Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Give the Airlines the Finger. Drive and Dive Florida Instead

First the airlines reduced the checked baggage allowance from 70 pounds per bag to 50. Then they started charging for that second bag. Then the first. Recently, one airline attempted to start charging for carry on bags. Could it get worse? Yes. In Europe, some airlines will charge you a whole euro if you want to go to the bathroom on flights under one hour.

Then there is the hassle of having to check in hours early, and waiting in endless lines at security — while a TSA employee stands by menacingly with a machine that is all too reminiscent of one of those alien probes from science fiction. And your reward for doing all of this? Several hours in a tin tube, crammed like a sardine into a too-small seat and having to pay for your pitiful dry sandwich, peanuts and soda.

Read whole story at Florida Scuba News

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