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Originally Posted by photon
It's not the entire pie, but a big enough portion that the everything hinges on that price. I said I agree with that part, it's your complaining about the complaining I'm talking about.
And we agree on why the differentiators are so trivial.. but then discussing those differentiators and why someone would choose one over the other based on the only available differentiators is somehow jumping the shark?
Choosing one airline over another (or rather talking about it) because one offers better entertainment is jumping the shark because airports in the US have longer wait times? I don't see how that follows.
Well sure, if this were a thread comparing air travel in Canada to elsewhere in the world, those would be the expected comments..
But that's like saying no one should discuss or lament the Flames current owners/players/situation because 5 other teams are worse off.
It's not like people are proposing revolts in the streets or for airline management to be pitted against bears in unarmed combat, they're saying "I don't like A because I get this thing I want on B for the same price".
What's more 1st world, people discussing how they choose their first world airline based on its food/entertainment offerings, or people complaining about people discussing how they choose their first world airline? 
"Fire/Keep Feaster and Vancouver sucks" discussions would sit pretty high on the 1st world problems scale. We happen to live in the first world though, and I don't think "discussing X or feeling Y is jumping the shark because someone somewhere else has it worse" is meaningful. At the very least it's off topic. |
OK I get it, and to me vastly different than what you were saying before. I don't get the econ 101 summary, but if your main thing is 'what is actually jumping the shark' that's fine. There's certainly others that fly more than me, but i fly enough that I have seen some serious problems, from mechanical to managing luggage to double booking every single seat on a flight, and on and on. In light of such problems (which actually I think have been cleaned up somewhat in Canada, in large part because of the competition that WJ provides) some stuff seems pretty trivial.
One of my GMG's I guess is how airline customers have evolved over the years. If I look over the past 10 or 15 years what has made travel less enjoyable is all the princess's who need to fly with their 4 crying kids, and or carry on 2 large bags each and or complain about the most petty of things and of course they must hover at the gate as if the plane will leave without them.
Lastly, I don't know what is a bigger 1st world problem between the two examples you compare but why is that relevant at all? The thread is about problems with WJ.