In fairness, why would anyone here still fly? I take the fuckin train at this point. It's more expensive and it's monstrously inconvenient but fuck me if I'll ever get on a plane again voluntarily after what they've done.
I'm more afraid to fly now than I was during the panic after 9/11. Malice can be noticed and attacked directly, but the diversity obsession at every level of airplane building, maintenance, ATCs, pilot training, and the sheer humiliation of some foreigner fiddling with my bags and scanning me before I board is overwhelming, and is a poison you're not even allowed to treat properly.
Most of the lines that did US-Japan transPac routes stopped after the WuFlu. I've gone looking for a bulk carrier line that offered cabins on the Seattle-Osaka route and haven't seen any recently.
Do you not fly? The kiosks print luggage tags now and you put them on. Been like this for years. You can still do it "the old way" though.
In fairness, why would anyone here still fly? I take the fuckin train at this point. It's more expensive and it's monstrously inconvenient but fuck me if I'll ever get on a plane again voluntarily after what they've done.
I'm more afraid to fly now than I was during the panic after 9/11. Malice can be noticed and attacked directly, but the diversity obsession at every level of airplane building, maintenance, ATCs, pilot training, and the sheer humiliation of some foreigner fiddling with my bags and scanning me before I board is overwhelming, and is a poison you're not even allowed to treat properly.
There's no train to Japan
boat
Most of the lines that did US-Japan transPac routes stopped after the WuFlu. I've gone looking for a bulk carrier line that offered cabins on the Seattle-Osaka route and haven't seen any recently.
No. Fuck real id.
When it comes to international travel I guess I just do it the old way.
Like most of the countries across the world do.