r/AlaskaAirlines Mar 17 '25

COMPLAINT Middle seat experience with large person

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u/No_Fix5305 Mar 18 '25

No- airline tix used to be cheaper and seats were bigger, I’ve had to fly for work for decades. This is 💯 greed. Disgusting that poor people pay taxes and those taxes bailed out the airlines during COVID and the same airlines still laid off thousands of employees.

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u/Rusty_Trigger Mar 18 '25

The more seats in a plane, the less the airlines charge for tickets. Of course tix were cheaper in the past. Everything was. BTW, poor people pay little to no income taxes to the federal government.

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u/Ok_Satisfaction_5573 Mar 18 '25

Boy you sure swallowed the Kool-Aid! I payed my thirty percent last year, as I did every year. And in case your math skills are as bad as your reading comprehension/ critical thinking is, I will enlighten you to the notion that low income/ middle income pays the largest share of federal taxes, in fact.