American Airlines: Extra legroom will cost extra:

American Airlines has a leg up on their competitors.

American Airlines is offering another option to the passenger who is tired of jamming their knees into a fellow flier’s back. The carrier’s new “Main Cabin Extra” seats in coach will offer four to six inches of additional legroom. Probably have to pay by the inch.

We certainly did not expect the airline that lost $11,700,000,000.00 in the last ten years to give the extra space away. How are these guys still eating? They call it Chapter 11.

Flying used to be quite an enjoyable experience that passengers looked forward to. Free booze, hot meals, free movies, free blankets and pillows. Now you are lucky if you get a bag of pretzels. If you do, there are only 5 microscopic pretzels in the bag. Hardly worth using your strength to open it.

I thought I saw it all years ago when bottled water went on the market. Now it happens to be a $ 100,000,000.00 industry. The kicker is; from all the studies that have been taken it has been proven that the water you got out of your tap at home is as good or better than the $ 2.00 bottle you buy because some Yuppies like the fancy name on the label.

With enough money and hype, anything can become successful.

Than some financial genius began selling air; air to inflate your tires. Free air pumps and a lot of other items use to be free to any customer at gas stations. Not anymore.

A few years back the airliners moved the seat closer in the planes so they could add more seats. More seats, more passengers, more cash.

Then they started charging for pillows and blankets. Flees and bed bugs were extra.

If a person is too large to get their behind in one seat, the airline will charge them for two seats and maybe three seats if need be.

The attendants use to have a personality. Now they have to send a bunch of them to charm school periodically for refresher courses.

I guess the main concern in this whole scenario is; the flight makes it from point A to point B safely. Last year was the safest year on record for commercial airlines.

I really don’t care if I get pretzels, a free pillow or blanket; just keep the pilot and co-pilot out of the gin mill before the flight