Take a private flight

Regarding Joan Kopczynski’s Nov. 30 letter complaining about the frustrations of airline travel:

While I appreciate her sentiments regarding poor service and frustration encountered during airline travel, I take offense with how she characterizes the average airline passenger. If I understand her correctly, it is her belief that only the privileged should be “catered to.”

Although I don’t consider myself a “middle-class slob,” and I’m not yet one of the “over-65 crowd,” I do agree that flying can be frustrating. However, isn’t it great though that “families with screaming children,” military personnel, working-class heroes, teenagers, grandparents, ailing passengers flying to seek medical services, babies traveling to meet their grandparents or grandparents making their first airline journey, veterans visiting the memorials in Washington, D.C., teens going to perform in various competitions or somebody like me who saves a little extra money from each paycheck to visit family or see some of this great world has the opportunity to fly anywhere in the world?

In order to avoid all of the hassles of airline travel, perhaps she and the other “high-class passengers” can rent a private plane serviced by “pretty young stewardesses.”

Janet Byrnes

Spokane Valley