Airlines Need To Be Improved.

By Jack Rosenblum

Since 1914, airlines have been operating airplanes to transport passengers. But there are lots of problems with them like delays which happen to twenty five percent of flights, and the average delay time being one hour! Food wait times are also very long, with airline meals which average at 8 to 15 dollars per meal which is crazy because the food is very bad.

 A common incident on a plane is turbulence which injures about 58 people per year or just makes you bang your knee against the hard plastic on your seat. Speaking of hard plastic, nobody likes the hard plastic on your armrest or under you. My interviews found that this plastic was found most on the airlines American and Spirit. 

Also it sometimes is hard to find good seats where you want, and sometimes you can get a different spot from your travel companions . Owen Allen in 606 said “One time my family got seated across the plane from each other and we had to sit with strangers, but when we tried to switch seats they said that we couldn't”. 

Another problem with aviation is that flights are boring and it doesn't help that on some airlines there is no free wifi, no tvs and no other forms of entertainment. Also with some airlines if you don't give passengers a tv give us free wifi, and actually make it work. 

Charles Schrefer, from 606 said that when he flew Air Canada “Some of the screens were cracked, some had no sound, and some had a frozen screen.  

On top of all the hard plastics, the seats are just plain bad, and then air conditioning is broken 15 percent of the time.

 Also think about this, going on the Amtrak Acela costs as much as flying to Boston and on airlines, the cleaning is not good because they want the plane to be ready as fast as possible so in the small cracks gross stuff builds up. The Internet did not like easyJet, Ryanair, Wizz Air and FlyBe. After multiple of my interviews I noticed multiple people noted that Spirit airlines had very bad cleaning and one individual did not like American. Also According to BBC  “there were 0.001 passenger deaths per 100,000,000 miles onboard airlines, compared with 0.54 in passenger vehicles” So airplanes are also safer

Finally the airport, buying tickets, getting to and from the airport, your ears popping, and other things are mega headaches. In conclusion, airlines need to be improved because they have insane profit margins and insane prices.