Delta Air Lines has apologized for the incident and said it is investigating the matter.

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    Everything about the airline industry is unrelentingly awful and hostile to consumers. These companies perfectly represent the disregard this economy has toward individual people. That they continue in this fashion, year after year, shows how completely the regulatory state has failed.

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      I don’t even understand why people fly so often, it’s awful even when everything goes right. Flying used to be cool and fun.

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        I absolutely HATE flying and avoid it as much as possible. However, if I’m going to a conference on the other side of the country I can’t dedicate 6 days to travel. I’m 33 hours from LA for instance, that would equate to 3 days each way of 11 hours in the car each day. Realistically, it would be more like 8 total days of travel with 4 each way.

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            Don’t forget tolls!

            Driving is rarely the better way to go. It’d be even less so if we had a more comprehensive passenger train system.

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              Probably, driving is also more dangerous, although I can’t be bothered to look up the stats.

              Yeah passenger rails that didn’t suck would be the best option here.

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        Yeah, spending hours in a sealed cylinder full of cigarette smoke and dudes sexually assaulting the staff was very cool and fun.

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          The air inside an airplane is actually arguably more harmful today than it was in the immediate aftermath of the short-haul smoking ban. Due to smoking on planes they actually had proper air filtration while in the modern day there are no federal regulations on air filtration for planes and what air carriers elect to employ is very minimal.

          Throughout a flight carbon oxides, aldehydes, and other harmful particulates are known to build up in the air up to levels known to pose immediate harm to those subjected to it.

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            We know this is bullshit because the FAA was all over the filtration standards in planes even before covid hit.

            So I’m going to say; source it or delete it.

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        I fly about once a quarter and I still absolutely love even a mediocre experience. I’d say 95% of my flights are without any issues. It’s been YEARS since a bad experience. I feel it’s completely worth it to explore, visit friends, etc.

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        Work. My job requires lots of in person meetings/work that can’t be replaced via zoom, etc.

        It’s the worst part about my job, but travel started sucking WAY before COVID.

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        Overwhelmingly for me it has been work related. I think excluding a funeral and work I have flown only two round trips the past decade. I am at the airport about 6 or so times a year.

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      Maybe the United States shouldn’t have removed several regulations from the airline industry and letting them govern themselves

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        I have flown on airlines based and operating entirely in the 3rd world that were consistently better than Delta domestic in terms of how you were treated.