Remember when?

Remember when it actually used to be a pleasure to fly? Something you looked forward to?

Airlines are taking many measures to reduce the excess weight they carry.

It would appear that amongst the cost-cutting exercises that have gradually made it almost miserable to fly, some of the things they have not done (yet) are:

1. Get rid of the tilt mechanism that allows the seat in front of you to invade your space with little or no real benefit for the person in the seat (invariably they then proceed to spend the remainder of the flight sitting forward while you have their headrest in your face and your knees crushed.

2. Charging for fat people. Why, when I am of average weight, do I get charged gazzillions of €€€€$$$$ if a piece of luggage is a few kg over while someone can happily board the plane with many kg of lard hanging about their person?

3. Those snack packs with the notice on that says "May contain nuts" when the label of the product says "Peanuts". Invariably these are covered is some form of toxic slurry that is intended to be "Honey-roasted" but is more like the contents of a tanker crash in the corn belt. I mean, what IS the point of expending all the energy you have left in trying to open a bag that contains 6-8 nuts?

4. Pointless pillows that could be better used squished up to their real size and used as tampons or by first-aiders on a sports field or in a boxing ring.

5. Do Business and First Class (or whatever dreary self-important name these are ascribed) REALLY need champagne?

6. Cans of drink that contain enough liquid to keep a flea alive for five minutes yet litre bottles of alcohol that are more expensive than the duty-free.

Any other suggestions for this list?