JUSTICE! Airlines Will Now HAVE To Pay You For Delayed/Canceled Flights, Lost Bags, And For Being Overall Sucky!!!

I've been a harsh critic of Mayor Pete. Mostly because it's fun to blame one guy for everything that goes wrong with travel, and he's the Secretary of Transportation, so it starts and ends with him for me. Flight canceled? Fuck you Mayor Pete. Airline lost you bag? Fuck you Mayor Pete. Flight is delayed 3 hours, finally takes off, and then turns around and lands back in the same airport we took off from because a flight attendant smelled a gas leak? Fuck you sideways, Mayor Pete!

So fun fact about that flight- it was originally a 10:45am flight, we ended up leaving the next day at 2am, and all we got was a $12 voucher that could be redeemed at Jamba Juice or Auntie Annes. Because it was a "mechanical issue" they didn't give flight credits, hotel credits, nothing. They said you must sit here and wait for us to tell you when the next flight out is. They wouldn't give an estimated time or anything. It was torture being held at the gate like that for 14 hours. 

Look, I get things go wrong. It cannot be easy to perfectly and safely fly millions of people in the sky across the globe 24 hours a day. But there is no denying the airlines have been taking advantage of us to no end because they know we have no recourse. You call and stay on hold for 5 hours, only for the drone on the other end to tell you there's nothing they can do to help you. They lose your bag and it sits halfway across the world for 3 weeks. Little by little, flying has turned into one of the biggest headaches possible. Back when I was a wee lad, flying was fast and easy. Now you get treated like a prisoner at Gitmo, complete with the finger up your bum hole. It's a mess.

So I must tip my cap to Mayor Pete, as it looks like…and I want to stress LOOKS LIKE things are about to change. It looks like they are going to start holding the airlines accountable for being so god damn shitty. I am stressing LOOKS LIKE because it's still the government, and it's still the airlines. I can't completely trust they will actually do this. I mean, someone has to hit the refund button, and that person is either going to work for the gov or the airline. And I am POSITIVE they are going to make up and bend every rule possible in order to continue to fuck over the consumer. So I'm not entirely sold that this will solve the issue.

And while we're here, and I know you're reading this Mayor Pete, there is one more problem that must be fixed. When booking your flight, they need to stop lying about what seats are already taken. It seems 100000% impossible that no matter when you book your flight, no matter how far in advance you book it, only middle seats are available unless you want to pay more. Kinda crazy how that works! Stop gouging us for not wanting to sit in a middle seat and making us pay another $70 for a window even when the plane is clearly 80% empty. It's such bullshit.

This is a good start though. Now let's hope it actually happens.