I had a flight planned with Air Canada from Montreal to Halifax in May. The first flight was with a Boeing 737 max 8. When I found out it was too late. I couldn’t change my flight or cancel without losing the entire price of the ticket minus the taxes. That’s a few hundred dollars. I was just about ready to say fuck it and cancel and just take the losses.
Thankfully, there was a change in my flight time even a month before the flight was planned. That gave me the right to change my flight without any penalty. I called them right away to switch to a non Boeing flight.
There’s no way I’m ever getting into a Boeing unless I have no other choice.
Honestly, at this point, air travel is so uncomfortable and unpleasant in general that I just avoid it unless absolutely necessary at this point. The only thing I will give air travel now over what it was when I was a kid is that they banned smoking. That’s pretty much it. Everything else is worse.
That’s actually not true at all. Bleed air from the engines is constantly pumped into the cabin to maintain pressurization, and what air is recirculated is pumped through HEPA filters. Airplane cabins on a properly maintained modern aircraft have surprisingly clean air.
I had a flight planned with Air Canada from Montreal to Halifax in May. The first flight was with a Boeing 737 max 8. When I found out it was too late. I couldn’t change my flight or cancel without losing the entire price of the ticket minus the taxes. That’s a few hundred dollars. I was just about ready to say fuck it and cancel and just take the losses.
Thankfully, there was a change in my flight time even a month before the flight was planned. That gave me the right to change my flight without any penalty. I called them right away to switch to a non Boeing flight.
There’s no way I’m ever getting into a Boeing unless I have no other choice.
Honestly, at this point, air travel is so uncomfortable and unpleasant in general that I just avoid it unless absolutely necessary at this point. The only thing I will give air travel now over what it was when I was a kid is that they banned smoking. That’s pretty much it. Everything else is worse.
Ironically, air quality on flights has gone down since the smoking ban since they no longer need to air out and can just recirculate the air.
That’s actually not true at all. Bleed air from the engines is constantly pumped into the cabin to maintain pressurization, and what air is recirculated is pumped through HEPA filters. Airplane cabins on a properly maintained modern aircraft have surprisingly clean air.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/article/how-clean-is-the-air-on-your-airplane-coronavirus-cvd
Yeah. I love travelling and visiting new places, but the flight is the absolute worst part. There’s absolutely zero comfort. It’s inhumane.