Allegiant Air: Affordable Flying, Sort of Air travel, it's no fun. Discount airlines claim to offer great prices, but then they nickel and dime you to death. It's the old "give 'em an inch and they'll take a mile" philosophy: we gave the airlines several bailouts—after 9/11, during the Global Financial Crisis (TARP, 2008), and during COVID—and every time they got money, they cut services and raised prices. Carry on bag? Now there's a fee. Checked bag? Used to be free, no longer. Snacks, sodas, cookies, pillows... they kept chipping away at the amenities until they were all gone. (And they shrank the seats, so now no one has any legroom. Yay!) The "good" news is: you can always buy the little things back. In the airline industry, you can "upgrade" as much as you can. That cheap ticket price? It's low-cost because you're basically flying Greyhound; you're in a bus with wings. You get where you're going quickly, just not comfortably. Oh, to be a member of the 1%, flying first or business class in luxury. Dare to dream, because I don't know about you, but I'm stuck in coach, or economy (if I'm lucky). #travel #fly #airline #humor #facts #funny