What's with all the airplane fighting?

I have seen numerous made-up narratives pushed by the media. If they wanted to be pushing a narrative about subway fights, bus fights, train fights, cruise ship fights, or any other thing they have mountains of examples to choose from in order to give us day after day another "cruise ship fight" or "cruise ship infidelity" or "cruise ship sickness". Why look - another cruise ship passenger is sick. What's with all of this sickness on cruise ships?

If you can get the government to respond to the narrative, you've got more toothpaste ads and deodorant ads to run alongside that new story, plus the aftermath of the law of unintended consequences.

If you are a publisher you market stories that will sell the best. By observation, terrorist rampages are the best sellers, all out of proportion to the relative risks and deaths. Heart disease, cancer, accidents, etc. just don't sell like terror. About the only thing that can compete with terror is an upper-class blondie child kidnapped and raped multiple times a day. The black kids and poor kids - those kidnaps and rapes just aren't news.

Parcher has an interesting observation. Social media demonstrates what kind of stories will sell and what kind of stories don't, and is itself a field to mine directly.

What kind of basis do we have to make a statement that there are more fights now? We don't. And the article cited in his post above demonstrates complaints about this very thing are down significantly.

I'm pretty disgusted by people I encounter that parrot the latest infotainment meme as if that shows they are well informed. They're not telling me what they think they're telling me.
 
MRC_Hans said:
I have flown a total distance amounting to about twenty times around Earth. I have never seen a fight. I have never had a serious problem. I have had my baggage delayed two times. I have had my flight cancelled and have had to book another flight once.

Seriously ...

Hans
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I am quite happy for you!!!! (really!!!!):)
 
MRC_Hans said:
Vegas, no. Denmark to ... Bavaria, USA, China, Taiwan ... such stuff.

Business travellers, mostly,

Hans
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In all fairness that could explain why....... Businesses don't often work with other businesses that treat them poorly.
 
Pee Cup Lady and United Airlines are telling different stories. One of them is telling lies.

The Washington Post said:
United acknowledged that Harper ended up peeing in a cup but says it was her decision — not the airline’s...

“Initial reports from the Mesa Airlines flight attendants indicate that Ms. Harper attempted to visit the lavatory on descent and was instructed to remain seated with the seat belt fastened, per FAA regulations. At no point during the flight did flight attendants suggest that Ms. Harper use cups instead of the lavatory.”...

When she tried to explain that she had an overactive bladder and would either need to use the restroom or use a cup, she writes, a flight attendant handed her two cups...

Nicole Harper says crew members escorted her to the restroom to empty the cups and stated that they would be filing a report and calling in a hazmat team to clean the row where she had been sitting, treating her like she “had committed a crime.”...
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...-stories_gridlock-united-840pm:homepage/story
 
crescent said:
And selective coverage. It has people's interest right now, so the news outlets show whatever footage comes their way.
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Yeah no doubt part of it, maybe a huge part, but wonder if that's all there is to it or if more fights are on the rise...
 
bigred said:
Yeah no doubt part of it, maybe a huge part, but wonder if that's all there is to it or if more fights are on the rise...
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Fights may be on the rise a little, if from nothing more than all the press. People show up primed to be angry and offended because the news coverage has led them to expect that.

And seating gets tighter all the time.

That said, air travel is cheaper than ever. One comment in this thread references flying in the 1970's. Sure it was nice, roomier, hot food on most flights - Yay! But the prices were astronomical by current standards.

We get what we pay for, and few people seem willing to spend money to get better service.
 
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