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A major airline is going to make you pay to recline your seat (www.thestreet.com)

submitted 1 week ago by cm0002@sh.itjust.works to c/canada@lemmy.ca

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This week, Canadian airline WestJet became one of the first to try to switch the ability to recline into a paid "perk" by announcing that it was reconfiguring 43 of its Boeing 737-8 MAX and 737-800 (BA) planes to have what it classifies as a "refreshed range of seating options."

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[-] TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Why should people be able to fly for cheap?

Air travel is the single biggest contributor to CO2 pollution that the average person produces. Environmentally speaking, air travel should more expensive.

And we have overtourism running rampant now precisely because air travel is now so cheap, destroying many local economies in tourism hot spots.

[-] Dionysus@leminal.space 5 points 6 days ago

Totally, only the ultra wealthy should be able to afford flying.

Those plebs crammed into economy are what's really killing the planet. That's why I'm glad I use paper straws so the CEO of Starbucks can fly 1000 miles a day on his private jet to work. RTO baby!