And now for something completely different...air travel "rights."

[HughBeaumont]

12. Really wouldn't know, since flight is now a luxury of the upper-middle class or higher.

I can't even get $92 one way for a city that's 5.4 hours away by car.

Just seven years ago, I used to get that entire FLIGHT for that much.

Like hotels, you're paying more and getting way less (don't even get me started on THAT racket . . . just love taking my own Ice Cooler on the road since even mini-fridges are now apparently luxuries).

Last time I flew was 2011, when I had to go to Denver for our Championships. Felt like I was in a sardine can, or on the morning commute with personal-space clueless males sitting next to me. Both ways - person ahead of me reclined, person next to me encroached in my seat (and they weren't persons of size, that's just the way they sat . . . and he had an aisle seat). You get on a plane and the idiots on there (again, mostly males) immediately occupy the aisle and window seats and sit there, encroaching the middle with their arms folded. Sons of bitches.