What happened to that dazzle of flying? Those days in the sixties seventies early eighties, when flying was made to be glamorous, truly an experience and a half for everyone right up to economy class. The food was great the smiles from those fashionably dressed flight crews genuine, and the aircraft perfumed and spotless.
Came the increase of air travel. Higher demands larger supply and the drop in quality of service all the way through. Even checking in back in the days, was an enjoyable and friendly experience. Today airlines want you to check into a machine, the airports are cluttered, and everything seems to be on automatic mode. This the death of a great flying experience.
Unless for those who can afford to go first class, when the first class of today forty years ago reminded you of economy, the experience of flying today has been made redundant, as a simple means of getting you from point A to point B as your local bus does too.
More people flying more aircraft, more demand for air crews to break into their tasks faster, everything is faster, seemingly easier, less scruples, less quality as more of us fly fly away...
Aviation today is on automatic mode. The turn around for an aircraft, is much faster these days, more flights, more aircraft, less human resources especially on the ground, more overworked schedules. The need for faster delivery, fast fast fast..... As another airbus must get on it's way This is so much more evident with the low cost carriers, the McDonald's of the skies. . I tremendously dislike the term airbus, for psychologically in many peoples minds, it has become the way to operate an aircraft today. Less thrills, quick turn around, on schedule when possible. And off you go.
Global aviation growth. Asia, Americas, Africa, Middle East Europe everywhere. The fast demand in
An increasing fast world. And fast as you have noticed is a key word here.
Yet when a Malaysian aircraft disappears from the radar with some 240 people on board, and can't be found as in last year, and pilots commit suicide by murdering all their passengers on board by downing an aircraft, when human error still causes avoidable accidents, on better built and supposedly safer technology advanced planes, when you check into a highly cluttered airports and queue in queues much larger than taking a train or any other form of transport, you can't but ponder. Is this the price of higher demand, is this the price of fast a fast fast world ? As airline operators increasingly are eager to make higher profits, at the detriment of you and me.
All this colossus must and has to be revised soon. Air safety needs to quickly tackle all sorts of anomalies, and bring order and sanity to a sector fast derailing. Airlines need to start giving back and much more to all of us who keep them flying in the first place. Bringing back tough safety measures, amore dazzling service both on board or not, to mention but a few basic points. They need to captivate us all, as they once did twenty, forty and fifty years ago with a more serene, quality driven, inventive, comforting way to get us from point A to point B without truly and profoundly compromising our safety, integrity, and for some of us the joy of flying.... Flying as an amazing memorable experience...
