> If you want more luxury, pay for a first class ticket. It's not just luxury, it's also safety, though I blame regulators here. The minimum standards are dem

> If you want more luxury, pay for a first class ticket. It's not just luxury, it's also safety, though I blame regulators here. The minimum standards are demonstrably laughable if you look at the details about testing "safe" evacuations. > Shit happens. Bad weather, human error, random acts of God. Airlines aren't delaying or cancelling flights on purpose. What do you want them to do differently here? Several things: * Staff appropriately so that pilots don't run so close to the edge of their allowed hours that a small delay results in a cancellation because they've been on duty too long. * More/better preventative maintenance. Airplanes are flown way too long with equipment MEL'd down to no redundancy, then the airline acts surprised when the no-longer-redundant thing also fails. * More slack in general. I know it's not reasonable to expect them to waste planes sitting in hangers at every spokes, but a few planes kept in reserve at major hubs would go a long way to preventing massive knock-on delays. For that matter, so would extra gate crews, so planes aren't bottlenecked there as well. * End/outlaw overbooking entirely.