Soaring future for cheap flights?
You know - suddenly I'm detecting a particular theme rippling through the zeitgeist. It's the middle classes turning nastier and more selfish and more begrudging as time goes on. They're seeing more and more what was their preserve going to the lower classes and they can't abide it. Now they've got a new stick to beat everyone one they don't happen to like much - this pseudo concern for the environment. That it's noticeable that only a small few of them had before. (Or else we wouldn't be in this mess now would we?) So it's A-OK for rich corporate executives to swan to and fro across the world in half-full business class cabins (and run up huge expenses that eventually mean end customers have to pay more than necessary for whatever goods and services the execs represent) but it's not OK for completely full planes of proles to go on foreign holidays. Let the proles have their hols and the execs can do video conferencing instead, and the middle middle classes can go to Cleethorpes and Blackpool etc. for their hols. Then everybody is happy.
[There was a documentary on rubbish collection and recycling on Channel Four a few weeks ago. Burnt into my memory is that at one point where the film makers visited a recycling centre - and showed a whole line of 'Chelsea Tractors' queued up to dump off their recycling... can you say 'contradiction'.]
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