When I was in 20s and 30s (1990s and 2000s), I frequently took an airplane for both domestic and foreign trips. Those days the travel by an airplane was not hard for me at all.
There are many reasons for me to say that.
The biggest reason is the price. Since there were many flights that were competing in prices, it was easy for me to find the reasonable priced airline tickets. Besides, most airline companies allowed to reschedule or refund up to a certain date before departure. I used to buy an open ticket so that I could freely change my return date. Currently, most airplane tickets are non-refundable. An airplane ticket is not a cheap shopping. If you want to get refund, you need to pay extra to buy an insurance to cover that expense.
The second biggest reason is the airport security system. I never felt uncomfortable for the security check those days. Nowadays the security check got much stricter than before, which makes many people pissed off by just going through security check. It is not fun to be surrounded by many angry people in the airport.
And the last reason is about pets. Those days we didn’t sit with pets in cabin. Recently, some American airline companies allow pets to sit with the owner in cabin seat. I cannot imagine that, but it is true.
My daughter is allergic to pets’ hair. In worst cases, pets’ hair affects her throat and she has hard time to breath.
Today I talked with the airline company about my daughter’s pets’ hair allergy. The representative input a note in their system about that, but she says it does not guarantee that any pets won’t sit next to our seats. I guess it is up to our luck. I prayed the support from my family spirits.
It is a universal law that everything has been changing. I cannot do anything for the change. Maybe I am not the only one to feel that way. We like certain changes and dislike certain changes, but we cannot do anything for that. All we can do is to adjust ourselves for the change, or take an appropriate action for the change to protect us.
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