It’s been six days since we got back from Vegas – guess I’ll start unpacking.

I’ve spent the time napping and pondering the crappiness of what used to be a nice experience.

Flying is starting to stink.

We purchased Hawaiian Airline’s “preferred seating”.

That means more leg room.

It was interesting to pay to enjoy what used to be free and normal a few years ago.

Back then you could get in and out without hanging all over the seat in front of you because your legs don’t bend in the angles needed to exit.

As a semi-disabled person, I protest.

It ain’t getting better.

Here’s the future…

Thing’s are going to get tighter.
I always love to deliver good news.

A new scientific survey says 42 percent of you folks would be likely to book a seat with less leg room if it meant getting a cheap fare.

You small and/or cheap folks are making life difficult for everyone else.

Cut it out.
Please.

The idea already has a name: “Economy Minus”.

It will be changed, I’m sure, into something positive.

The airlines would want to put a positive spin on it.
Maybe “cozy quarters” or “Love your knees” or something romantic.

This whole thing started when some blogger reported an unnamed major carrier was considering adopting a seat with a pitch of 30 inches or less.

Lemme help…

Pitch is the distance between the back of your seat and the back of the seat in front of you.

That includes the size of the seat cushion and the leg space.

The current space means, for most, your knees are rammed into the seat in front of you.
Lovely.

The government,which seems to regulate damn near everything, has no rules about seat space.

Only that there be enough so passengers can evacuate the plane in 90 seconds or less with half of the exits blocked.

For you young folks out there – there was a time when the seats would recline and you could sleep.
Hard to believe I know.

Not too many years ago when a plane was expecting a “bad landing” they’d tell you to assume a brace position by putting your head all the way down.
A pillow was optional.

Now, the brace position has changed to this because there’s no room to lean over.
A hard landing is sure going to mess up the pretty face.

But as long as people keeping give their approval by buying tickets it’s going to get worse.

Let’s not stop there.

If you can somehow get out of your seat to use the restroom, you may not fit there either.

From Airbus, which I have spanked before…

It has shown off a cabin design that gives passengers more room to stow their luggage but less room in the back-of-the-plane lavatory.

The changes in the interior design will begin in 2016 on the company’s A320 used by many U.S.-based carriers.

All of this started when airlines began charging for checked baggage so people are now trying to bring everything as a carry-on.

Instead of stopping that crap, they are with the flow.

To make more space, the A320 was redesigned two years ago to move the lavatories that were previously on either side of the aisle to the back of the plane.

They now share space with the food-preparing galley.

Nice, huh?
Bet the flight attendants love that.

The move freed up space to fit six extra seats.

But now, Airbus is saying the bathrooms take too much space away from the galley, so the latest modification squeezes the width of one of the bathrooms to increase the size of the galley.

No one is saying how much the lavatory will shrink under the new design.
Only that the narrower bathroom will be “equivalent” in size to the previous lavatory.

Bet they make it taller.

Traveling is beginning to suck more.
That should make you grumpy.

It does me.