Delta passengers fall ill while stuck on tarmac for hours during blistering Las Vegas heatwave
Delta passengers fall ill while stuck on tarmac for hours during blistering Las Vegas heatwave

Delta passengers fall ill while stuck on tarmac for hours during blistering Las Vegas heatwave

Delta Air Lines has apologized for the incident and said it is investigating the matter.
Everything about the airline industry is unrelentingly awful and hostile to consumers. These companies perfectly represent the disregard this economy has toward individual people. That they continue in this fashion, year after year, shows how completely the regulatory state has failed.
Maybe they are trying to pivot and get jobs at Microsoft, Apple or John Deere.
I don't even understand why people fly so often, it's awful even when everything goes right. Flying used to be cool and fun.
I absolutely HATE flying and avoid it as much as possible. However, if I'm going to a conference on the other side of the country I can't dedicate 6 days to travel. I'm 33 hours from LA for instance, that would equate to 3 days each way of 11 hours in the car each day. Realistically, it would be more like 8 total days of travel with 4 each way.
Yeah, spending hours in a sealed cylinder full of cigarette smoke and dudes sexually assaulting the staff was very cool and fun.
Flying became awful for the same reason Reddit became awful.
I fly about once a quarter and I still absolutely love even a mediocre experience. I'd say 95% of my flights are without any issues. It's been YEARS since a bad experience. I feel it's completely worth it to explore, visit friends, etc.
Work. My job requires lots of in person meetings/work that can't be replaced via zoom, etc.
It's the worst part about my job, but travel started sucking WAY before COVID.
Overwhelmingly for me it has been work related. I think excluding a funeral and work I have flown only two round trips the past decade. I am at the airport about 6 or so times a year.
Maybe the United States shouldn't have removed several regulations from the airline industry and letting them govern themselves
I have flown on airlines based and operating entirely in the 3rd world that were consistently better than Delta domestic in terms of how you were treated.