. The airlines need to let people like me, when we don't need overhead space, charge the carry-oners for my space.
Think of the fun bidding wars!
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