Posted by Alumni from The Atlantic
November 26, 2025
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy wants us to return to the golden age of air travel, when nobody got into a punching match for reclining a seat into someone else's lap. He says this golden age starts with us, and he has a whole campaign prepared! I assume it will involve more humane accommodations for travelers'or less harrowing working conditions for the flight attendants charged with both crowd control and safety. Or modernizing air-traffic control to make it safer and more efficient. Now to lower my tray table, take a sip from my tiny plastic cup dangerously overfilled with cranberry juice, and see what he has recommended. There's a video with footage of air travel seemingly from the 1960s' He is in a suit' And he wants us to dress 'with respect,' and 'go back to an era when we didn't wear pajamas to the airport'' Sometimes I wish I did not know the difference between correlation and causation. I think I would be happier. I would certainly have a lot more suggestions for... learn more