MoxieLife

5 Simple Things To Improve Air Travel

Our daughter was supposed to come home on Sunday night, but her plane was delayed and she would have missed her connecting flight. The United ticket woman tried to move her to another airport to get a flight into our area, but she couldn't find any flights flying into our airport. So, she had to wait an extra day and go then. Not a big deal really, but what if you had a life you had to get back to it could be a huge inconvenience. It seems like we have been flying for years now and the service has just degraded year after year.

I have some simple solutions that airlines could use to make it better for everyone:

1. Don't overbook your flights, people who pay for tickets want to make sure they have seats. It isn't fun to land at at your connecting airport to wonder if you have a seat on your next flight. That kind of anxiousness leads to unreasonable behavior. Book the flights to capacity, but not over.
2. Be helpful to your passengers. Not everyone that flies is a seasoned traveler and they may need more direction. They probably don't know your code names for things and certainly don't know where to go. Perhaps we should mark unseasoned travelers or seasoned travelers with little flags so personnel know who they are talking to.
3. Fly when you say you are going to fly. In the age of space travel, timed traffic lights, and computer capacity it seems that you would be able to be on time or you would at least understand that it impacts everything when you are not.
4. Stop charging for everything. Separate charges infuriate customers. Charge a ticket price and include baggage, a soda, and the soap in the restroom. These are simple things that people should just get as part of flying.
5. Lastly, stop complaining that you aren't making any money. Find ways to cut costs in your organization and be quiet about it already. People don't feel sorry for you and they just want to get where they are going. They paid to fly with you and you can just keep your personal problems to yourself.

I know that these changes are not something that airlines will do anytime soon, but it helps to share... even when their heads are in the clouds.

A much better day

Today is a better day. I am currently processing cucumbers into relish, looking for bread and butter pickle recipes, had a friend call to say thank you for a gift of vegies and eggs, ate a big brunch of eggs and potatoes O'brian, and my Sparkly Girl comes home from her trip to California tonight at midnight.

Good days and bad days, it seems as if life is made up of both kinds. Luckily I live in such a place that I can obsess a little (thank you for indulging me) into my bad days.

Anyone need a cucumber?

I know it will take time... just how long

Today I got the check from my dad's death benefit. Most of it will go to pay the funeral home. It's funny even after getting the check I have those moments when I swear he is still alive. I know that they say it will take time, but I miss him terribly.

It happens at the oddest moments, yesterday I was looking out the window talking to my husband, when I thought "he's dead". It is like I have to tell myself over and over that he really is dead. Like I am convincing myself.

I know it takes time. I know that this is part of the process. I know eventually it won't hurt, but right now it does.

In two weeks our only daughter is going to college. She is only going four hours away, but it seems like farther. We, like my dad and I, have a great relationship. Close friends as well as mother daughter. It just seems like so much to lose all at once. Of course I am telling her that I want her to do everything she can, experience life fully, take every option and run with it, but a little part of me just wants to hold on.

Life is messy and hard and yet everyday I put myself together to face my clients, the grocery clerk, the friend who calls about her problems, and inside I am just sad.

Does what we think really matter?

I like to read blogs. I might even like to read yours. Does what we blather on about really matter? Some of you have real focus to your blogs. You write about crafts, adopting a child, dance, photography, current events, or where you are at any given moment. Some of us just write the things that pop out of our heads. I should say we spew ideas out into the world for others to digest. The question is does it all matter? Years ago we didn't have a public way to share and now we do; is that a good thing?

Just curious. It is hotter then heck in the South and my brain is a bit fried. - Keep blathering, by the way because I like reading it!