First comes news that American Airlines will start charging coach passengers $8 for blankets and pillows (but you get to take them home and you get a coupon for $10 off a $30 purchase at Bed Bath & Beyond!), then we hear that Southwest is being investigated by the FAA for a third time in two years. I still think it’s safer for me to fly rather than drive, and no one offers me a pillow and blanket when I’m in the car. So, really, I don’t think it’s all that bad.
Well, with Southwest being investigated it may not be safer. And my own pillows and blankets are always better than the dinky ones you get on airlines… which are impossibly to keep on, anyway, without awkwardly imposing yourself on the person next to you. Give me driving any day.