Airlines should perform maintenance checks on planes before boarding passengers to improve efficiency and reduce flight cancellations.

“My point about this is is why are we not checking the planes prior to boarding the passengers? Why do we have to go through the lies that you act like our plane is going to take off, that that bird is going to fly in the air, only to get in on that bird?”

The maintenance procedures for airlines are inefficient and should be shifted to happen before passengers board the aircraft.

“I feel like a lot of stuff with airlines the efficiency is backwards. Like everything they do could be more efficient if they just switch the policy entirely. Like get get the pilots on, get the flight attendants on, let's go through the maintenance checks, let's load the passengers from the back so”

Shane Gillis maintains that he always arrives at the airport two hours early to avoid the risk of missing his flights.

“I go I fly like an old person. I get there two hours early.”

Taking 6 a.m. flights is the most reliable way to avoid travel delays.

“There's not many locks in life. But in today's airline system, I know that that 6:00 a.m. it's going to be a [ __ ] to cancel it. or at least I'm gonna be in the air in the winter by 7 a.m.”

He believes blocking the merger between JetBlue and Spirit Airlines was a mistake that negatively impacted competition and consumer choices.

“What happened was they said, "Oh, it'll lead to higher fares and fewer flights." They believed that JetBlue was merely going to shut down Spirit. Well, they apparently don't understand the the economics of airlines. That's not what's going to happen.”

Air traffic control should be privatized to improve efficiency and remove dependence on federal appropriations.

“A private self-funded corporation could fix all these problems basically overnight. And they could probably do it with fewer employees, too.”

The current government shutdown is causing unnecessary airline travel issues.

“And so this shutdown is is bothering me because it we are we're going to have trouble with our guests.”

The current state of air travel is characterized by uncertainty and chaos exacerbated by the partial government shutdown.

“And air travel has been completely disrupted worldwide. And and not just worldwide, but but here in the US, the partial government shutdown is kind of adding to the uncertainty and the sense of chaos.”

H. Foley believes that stealing food items from an airport shop is worse than smoking in an airplane bathroom.

“that's up there with with you guys when you when you steal from the airports with the candy bars that's even worse now you don't have to kill it on the airport no I don't steal from you he would never get away yeah they got eyes on you the second you go to the candy aisle”

Ian Fidance claims that smoking in an airplane bathroom while using toilet paper to hide the smell is a justifiable and exciting mission.

“I had a layover in Minneapolis long flight didn't have a vape what are you gonna do can't leave the airport and come back in because of security you go to the bathroom you light a bernie you lay a little toilet paper on fire mask the smell take it you puffs take out a security toilet”