{"id":182768,"date":"2015-06-10T21:08:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-11T02:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/06\/10\/just-when-you-thought-that-air-travel-couldnt-get-any-crappier\/"},"modified":"2015-06-10T21:08:00","modified_gmt":"2015-06-11T02:08:00","slug":"just-when-you-thought-that-air-travel-couldnt-get-any-crappier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/06\/10\/just-when-you-thought-that-air-travel-couldnt-get-any-crappier\/","title":{"rendered":"Just When You Thought that Air Travel Couldn&#8217;t get any Crappier\u2026\u2026\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The airline trade group, the The International Air Transport Association (IATA), has <a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2015\/06\/10\/news\/airlines-baggage-size-iata\/index.html\">mooted a proposal to further shrink the size of carry-on luggage<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">The International Air Transport Association has put out a recommendation that cabin bags be 21.5 x 13.5 x 7.5 inches to create more space for passengers to store luggage.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">Airlines set their own carry-on limits but the recommendation, if adopted, could lead them to trim bag sizes at most major carriers.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">No North American carriers have yet accepted the IATA guidance but Emirates, Lufthansa (DLAKF) and seven others have.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">Southwest Airlines (LUV) and American Airlines (AAL) said they don&#8217;t have any plans to change carry-on guidelines. Southwest passengers would be among the hardest hit if IATA&#8217;s recommendation becomes standard across the industry. They would lose about 40% in bag space.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/tNGUp2l.gif\" style=\"cursor: pointer; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;\" width=\"175\" \/>Yes, the secret to the airlines is making the <strike>cargo<\/strike> customer experience crappier and crappier, until the consumer longs for the bliss of dealing with Comcast customer service.<\/p>\n<p>I long for the invention of the Star Trek transporter system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The airline trade group, the The International Air Transport Association (IATA), has mooted a proposal to further shrink the size of carry-on luggage: The International Air Transport Association has put out a recommendation that cabin bags be 21.5 x 13.5 x 7.5 inches to create more space for passengers to store luggage. Airlines set their &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1005,969,1035],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-evil","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182768"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}