“Not a shill for the oil companies, just a soulless capitalist more concerned with the value of a dollar than the value of life.”

Right. That would have gone over oh so well 

In what reality do you live in where the president can decide of people can WFH or not? Also the vast majority of people cannot WFH. Lastly, at least locally, many companies have allowed employees to WFH if their position allows for it. Myself being one of those people.

They could sell fuel at a much lower price and still rake in handsome profits.

What people don’t realize when they say “Big Oil” is that it’s Saudi Armaco. It’s worth 8 times as much as second place (Exxonmobile). It’s almost worth the other 19 “big oil” companies combined.

So the title of this should just be “Old Man Decides to Retire by Slowly Letting His Business Go Bankrupt”

Amen. I’m a 6' woman, and you better believe my backpack is going up in the overhead compartment. It’s bad enough the person in front of me is inevitably going to slam their seatback into my knees (don’t @ me about reclining. It’s fine. It’s their right, I deal with it). But then to cram a backpack, which really…

I’m only 6'1" and I always pay for economy+ (when available) or better. Even if it’s work and they won’t pay for it, it’s worth kicking in a little bit of my own cash for it.

What I’ve heard from actual fat people is “I try to buy a second seat, but the airline decides it’s a no-show and shoves a standby passenger into it. Then I’m the bad guy somehow.”

For most people being fat isn’t controllable either, other than with surgery. It turns out that evolution trained our bodies to relentlessly conserve body mass in any way possible. There was a study done on “Biggest Loser” contestants that found that their metabolisms were permanently reduced by the starvation diets…

I fly business and first whenever I can, but those seats simply aren’t always available or reimbursable under travel policy. Regardless, as I mentioned above, my shit sits in the footprint of one bag. So, I’m not fucking other passengers, I’m pointing out that the rules are stupid and truthfully, not enforced or…

Because a) I’ve been doing this shit for 25+ years and until they started charging for bags and reducing the seats to sizes adequate only for lilliputians, I never had any issues flying for business b) because I, much like a baby or a plus-sized person didn’t get a say with regard to my body type, although I know a…

Or, overhead bins are locked upon landing and people without carryon baggage are allowed to deplane first.  Then the overhead bins are unlocked and everyone else can deplane.   

What if all I brought is a backpack? People seem to think that just because I didn’t bring a rollerbag, I’ve forfeited my use of overhead space. Fuck that. 

I’ll be one of the voices on the “cons” side of the argument...to an extent.

you should have eaten less as a child so you would be malnourished and not have grown so tall.

Since when is being tall controllable by diet/exercise?

That's because those people are idiots, not because the act of pulling out a bag is difficult or time consuming. 

I fly all the time. I am 6'2"-6'3" and 225. I have precisely no room for anything in my seating area, really not even myself. So, when Igo away for 1-2 nights, I am putting my bag up there and my briefcase in front of it and my coat, if I have one. Fuck’em - if they are going to take any semblance of reasonable…

Things like hats, jackets, small purses, or backpacks do not qualify as overhead bin luggage.