What is this "My Country (industry) Right or Wrong" attitude?
Aviation has some serious problems in its ability to deliver an acceptable level of service, as many of us in the industry surely acknowledge. Why all the slanging off when someone dares to criticise.
Lets face it. 25 years ago it might still have been a miracle to be able to fly to far flung places in a few hours. Now it is mostly a pretty miserable experience. I am sure I am not alone in saying that I find most of my positioning flights to be a pretty poor experience, when I am sitting back in cattle class. In contrast to when I am at work, sitting up the front of my aging freighter, which even after many years in the business, I still enjoy.
Surely the correct response is to acknowledge this, and start to fix it.
Not to shoot the messanger.