meh, I actually prefer the 'pay for what you use' model. My big problem with it is that they don't optimize for speed. For example, instead of charging you ex

meh, I actually prefer the 'pay for what you use' model. My big problem with it is that they don't optimize for speed. For example, instead of charging you extra for checked bags, I think they should charge you extra for those overhead bins; loading/unloading would go twice as fast without those bins. Don't tell me the weight makes that much difference; the difference between me and some of my friends would be the weight of two or more checked bags, and I'm not particularly unusual. (I mean, I'm what, 6', and 200# just over a 27 BMI, so yeah, I'm fat, but I'm not unusually so.) I guess as Americans, what, with the TSA, we have already made the choice that well, speed doesn't matter. I can't complain too much, really; flights are almost miraculously cheap. It's hard to complain about something being less than luxurious when you can get halfway across the country for the price of taking someone out to a nice dinner. "The only area where technologists have failed to improve efficiency is in reducing the weight of passengers, says John Corl of Flight Sciences"